Urgent Action: Three human rights defenders on hunger strike in Iran
Iranian women human rights defenders and prisoners of conscience started a hunger strike on 3 February in protest
Urgent Action: Diagnosed with cancer, execution scheduled in USA
Doyle Hamm, due to be executed after 30 years on death row, has received a stay of execution, but the state has appealed
Urgent Action: Arbitrary arrests following state of emergency in the Maldives
Five people have been arrested since the Government of Maldives declared a State of Emergency on 5 February 2018
Urgent Action: Health fears for detained Hong Kong bookseller in China
Gui Minhai was on a train headed to Beijing to seek formal diagnosis for a neurological condition when he was seized
Urgent Action: Bombing near indigenous territory in Chocó, Colombia
Nearby communities are currently forcibly displaced as fear of new operations threaten the population.
Urgent Action: At least 14 people killed during a party in Brazil
At least 14 people were shot dead and other nine were injured while enjoying a party in Cajazeiras, on 27th January
Urgent Action Update: Turkish medical association leaders detained
Police detained 11 members of the Turkish Medical Association’s Central Council as part of a criminal investigation
Urgent Action Good News: Peaceful protesters and activists released in Egypt
Human rights activist and former Prisoner of Conscience Mahienour el-Masry and labour activist Moatasem Medhat acquitted
Urgent Action: Execution reset in Texas, USA, despite delusional disorder
John Battaglia is due to be executed on 1 February, after trial court judge rejected the opinions of three psychologists
Urgent Action Update: Administrative detention of lawmaker renewed in Israel
Israel renews the administrative detention, without charge or trial, of female Palestinian leader