One week since Islam Khalil’s bail of 50,000 Egyptian pounds (US$5,510) was paid, the 27-year-old survivor of enforced disappearance and torture has yet to be released.

Indonesian police suspended their investigation into a defamation complaint against human rights activist Haris Azhar.

Egypt’s National Security Agency subjected 14-year-old Aser Mohamed to enforced disappearance for 34 days. The boy claims that he was tortured and ill-treated to confess to offences he did not commit.

Police have summoned six individuals, including two staff of a human rights organization, in relation to a criminal investigation into a “Speak for Freedom” event held on 31 July. All six are expected to report to the police station on 31 August.

Dmytro Koroliov was released on 2 August after spending one year in secret detention in the Security Service of Ukraine compound in Kharkiv, northeast Ukraine.

Authorities must urgently release five men believed to be in secret detention in the Security Service’s compound in Kharkiv, northeast Ukraine.

Imprisoned Chinese Human Rights Defender Yang Maodong (better known by his pen name Guo Feixiong) ended his hunger strike on 18 August after being moved to another prison and promised humane treatment.

Sunday Chucks Obasi (30) was abducted in Amuko Nnewi Anambra State on 16 August by armed men suspected to be Nigerian security agents who had a vehicle with a government registration plate. He was injured during the incident. His whereabouts remain unknown.

Sunday Chucks Obasi (30) was abducted in Amuko Nnewi Anambra State on 16 August by armed men suspected to be Nigerian security agents who had a vehicle with a government registration plate. He was injured during the incident. His whereabouts remain unknown.

Trần Huỳnh Duy Thức, a human rights defender and prisoner of conscience, serving a 16-year sentence has been transferred to a remote prison in northern Viet Nam.