Urgent Action Update: Court upholds death sentences of two men in Egypt
The Supreme Military Court of Appeals upheld the death sentences of two men, who are now at imminent risk of execution.
Urgent Action: Students detained for anti-war protest in Turkey
11 students from Istanbul’s Boğaziçi University, who attended a small peaceful campus protest remain in police custody.
Urgent Action Good News: Alabama, USA ends pursuit of 2nd execution attempt
An agreement signed on 27 March means that Alabama will not pursue another death warrant for Doyle Hamm.
Asylum-seekers in the Israel and Palestinian Occupied Territories at risk of deportation or detention
Thousands of asylum-seekers are at risk of either being forced to go to Rwanda or Uganda or being indefinitely detained.
Urgent Action: Woman detained for reading opposition website in Kazakhstan
Police have threatened bloggers, activists and members of the public with prosecution for supporting the opposition party
Urgent Action: 10 year death row case in Vietnam pushed for execution
Ho Duy Hai was sentenced to death in December 2008 after being convicted of plundering property and murder.
Urgent Action: Four activists arbitrarily detained in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Four youth activists were arrested on 30 December 2017, but have yet to be brought to court nor notified of the charges
Urgent Action Update: Swedish doctor denied access to bookseller in China
A Swedish doctor has been denied access to Gui Minhai, who is urgently in need of medical care.
Urgent Action Update: Human rights defender’s detention extended in Russia
The pre-trial detention of Oyub Titiev, a prisoner of conscience has been extended for a further two months, until 9 May.
Urgent Action: Singapore sets second execution in a week
The execution of Hishamrudin Bin Mohd scheduled for 16 March, a week after Singapore’s first known execution of 2018.