Urgent Action: Sudanese activist at imminent risk of deportation from Saudi Arabia
Sudanese political activist at risk of being deported, where he would be at serious risk of torture and ill-treatment
Urgent Action: Activist in China formally arrested after 6 months
Human rights defender Zhen Jianghua was formally arrested in March on the charge of “inciting subversion of state power"
Urgent Action: Eleven people detained without charge in Ethiopia
Security forces arrested & detained 11 people including a lawyer, journalists, bloggers, opposition members & academics
Urgent Action good news: Indigenous peoples advocate released on bail in India
Upendra Nayak, a 65-year-old lawyer, was granted bail and released from custody on 23 March 2018.
Urgent Action: Egyptian defenders and journalists detained
Ezzat Ghoniem has been detained for almost a month over unfounded charges along with journalists and a lawyer.
Urgent Action: Hunger strike in Iran to protest torture in detention
Eight detainees from Iran’s Gonabadi Dervish minority began a hunger strike on in protest against torture.
Urgent Action: 11 women ill-treated and arbitrarily detained in Iran
At least 11 women from Iran’s Gonabadi Dervish religious minority have been arbitrarily detained in inhumane conditions.
Urgent Action Update: Court upholds death sentences of two men in Egypt
The Supreme Military Court of Appeals upheld the death sentences of two men, who are now at imminent risk of execution.
Urgent Action: Students detained for anti-war protest in Turkey
11 students from Istanbul’s Boğaziçi University, who attended a small peaceful campus protest remain in police custody.
Urgent Action Good News: Alabama, USA ends pursuit of 2nd execution attempt
An agreement signed on 27 March means that Alabama will not pursue another death warrant for Doyle Hamm.