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Urgent Action: Prominent defender must be released

The final hearing in the trial against Oyub Titiev will take place on 11 March.

4th update on UA 5/18 issued 22/02/2019

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.

UA 23/19 issued 22/02/2019

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.

3rd update on UA 19/18 issued 22/02/2019

Urgent Action update: Indigenous human rights defenders at risk

Armed men abducted Mexican Indigenous human rights defenders, Obtilia Eugenio Manuel and Hilario Cornelio Castro.

4th update on UA 63/10 issued 20/02/2019

Urgent Action outcome: Jordanian journalist released

On 12 February 2019, Jordanian journalist and poet, Tayseer Salman al-Najjar was released from al-Wathba prison.

3rd update on UA 112/16 issued 21/02/2019

Urgent Action: Saudi activist held in solitary confinement

Woman human rights defender, Nassima al-Sada, was placed in solitary confinement since early February 2019.

UA 21/19 issued 20/02/2019

Urgent Action: Baloch activist held incommunicado

On 26 December 2018, Emirati security forces detained Pakistani national Rashid Hussain Brohi without an arrest warrant.

UA 22/19 issued 20/02/2019

Urgent Action: Journalist harassed to silence dissent

Maria Ressa, executive editor of online news outlet Rappler and press freedom advocate, was arrested.

UA 20/19 issued 15/02/2019

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.

2nd update on UA 69/18 issued 15/02/2019