Urgent Action good news: Activist released on bail after months in detention
Shahidul Alam, photographer and outspoken social activist, has been freed on permanent bail after 100 days behind bars.
Urgent Action: Opposition youth leader still detained one year on
Opposition youth leader Christian Lumu Lukusa has been in arbitrary detention since 22 November 2017.
Urgent Action: Workers arrested for trying to set up trade union
Three factory workers and an NGO worker have been arrested for attempting to set up a trade union in China.
Urgent Action update: NGO worker prison visit denied for months
Lee Ming-che, first foreign NGO worker detained after China’s new Foreign NGO Management Law came into effect.
Urgent Action: Activists’ whereabouts unknown after arrest
Activists are being held incommunicado at an unknown location in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
Urgent Action update: Acquitted former child soldier remains jailed
Former child solider Aung Ko Htwe was acquitted but remains in prison serving two years and six months on other charges.
Urgent Action: Health of prisoner of conscience critical
Nguyễn Văn Túc health is quickly deteriorating to the point where he is fainting on a daily basis.
Urgent Action: Nine umbrella movement leaders to stand trial
Nine leaders of the 2014 Hong Kong pro-democracy protests are being charged with three vague and ambiguous offences.
Urgent Action update: Prison sentence upheld for mosque noise complaint
The High Court upheld prison sentence for Meliana, convicted of blasphemy after complaining about loudspeaker at Mosque.
Urgent Action: Lawyer detained in undisclosed location
Human rights lawyer, Hoda Abdelmoniem, arrested on 1 November 2018 after State Security forces broke into her apartment.