Urgent Action Update: Saudi Arabian writer Zuhair Kutbi released
On 23 June, Saudi Arabian writer Dr Zuhair Kutbi was released after serving two years in prison.
Urgent Action: Prisoner of conscience in Egypt dies in detention
Prisoner of conscience and Nubian activist Mohamed Saleh Sorour (aka Gamal Sorour) died in custody in Aswan on 4 November
Urgent Action: Call for a moratorium on executions in Nevada
The State of Nevada is set to carry out its first execution in over 11 years. Prisoner due to be executed on 14th Nov.
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Urgent Action good news: Human rights lawyer, activists released in Tanzania
Thirteen health and human rights activists released, after the court found there was insufficient evidence against them
Urgent Action: Rights lawyer detained without official charge in China
Sixty year old human rights lawyer criminally detained for nearly a month without any official information on the charges
Urgent Action: Ohio to execute 69-year-old ‘state-raised’ man
Alva Campbell, aged 69, is due to be executed in Ohio on 15 November. The governor can commute the death sentence.
Urgent Action: Man seized in Libya held incommunicado
A Libyan man facing capital charges in the USA was seized by US forces in Libya on 29 October and taken to a ship
Urgent Action Update: Environmental rights defender to appeal suspended sentence in Madagascar
Raleva has been released after being handed a two-year suspended sentence. He is appealing the sentence.
Urgent Action update: Drop charges against human rights defender in Bahrain
Bahraini woman human rights defender Ebtisam al-Saegh was released, but remains at risk of detention.