Urgent Action: Victim of acid attack faces defamation charge in Indonesia
Novel Baswedan is facing criminal defamation proceedings for an email he wrote as a union representative.
Urgent Action: Activists risk prison after peaceful protests in the DRC
Four pro-democracy Congolese activists were sentenced to eight months in prison. A fifth is still facing trial.
Urgent Action update: Human rights defender faces new charges in Bahrain
Prisoner of conscience Nabeel Rajab faces new charges including “inciting hatred against the regime”.
Urgent Action: Detained cartoonist facing trumped up charges in Equatorial Guinea
An Equatorial Guinean cartoonist and activist, Ramón Esono Ebalé, has been arrested and detained.
Urgent Action update: Florida execution reset, innocence maintained
Michael Lambrix is scheduled to be executed in Florida at 6pm on 5 October.
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Urgent Action good news: Activist released after charges dropped in Myanmar
Activist Htin Kyaw was released from prison.
Urgent Action good news: Charges against two media workers dropped in Myanmar
The charges against journalists Kyaw Min Swe and Kyaw Zwar Naing were dropped on 1 September.
Urgent Action good news: Three journalists released after charges dropped in Myanmar
Journalists Lawi Weng, Aye Nai and Pyae Phone Aung were released from prison on 1 September 2017.
Urgent Action: Offices of human rights defenders attacked in Indonesia
Staff of the Indonesian and Jakarta Legal Institutes were threatened by violent ‘anti-communist’ protesters.