Congolese political opposition member, Modeste Boukadia, has been hospitalised for the third time as a result of injuries he sustained during a severe beating by prison guards on 15 November 2016 while in prison.

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On 1 February, on the expiry of his detention order, authorities are due to ask the courts permission to continue the detention of law student Jatupat Boonpattararaksa who may face up to 15 years’ imprisonment for posting a BBC article on Facebook.

Al-Sayed Alawi Hussain al-Alawi continues to be detained without charge or access to a lawyer since his arrest in October 2016.

Keyvan Qadari, a Yemeni Baha’i, has been arbitrarily detained since 10 August 2016 and held incommunicado intermittently. Despite a release order, he remains detained without charge and is a prisoner of conscience.

Dr Mudawi Ibrahim Adam, 58, a prominent Sudanese human rights defender has been on hunger strike since 21 January 2017 to protest against his arbitrary detention.

There have been further paramilitary incursions into several hamlets in or near the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó in north-western Colombia.

Hiroji Yamashiro has been detained since mid-October 2016 after protesting against new U.S. military construction projects in Okinawa.

Dong Samuel Luak, a prominent South Sudanese lawyer and human rights advocate, has been missing since the night of 23 January.

Current government rules separate child refugees in the UK from their families overseas, should they ever be located. Children are the only refugees in our system, recognised to be this country’s responsibility yet denied the right to sponsor family members to join them in the UK.

This permanently separates extremely vulnerable children from their families as neither their parents nor their siblings are ever permitted to join them here. This puts child refugees’ safety and well-being at risk.