Urgent Action: Prominent defender must be released
The final hearing in the trial against Oyub Titiev will take place on 11 March.
Urgent Action: Prisoner of conscience denied medical access
Hajer Mansoor Hassan, 50, held in Isa Town Detention Centre for Women in Bahrain, is being denied adequate medical care.
Urgent Action update: Human rights lawyer at risk of torture
Yu Wensheng has been indicted and his case has been transferred from the prosecution to the court awaiting a trial date.
Urgent Action update: Indigenous human rights defenders at risk
Armed men abducted Mexican Indigenous human rights defenders, Obtilia Eugenio Manuel and Hilario Cornelio Castro.
Urgent Action outcome: Jordanian journalist released
On 12 February 2019, Jordanian journalist and poet, Tayseer Salman al-Najjar was released from al-Wathba prison.
Urgent Action: Saudi activist held in solitary confinement
Woman human rights defender, Nassima al-Sada, was placed in solitary confinement since early February 2019.
Urgent Action: Baloch activist held incommunicado
On 26 December 2018, Emirati security forces detained Pakistani national Rashid Hussain Brohi without an arrest warrant.
Urgent Action: Journalist harassed to silence dissent
Maria Ressa, executive editor of online news outlet Rappler and press freedom advocate, was arrested.
Urgent Action update: Pre-trial detention for human rights defender
On 9 February, a judge ordered the pre-trial detention of human rights defender and lawyer Ezzat Ghoniem for 45 days.