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Urgent Action update: APAA communities attacked and forcibly evicted

Rangers from the Uganda Wildlife Authority have been carrying out forced evictions of communities in the Apaa area.

1st update on UA 96/18 issued 30/04/2019

Urgent Action update: Journalist granted provisional release

Journalist Amade Abubacar was granted provisional release from Mieze Prison in Pemba City on 23 April.

5th update on UA 01/19 issued 30/04/2019

Urgent Action outcome: Mikhail Tsakunov released, trial ongoing

Prisoner of conscience Mikhail Tsakunov was released under travel restrictions, after a year in pre-trial detention.

1st update on UA 90/18 issued 29/04/2019

Urgent Action: Journalist charged with spreading false news

Casimir Kpedjo, the managing editor of the newspaper ‘New Economy’, was charged with publishing “false information".

UA 53/19 issued 29/04/2019

Urgent Action: End attacks against human rights defenders

Cristina Palabay was warned by an anonymous source that her and several others are targeted to be killed this year.

UA 54/19 issued 29/04/2019

Urgent Action correction: Activist risks charges over forced ‘confession’

Suha Jbara was released after spending over two months in detention where she says she was tortured by interrogators.

Amendment to 3rd update on UA 203/18 issued 22/01/2019

Urgent Action update: Chinese labour activist held incommunicado

Wei Zhili, editor of “New Generation” (xinshengdai), was transferred to secret incommunicado detention on 20 April 2019.

1st update on UA 37/19 issued 26/04/2019

Urgent Action update: Four umbrella movement leaders imprisoned

Four leaders of the 2014 Hong Kong pro-democracy Umbrella Movement protests sentenced to 8 to 16 months in prison.

2nd update on UA 191/18 issued 25/04/2019

Urgent Action: Thousands in need of urgent protection

People from Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities in Bojayá, Chocó face live-threatening forced displacement risks.

UA 52/19 issued 18/04/2018

Urgent Action: Yemeni academic held incommunicado

Professor and political figure Youssef al-Bawab has been held in incommunicado detention since 2 April 2019.

UA 51/19 issued 18/04/2019