Angolan youth activist, Francisco Mapanda, was beaten by prison officials for asking that his family be informed of a prison transfer before he agreed to it.

A court upheld the conviction of Algerian activist Slimane Bouhafs for insulting Islam and the Prophet Muhammad on Facebook

The trial of two detained Omani journalists in connection with articles they published alleging corruption in the judiciary, and a third journalist for his tweets, is ongoing.

Islam Khalil, a 27-year-old survivor of enforced disappearance and torture, was released on 31 August by the National Security Agency, 10 days after the prosecution ordered his release on bail.

Lu Yuyu told his lawyer that he had been beaten by police officers and is suffering from sleep deprivation.

Prisoner of conscience Ilmi Umerov was sent to a psychiatric institution “for examination” on 18 August.

Shafik Rehman, an 81-year-old Bangladeshi journalist who was arrested on 16 April, has been granted bail by the Supreme Court.

Detained activist Xing Wangli is in a critical condition with severe injuries to his head and lungs after what authorities claim was a failed suicide attempt.

Mir Quasem Ali, a senior member of the political party Jamaat-e-Islami, was executed on 3 September. The Supreme Court rejected his review petition on 30 August and he did not seek clemency from the President.

Omani prisoner of conscience Saeed Jaddad was released from prison on 26 August, having served nine months of a one-year prison sentence under Oman’s cybercrimes law for a blog he wrote in October 2014.