Urgent Action: Attack against indigenous defender in Ecuador
Patricia Gualinga, Indigenous human rights defender, reported that on 5 January an unknown man attacked her home.
Urgent Action update: Egyptian activists sentenced for peacefully protesting
Human rights activist Mahienour el-Masry sentenced along with labour activist Moatasem Medhat to two years in prison.
Urgent Action: More activists detained for Liu Xiaobo memorial
Activists have been detained due to their participation in the July 2017 memorial for late Nobel Peace Prize laureate
Urgent Action: Human rights defender detained in Chechnya
On 9 January, police arbitrarily arrested Chechen human rights defender Oyub Titiev. He remains in detention.
Urgent Action: Two journalists face up to 14 years in Myanmar prison
Two journalists are facing up to 14 years in prison in connection with their peaceful journalistic activities
Urgent Action: Medical practitioner held incommunicado in China
Shafkat Abasi, a member of the Tatar ethnic minority, was detained on 13 March of 2017 and has not been heard from since
Urgent Action update: 529 patients are still awaiting medical evacuation in Syria
29 of the 558 patients awaiting medical evacuation in besieged Eastern Ghouta have been evacuated and transferred.
Urgent Action update: Chinese lawyer refused access to detained activist
Liu Feiyue who is facing charges of “inciting subversion of state power”, has been again unable to meet his lawyer.
Urgent Action update: Sentenced activist remains at risk of torture in China
Activist Wu Gan (better known by his pen name Tufu, ‘The Butcher’) was sentenced to eight years’ imprisonment.
Urgent Action good news: Missing Bangladeshi academic returned home
Mubashar Hasan, a well-known Bangladeshi academic who went missing was returned home on 22 December, after 44 days.