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Urgent Action Correction: Human rights defender life in danger

On 6 July unknown men broke into Danelly Estupiñan house violating its door security while she was not at home.

Correction on 1st Update on UA 91/19 issued 12/08/2019

Urgent Action: Activist detained a year without trial

Đoàn Thị Hồng was unlawfully arrested in September 2018 and has been detained without trial.

UA 117/19 Issued 06/09/2019

Urgent Action Update: Activist released on bail, still facing charges

Amnesty International continues to call on the authorities to immediately drop all charges against Guy Marius Sagna.

1st Update on UA 109/19 Issued 06/09/2019

Urgent Action Good News: Deported mother allowed return to her family

Vanessa Gómez Cueva, a Peruvian mother of three who was deported 7 months ago received permission to return to Argentina.

1st Update on UA 039/19 Issued 05/09/2019

Urgent Action: Qatari father and son disappeared

The family of two Qatari men lost all contact with them as the two men travelled through Saudi Arabia to visit relatives.

UA 114/19 Issued 03/09/2019

Urgent Action Good News: Prominent Bedouin leader released

Human rights defender and prominent Bedouin leader Sheikh Sayyah Abu Mdeighim al-Turi was released from Maasiyahu Prison.

1st Update on UA 04/19 Issued 03/09/2019

Urgent Action Update: Harassment of severely ill ex-MP continues

A former MP who has suffered continued harassment by security forces, suffered a stroke following his arrest on 6 August.

1st Update on UA 110/19 Issued 03/09/2019

Urgent Action Update: Human rights defender facing bogus charges

Serikzhan Bilash is being prosecuted simply for defending the human rights of ethnic Kazakhs in China.

1st Update on UA 46/19 Issued 16/08/2019

Urgent Action Update: Detention continues for over a hundred persons

Scores of people continue detained in Nicaragua after more than one year from the beginning of the human rights crisis.

2nd Update on UA 82/19 Issued 30/08/2019

Urgent Action: NGO workers detained for ‘subversion’

Human rights defenders Cheng Yuan, Liu Yongze, and Wu Gejianxiong have been placed under incommunicado detention.

UA 113/19 Issued 22/08/2019