Urgent Action: Detained online activist alleges torture in prison
Soro Tangboho alias Carton noir, an outspoken online activist, was arbitrarily arrested on 8 November 2018.
Urgent Action outcome: Sentenced to one year in prison for posting Facebook video
Agustinus Yolemal, a Papuan pro-independence activist was sentenced to 1 year’s imprisonment.
Urgent Action: Labour rights activists at risk of further torture
Iranian labour rights activists Esmail Bakhshi and Sepideh Gholian are at grave risk of further torture.
Urgent Action: TV producer held in North Korea for 50 years
Former TV producer from South Korea not allowed to return to his home country after arriving involuntarily to North Korea
Urgent Action: Forty-seven students held incommunicado, one killed
Forty-seven students of Darfur origin remain in incommunicado detention after security agents arrested them in raids.
Urgent Action: Activist arbitrarily detained for almost 6 months
Peter Biar Ajak, a prominent South Sudanese academic and activist, has been arbitrarily for almost six months.
Urgent Action: Human rights defender under house arrest
On 23 January, Anastasia Shevchenko was put under house arrest and may face up to six years in prison if convicted.
Urgent Action outcome: Mauritanian anti-slavery activists released
Two anti-slavery activists Biram Dah Abeid and Abdellahi el Housein Mesoud were released from Nouakchott civil Prison.
Urgent Action: Canadian sentenced to death in a one-day retrial
Robert Schellenberg, a Canadian national, was sentenced to death after being convicted of drug trafficking at his retrial
Urgent Action: Two activists killed among escalating violence
On 17 January, unidentified armed men attacked demonstrators in Amatán, Chiapas state, southern Mexico.