Fashion designer and LGBTI activist Barbaros Şansal is being held in pre-trial detention, accused of ‘inciting the public to hatred or hostility’ for a video message and tweet he shared on social media on New Year’s Eve.

70-year-old retired professor Dr Zafar Arif was arrested on 22 October and remains without access to a lawyer or medical care. He is a heart patient and there are grave concerns for his health.

Activist Jatupat Boonpattararaksa may face up to 15 years’ imprisonment for posting a news article online.

Huang Qi, founder of Sichuan-based website “64 Tianwang” (www.64tianwang.com), who has not been heard from since he was taken away on 28 November, has been formally arrested for “leaking state secrets”. He still does not have access to a lawyer.

Human rights defender Wahid Baloch has been released more than four months after suspected enforced disappearance by state security forces in Karachi.

Two Papuan political activists have been detained as a result of their peaceful political activities and charged with “rebellion” under the Indonesian Criminal Code.

Twenty activists of the youth movement Lutte pour le Changement (LUCHA) were arrested during a peaceful sit-in in the city of Goma on 21 December.

Beijing human rights lawyer Jiang Tianyong, last heard from on 21 November, is said to be in held in police custody for allegedly “leaking state secrets”.

Two of the 30 men who had been in arbitrary detention in the prison at the National Security Service (NSS) headquarters were released.

A woman who survived IS captivity has been charged under the Anti-Terrorism Law and will face trial on 21 February 2017.