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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.

UA 247/17 issued 02/11/2017

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

UA 246/17 issued 01/11/2017

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.

1st Update on UA 237/17 issued 01/11/2017

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.

4th update on UA 165/17 issues 31/10/2017

Urgent Action: Execution set after 26 years on death row in USA

Patrick Hannon is scheduled to be executed in Florida at 6pm on 8 November. He was convicted in July 1991.

UA 214/17 issued 27/10/2017

Urgent Action update: Stop ill-treatment of human rights defender in Bahrain

Human rights defender, Nabeel Rajab, appealed against his two year prison sentence for interviews he gave.

18th update on UA 249/14 issued 27/10/2017