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Urgent Action Update: Prisoner of conscience in Bahrain denied medication
Hassan Mshaima one of 11 jailed prominent Bahraini opposition activists, is being denied adequate healthcare in detention
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Urgent Action: Two indigenous activists face life imprisonment in India
Two activists have been arrested for their role in the resistance to forced acquisition of land for a steel plant
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Urgent Action: Opposition member alleges torture in Sudan prison
Radwan Daoud alleges that he has been subjected to torture while in the custody in Khartoum
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Urgent Action Update: Human rights defender’s appealed sentence upheld in Bahrain
Two-year prison sentence upheld against human rights defender and prisoner of conscience Nabeel Rajab
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Urgent Action: More activists detained for Liu Xiaobo memorial
Activists have been detained due to their participation in the July 2017 memorial for late Nobel Peace Prize laureate
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Urgent Action: Human rights defender detained in Chechnya
On 9 January, police arbitrarily arrested Chechen human rights defender Oyub Titiev. He remains in detention.
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Urgent Action: Two journalists face up to 14 years in Myanmar prison
Two journalists are facing up to 14 years in prison in connection with their peaceful journalistic activities
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Urgent Action: Environmental activists arbitrarily jailed in Cambodia
Two environmental activists were arrested in Cambodia for filming two vessels they suspected of illegally exporting sand.
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Urgent Action: Mother loses custody of kids for son's long hair in Russia
Russian authorities have removed seven children from their adoptive mother after she allowed their hair to grow long.
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End Action: Poland's President approves judicial overhaul bills
On 8 December, Poland’s Parliament passed two bills which increase the government’s control of the judiciary.