Urgent Action update: Iranian trade unionist on hunger strike
Iranian trade unionist Esmail Abdi started a hunger strike to protest against the treatment of teachers and workers.
Local Group Fundraising Update: April 2018
A fundraising update for the local group network featuring news of a group member's Land's End to John O' Groats cycle.
Urgent Action: The state is repressing demonstrators in Nicaragua
Nicaraguan authorities have responded violently to demonstrations taking place throughout the country.
Urgent Action: Over 2,000 Afghans at risk of deportation in Turkey
Turkey has deported 7,100 Afghan citizens, and at least 2,000 more are detained and at risk of deportation.
Sakris Kupila solidarity action
Take solidarity action for Sakris Kupila, a transgender right defender from Finland.
Urgent Action: Disappeared human rights defenders at risk of torture in Pakistan
Deedar Ali Shabrani, a journalist from Pakistan, is believed to have been forcibly disappeared.
Urgent Action: Indigenous leader on hunger strike hospitalized in Chile
Mapuche Indigenous spiritual leader Machi Celestino Córdova is at risk after spending more than 90 days on hunger strike.
Urgent Action good news: Kachin prisoner of conscience freed in Myanmar
Kachin prisoner of conscience Lahpai Gam has been released from prison following a Presidential amnesty on 17 April 2018.
Urgent Action update: Review for upheld death sentence requested in Bahrain
The review of the cases of Mohamed Ali Hussain and Hussain Ali Moosa Hussain Mohamed were requested.
Urgent Action good news: Kachin pastors released in Myanmar prisoner amnesty
Kachin pastors Dumdaw Nawng Lat and Langjaw Gam Seng have been released from prison following a Presidential amnesty.