A Cairo court adjourned to 28 June the trial of photojournalist Shawkan. He is a prisoner of conscience facing nine trumped-up charges and is at risk of the death penalty, if convicted.

Azerbaijani youth activists Bayram Mammadov and Giyas Ibrahimov have been in detention since 10 May, accused of drug possession, after painting political graffiti on the former President’s statue.

Two Chinese activists, Jiang Yefei and Dong Guangping, are at risk of torture and other ill-treatment and unfair trial.

A poster depicting Article 1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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On 26 May 2016, the High Court of Seoul upheld the two-year prison sentence of Kim Hye-young, a woman in South Korea with thyroid cancer, who was earlier arrested for taking part in a peaceful demonstration.

Belén continues to be detained in Tucuman Province, northern Argentina, after suffering a miscarriage in a public hospital.

Six staff members and a volunteer from TRACKS for Training and Human Development and the visiting director of Al Zarqa for Rural Development organisation have been detained since 22 May at the office of the National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) Prosecutor of crimes against the state in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan.

María Teresa Rivera, a Salvadoran woman recently released after four years in prison for pregnancy-related charges, risks being sent back to trial if the Attorney General decides to appeal the judge’s ruling that just set her free.

Three followers of the ‘Millah Abraham’ religious belief are being detained by the Indonesian national police.

Iranian musicians Mehdi Rajabian and Yousef Emadi, and filmmaker Hossein Rajabian have been summoned to start serving a three-year prison sentence, imposed for their artistic work.