Urgent Action: Prisoner of conscience needs medical care in Venezuela
Prisoner of conscience Villca Fernández is being denied access to specialized medical treatment. His health deteriorates.
Urgent Action Update: Cartoonist held in pre-trial detention in Equatorial Guinea
Ramón Esono Ebalé, a cartoonist and activist, is charged with counterfeiting money and held in pre-trial detention.
Urgent Action: Health fears for poet under illegal house arrest in China
Liu Xia wrote a letter expressing her deep depression and loneliness under house arrest.
Urgent Action Update: Bolivian NGO and staff under financial threat
The Bolivian Documentation and Information Centre (CEDIB) reported new threats to their human rights work and its staff.
Urgent Action: Defenders denouncing violent repression at risk in Honduras
Honduran human rights organizations have reported security incidents, including threats and persecution of members.
Urgent Action update: Sahrawi prisoner's health critically deteriorating in Morocco
Abdeljalil Laaroussi’s health is critically deteriorating. He has been on hunger strike since 20 November 2017.
Urgent Action Update: Killings of land claimant leaders
Two land claimant leaders of collective Afro-descendent territories in Chocó have been killed by paramilitary groups.
Urgent Action Update: Russian authorities block activist's release
The Russian authorities continue to block activist and journalist Ali Feruz’s release from detention.
Urgent Action End Action: Court rejects activist's appeal
The Kirovskii District Court rejected Evdokia Romanova's appeal against her prosecution.
Urgent Action update: Prisoner subjected to forced psychiatric treatment
A Ukrainian national detained in Russia in 2014 has been subjected to forced psychiatric treatment by prison authorities.