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.
Urgent Action update: Indigenous rights defenders disappeared
Mexican Indigenous human rights defenders Obtilia Eugenio Manuel and Hilario Cornelio Castro disappeared while traveling.
Urgent Action update: Prisoner of conscience ill-treated in prison
Taiwanese activist Lee Ming-che has been given rotten food and insufficient clothing in his freezing prison cell.
Urgent Action: Danish Jehovah’s witness jailed for his faith
Danish Jehovah’s Witness Dennis Christensen found guilty of “organizing activities of an extremist organisation".
Urgent Action: Sixty-two activists, protesters arbitrarily held
Sixty-two people including activists from the Independence Movement of Cabinda were arrested.
Urgent Action: Demand transfer for native American activist
Native American activist Leonard Peltier imprisoned for over 40 years despite concerns over the fairness of his trial.
Urgent Action : Poet held over poem calling for government reform
Abdirahman Ibrahim Adan, a poet in Somaliland, has been in detention since 12 January.
Urgent Action update: Over two thousand people risk forced eviction
The Deep Sea Community in Nairobi, Kenya is once again at imminent risk of forced evictions.
Urgent Action update: Detained journalist denied family visits
Journalist Amade Abubacar was transferred from the Macomia district prison to Mieze prison in Pemba district.