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Urgent Action update: Human Rights Defender's sentence upheld
Bahraini Court of Appeal upheld the 2 year prison sentence against human rights defender Nabeel Rajab.
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Urgent Action: Bahamian man at risk after detention
Bahamian man's whereabouts unknown after being detained by immigration authorities for over three months.
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Urgent Action: Bedouin community at risk of explusion
The Israeli army has issued an expulsion order which will forcibly evict 58 Palestinian Bedouin families in the area of J
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Urgent Action good news: Human rights defender aquitted of all charges
Pastor Evan Mawarire was acquitted of the charge of ‘subversion of constitutional elected government’ on 29 November.
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Urgent Action: Pakistani Activist's whereabouts unknown
Raza Khan, a Pakistani peace activist, has not been seen or heard from since 2 December
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Urgent Action: Former journalists charged with espionage
Two former journalists for US-based Radio Free Asia in Cambodia were detained on trumped-up charges of espionage
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Urgent Action: Violent repression following elections
At least 13 people have reportedly been killed, scores of people detained and others injured
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Urgent Action Update: Former POC feared to be in detention again
The whereabouts of Human Rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng remains a mystery after he has been missing for over three months.
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Urgent Action: Leader of peace community threatened
Paramilitary groups continue incursions and threats against the people of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó