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Urgent Action update: Allow environmental activist visits in Cuba

Dr Ariel Ruiz Urquiola, an environmental activist, was sentenced in Cuba to one-year imprisonment for contempt.

1st update on UA 109/18 issued 22/06/2018

Children's Citizenship: Proposed Motion to Councils

Proposed motion on Children's Citizenship fees to be put to local councils.

Children's Citizenship: Proposed Motion to Councils

Urgent Action: Five people held incommunicado in Oman

Since 6 April, Omani authorities have launched a series of arbitrary detentions of individuals from Musandam province.

UA 121/18 issued 21/06/2018

Urgent Action: Grave fears for missing Uighur PhD student in China

Guligeina Tashimaimaiti has not been heard from since 26 December 2017, when she returned from Malaysia to her hometown.

UA 122/18 issued 21/06/2018

Urgent Action: Health fears for detainee in Maldives without access to lawyer

Lahiru Manikkuadura, a Sri Lankan citizen, has been detained in the Maldives without a trial date since September 2016.

UA 118/18 issued 21/06/2018

Urgent Action: Trust fund boss goes missing from police custody in Lesotho

Head of the Maesaiah Thabane Trust Fund whereabouts are unknown after police claim that she escaped from custody.

UA 113/18 issued 21/06/2018

Urgent Action: More at risk as Thailand resumes executions

Thai prison authorities carried out the country’s first execution in nearly a decade on 18 June 2018.

UA 119/18 issued 21/06/2018

Urgent Action good news: Turkish court acquits rapper

On 19 June, an Istanbul court ordered the immediate release of rapper, Ezhel.

1st update on UA 107/18 issued 20/06/2018

Human rights defenders (BRAVE) Campaign

Please take action and Call on UK Government to increase its support to Human Rights Defenders.

Petition calling on Home Secretary to reunite refugee families