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Urgent Action: Two Afro-descendant defenders criminalized in Colombia
Community leaders and human rights defenders have been unjustly detained and accused of charges they did not commit.
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Urgent Action: Two Afro-descendant defenders criminalized in Colombia
Community leaders and human rights defenders have been unjustly detained and accused of charges they did not commit
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Urgent Action: Five years imprisonment and fine in Indonesia for facebook post
Five years imprisonment for Facebook posts deemed to be insulting of Islam and for allegedly spreading ‘hate speech'
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Urgent Action: Clampdown on free expression in Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico authorities responded violently to demonstrations on 1 May by repressing protesters
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Urgent Action Update: Man in Slovakia at risk of imminent extradition to Russia
Aslan Yandiev is once again at risk of imminent extradition following the decision of the Slovak Constitutional Court
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Urgent Action update: Administrative detention term extended for activist in India
Human rights defender Chandrashekhar Azad ‘Ravan’ has been held in administrative detention for over six months.
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Urgent Action: Urge US Governor not to veto abolition bill
A bill abolishing the death penalty in the US state of New Hampshire, is due go to the Governor.
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Urgent Action good news: Women’s rights activists no longer at imminent risk in Ukraine
Vitaliana Koval and other defenders in Ukraine are no longer considered to be facing an imminent threat of violence.
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Urgent Action good news: Prisoner of conscience released in Bahrain
On 26 March, political activist and prisoner of conscience, Fadhel Abbas Mahdi Mohamed was released from Jaw prison.
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Urgent Action update: Fears for detained human rights defender's life in China
Huang Qi, founder and director of Sichuan-based human rights website “64 Tianwang” is seriously ill.