Two co-founders of a Saudi Arabian human rights organization are on trial before the counter-terror court on charges related to their human rights work.

Prisoner of conscience Maryam Akbari Monfared, who is serving a 15-year sentence in Tehran’s Evin Prison, is being denied access to medical treatment.

Bahraini women’s rights activist Ghada Jamsheer, a prisoner of conscience serving the remainder of a 10-month prison sentence, is due in court on 7 November.

On 31 October, the Supreme Federal Court in the United Arab Emirates issued its verdict against Amina ‘Abdouli and her brother Mos’ab ‘Abdouli, sentencing them to five and seven years in prison respectively.

In a letter addressed to his wife and published on a news website on 1 November, prisoner of conscience Ildar Dadin revealed that prison staff, including the director of the prison colony in Segezha, in the Karelia region of Russia, have beaten and tortured him since his arrival on 10 September.

Bahraini human rights defender and prisoner of conscience Nabeel Rajab’s verdict has been postponed once again. The High Criminal Court has scheduled the next hearing for 15 December to allow further investigations into his Twitter account.

Three human rights defenders engaged in activism relating to an ecological disaster in Vietnam are facing severe harassment, including public denunciations, prosecution and death threats.

On 26 October the five years prison sentence against political activist and prisoner of conscience Fadhel Abbas Mahdi Mohamed was reduced to three years by Bahrain’s High Court of Appeals.

One of the citizen journalists detained for covering protests prior to the G20 summit, Yuan Ying, was released on 27 October and sources have attributed international pressure, including action taken by Amnesty International, to her release.

Andrés Moreno Febres-Cordero, Marco Trejo, James Mathison and César Cuellar were arrested at the end of September for producing a video for the opposition party Primero Justicia.