Urgent Action update: Some critics free in Sudan, others remain in custody
About 79 opposition party members and human rights defender have been released. At least 61 others remain.
Urgent Action: Indigenous peoples advocate arrested in India for ‘sedition’
Upendra Nayak, a lawyer who defends the rights of indigenous Adivasi people, was arrested in eastern India.
Urgent Action: Withheld evidence at issue as execution nears in USA
William Montgomery is due to be executed in Ohio on 11 April for a 1986 murder he says he did not commit.
Urgent Action: 20 relative of Uighur journalist detained in China
Approximately 20 relatives of Gulchehra Hoja, a Uighur journalist, have been detained and are at risk of torture.
Urgent Action update: Maximum prison sentence for anti-Formosa activist in Vietnam
Hoàng Đức Bình was sentenced to 14 years in prison for criticising the Formosa disaster and government-critical blogging
Urgent Action update: Health fears for relocated jailed activist in Vietnam
Nguyễn Ngọc Như Quỳnh, known as blogger Mẹ Nấm (Mother Mushroom) was secretly moved over 900km away to a prison.
Urgent Action update: Student at risk of deportation to Afghanistan from Norway
18-year old student Taibeh Abbasi is at imminent risk of being deported to Afghanistan, a country she has never been to.
Urgent Action update: Execution called off in USA, continue clemency call
Alabama called off the execution of Doyle Hamm after the lethal injection team was unable to find an accessible vein.
Urgent Action good news: Chadian youth activist unconditionally released
Alain Didah Kemba, spokesperson of the Chadian youth movement IYINA, was unconditionally released on 26 February.
Urgent Action: Oppose detainee transfers to Guantánamo
The US authorities are preparing for possible detainee transfers to the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.