Urgent Action good news: Tatar activist and prisoner of conscience released in Russia
On 27 Dec 2017, Tatar activist Rafis Kashapov was released from prison after having served the full three-year sentence
Urgent Action Update: Human rights defenders in Honduras under attack
Violence against human rights defenders monitoring and denouncing the violent repression of protests has increased
Urgent Action Update: Prisoner of conscience in Bahrain denied medication
Hassan Mshaima one of 11 jailed prominent Bahraini opposition activists, is being denied adequate healthcare in detention
Urgent Action: Two indigenous activists face life imprisonment in India
Two activists have been arrested for their role in the resistance to forced acquisition of land for a steel plant
Urgent Action: Opposition member alleges torture in Sudan prison
Radwan Daoud alleges that he has been subjected to torture while in the custody in Khartoum
Urgent Action Update: Human rights defender’s appealed sentence upheld in Bahrain
Two-year prison sentence upheld against human rights defender and prisoner of conscience Nabeel Rajab
Urgent Action update: Independent journalist in Uzbekistan must be immediately released
The family of independent journalist Bobomurod Abdullayev was allowed to see him for the first time in three months.
Urgent Action update: Execution imminent after death sentence upheld in Belarus
The death sentences of Ihar Hershankou and Siamion Berazhnoy were upheld by the Supreme Court of Belarus.
Urgent Action: Indigenous community in Kenya forcibly evicted
Kenyan authorities are forcibly evicting the Sengwer Indigenous community from their ancestral home, the Embobut forest.