Urgent Action: Three face jail for peaceful protest
The trial against Yan Sidorov, Vladislav Mordasov and Viacheslav Shashmin is expected to start in May.
Urgent Action: Human rights defender under house arrest
Human rights defender Serikzhan Bilash has been under house arrest since 10 March.
Urgent Action: Former prosecutor general risks torture
Rashitjon Kadirov and 12 co-defendants are standing trial in closed-door criminal proceedings.
Urgent Action: Human rights defender on hunger strike
Ahmed Mansoor has been on hunger strike for over three weeks in protest of his prison conditions and his unfair trial.
Urgent Action: Transgender woman held in all-male prison
19-year-old transgender woman human rights defender, arbitrarily detained in the all-male Mazra’at Tora prison.
Urgent Action update: Eight Lebanese men await verdict
On 3 April 2019, eight Lebanese men appeared before the state security Chamber of the Federal Appeal Court in Abu Dhabi.
Urgent Action: Jerusalemite journalist at risk of deportation
Palestinian photojournalist Mustafa al-Kharouf has been arbitrarily detained at Givon prison in Ramle, in central Israel.
Urgent Action good news: Arbitrarily detained Egyptian activist released
Egyptian activist Islam Khalil was released on probation after more than a year in arbitrary detention.
Urgent Action: Activist rearrested on fabricated charges
Azerbaijani activist Bayram Mammadov was detained on 30 March and sentenced to 30 days of administrative detention.
Urgent Action update: Detained journalist yet to be charged
On 5 April, Journalist Amade Abubacar will have spent 90 days in detention. He has yet to be formally charged.