Urgent Action update: Equatorial Guinean cartoonist still detained without charge
Ramón Ebalé, an Equatorial Guinean cartoonist and activist, has spent over 50 days in prison without charge.
Urgent Action update: No safe option for refugees at the Manus Island detention centre after camp 'closure'
There are serious concerns for the health and security of hundreds of refugees after essential services were withdrawn.
Urgent Action update: Prisoner of conscience released and expelled in Bahrain
On 30 October, Bahraini prisoner of conscience, Ibrahim Karimi was released from Jaw prison.
Urgent Action good news: Human rights lawyer, activists released in Tanzania
Thirteen health and human rights activists released, after the court found there was insufficient evidence against them
Urgent Action: Rights lawyer detained without official charge in China
Sixty year old human rights lawyer criminally detained for nearly a month without any official information on the charges
Urgent Action: Ohio to execute 69-year-old ‘state-raised’ man
Alva Campbell, aged 69, is due to be executed in Ohio on 15 November. The governor can commute the death sentence.
Urgent Action: Man seized in Libya held incommunicado
A Libyan man facing capital charges in the USA was seized by US forces in Libya on 29 October and taken to a ship
Urgent Action Update: Environmental rights defender to appeal suspended sentence in Madagascar
Raleva has been released after being handed a two-year suspended sentence. He is appealing the sentence.
Urgent Action update: Drop charges against human rights defender in Bahrain
Bahraini woman human rights defender Ebtisam al-Saegh was released, but remains at risk of detention.
