Urgent Action: Death threats for human rights lawyer in India
Dalit lawyer and human rights defender, Rajat Kalsan, faces fabricated charges and death threats due to his work.
Urgent Action: Taiwan NGO worker faces life imprisonment in China
Lee Ming-cheh was seen “confessing” on camera to charges of “subversion” during his trial.
Urgent Action update: Activists indicted for peaceful assembly in Thailand
Five student activists, a land rights activist and two human rights lawyers face six months imprisonment and unfair trial
Urgent Action update: Lesotho soldiers risk facing a fresh trial
The Court Martial of the Lesotho Defence Forces (LDF) soldiers facing mutiny charges been postponed.
Ugent Action Update: Fifteen released, five still arbitrarily detained in South Sudan
Fifteen of the 21 released. Five men remain arbitrarily detained at the NSS headquarters, while one has been charged.
Urgent Action: Man held in South Sudan in poor conditions, denied family visits
James Gatdet, who was unlawfully transferred from Kenya, has been charged with several offenses among them ‘Treason’
Urgent Action good news: Texas court issues stay of execution
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has granted a stay of execution to Clinton Young, who was due to be put to death.
Urgent Action update: Activist faces trial for ‘homosexual propaganda’ in Russian Federation
On 18 October, a court in Samara will hear the case against human rights defender Evdokia Romanova.
Urgent Action update: Crimean Tatar leader sentenced to prison
Prominent Crimean Tatar activist Ilmi Umerov was sentenced to two years in penal colony on 27 September.