On 20 September, the Misdemeanours Court of Cassation upheld a sentence of one year’s imprisonment and deportation of ‘Abdulhakim al-Fadhli, a defender of the rights of the stateless Bidun community in Kuwait, for charges relating to a peaceful demonstration held in 2012.

A woman who survived IS captivity continues to be arbitrarily detained with her infant daughter in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. She was arrested on 25 October 2014.

Human rights defender and social leader Rubén Ortiz is suffering from constant threats and intimidation related to his support for the rights of peasant farmer (campesino) communities and mission workers in Argentina.

South Sudanese Military Police arrested Elias Waya Nyipuoch, former governor of Wau state, on the morning of 26 June.

Saudi Arabian human rights activist Salim al-Maliki has been arbitrarily detained and held incommunicado for four weeks.

Imdad Ali, a death row prisoner with a mental disability, is at imminent risk of execution. He was convicted of the murder of a religious teacher in 2002.

Egypt’s defence minister has ratified the death sentences of six civilian men tried by a military court in a case marred by enforced disappearances and torture and other ill-treatment.

Canadian-Irish-Iranian citizen Dr Homa Hoodfar, a prominent professor of anthropology, was released on 26 September and flown out of Iran to Oman.

A fundraising update for our young fundraisers. October 2016

Get the media interested in your Write for Rights event by sending a press release to local press and broadcasters.