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Urgent Action: Environmental activists arbitrarily jailed in Cambodia
Two environmental activists were arrested in Cambodia for filming two vessels they suspected of illegally exporting sand.
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Urgent Action: Mother loses custody of kids for son's long hair in Russia
Russian authorities have removed seven children from their adoptive mother after she allowed their hair to grow long.
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End Action: Poland's President approves judicial overhaul bills
On 8 December, Poland’s Parliament passed two bills which increase the government’s control of the judiciary.
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Urgent Action: Head of dissolved main opposition party jailed
On 3 September, Kem Sokha, president of the dissolved main opposition party, was arrested at his house in Tuol Kork
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Urgent Action: Egypt continues to arrest government critics
On 16 November, security agents in plain clothes arrested Egyptian social media figure Islam al-Refaei
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Urgent Action: Venezuela to run out of antiretrovirals in 2018
The government has reportedly not yet signed an urgently needed order for the purchase of vital antiretroviral medication
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Urgent Action Update: Violence against protestors escalates
At least 20 people have reportedly been killed, hundreds detained and others injured following the repression of protests
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Urgent Action: 14 dead as a result of the Syrian government siege
14 individuals have died since July in Eastern Ghouta, as the Syrian government blocks their medical evacuation
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Urgent Action Update: Palestinian Human Rights Defender released
Hasan Safadi, Palestinian human rights defender and media coordinator for prisoners’ rights group Addameer, was released
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Urgent Action: Women's Rights Defender threatened with death
Sanièce Petit Phat, a Haitian women and girls’ rights defender, has reported receiving death threats because of her work.