Urgent Action good news: Indonesian activist released, appeal against conviction ongoing
Environmental activist Heri Budiawan, known as Budi Pego, was released from prison on 1 July 2018.
Urgent Action update: Youth activists risk three years imprisonment in DRC
After more than 160 days in incommunicado detention, four pro-democracy youth activists were charged.
Urgent Action: Road to be built over individual and mass graves in Iran
The authorities are destroying the individual and mass graves of of political dissidents who were killed in Ahvaz.
Urgent Action good news: Russian court whistleblower released
Former court secretary and whistleblower Aleksandr Eivazov was released on 21 July.
Urgent Action update: Six more hanged in unprecedented execution spree in Japan
Following the executions of 7 members of Aum Shinrikyo (Aum), the remaining 6 men sentenced to death were hanged.
Urgent Action: Thousands of residents’ risk forced eviction in Kenya
Approximately 3,000 residents of the Deep Sea informal settlement in Nairobi are at imminent risk of forced eviction.
Urgent Action Update: NGO worker’s administrative detention renewed in Israel
Israel court confirmed the renewal of the administrative detention of NGO worker and lawyer Salah Hammouri
Urgent Action: Independent journalist must be immediately released in Tajikistan
On 11 July, independent journalist and comedian Khairullo (Khayrullo) Mirsaidov was sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment
Urgent Action Good News: Ohio governor commutes death sentence in USA
On 20 July, the Governor of Ohio commuted the death sentence of Raymond Tibbetts