Shakthika Sathkumara was arrested for writing a short story and sharing it on his Facebook profile.

Buzainafu Abudourexiti continues to be held in incommunicado detention after she was suddenly detained in March 2017.

Prisoners of conscience jailed solely because of their peaceful campaigning against discriminatory forced veiling laws.

Ibrahim Ezz El-Din, a housing rights researcher with an NGO, was arrested by security forces and forcibly disappeared.

On 16 July, COPINH reported new attacks that affected at least 25 families of the community of Río Blanco, Honduras.

Yang Zhengjun, a prominent workers’ rights activist has been held incommunicado since 8 January 2019.

Larry Swearingen has been on death row in Texas, USA since 2000 and is scheduled to be executed on 21 August 2019.

On 15 July 2019, Michael Rial Christopher, South Sudanese newspaper editor was taken off a flight to Kenya and arrested.

Quelvin Jimenez reported that a group of people, carrying weapons, disrupted a meeting of the Xinca Indigenous people.

Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi, a prominent filmmaker, has been formally charged after being detained for more than three months.