Urgent Action update: Prison for activists in Democratic Republic of Congo
Six LUCIA activists had their prison sentence reduced from two years to six months on 4 March by an appeal court.
Urgent Action update: Refugee transferred from airport in Turkey still at risk
The Syrian refugee who had been arbitrarily detained in Atatürk Airport for more than one year was transferred on 19 March 2016.
Urgent Action: Journalist risks death penalty for tweets in Saudi Arabia
Journalist and prisoner of conscience, Alaa Brinji is on trial charged with apostasy and risks being sentenced to death.
Urgent Action: Journalist Jia Jia feared detained in China
Prominent journalist Jia Jia, who called for President Xi Jinping to resign, went missing while he was at the Beijing airport.
Urgent Action: Stop amendment banning same-sex marriage in Georgia
Proposed change to Georgia's constitution will define marriage explicitly as between a man and a woman.
Urgent Action: Ten civil society activists harassed in Sudan
Activists at the centre for Training and Human Development in Khartoum had to report daily to the security services.
Urgent Action good news: 9 peaceful protestors released in DRC
Two LUCHA activists were released from prison and seven others were acquitted of charges of organising an illegal demonstration.
Urgent Action update: Elderly Professor's six-year jail term upheld in Iran
Prisoner of conscience Hossein Rafiee, a retired university professor, has had his six-year prison sentence upheld on appeal.
Urgent Action: 13 detainees detail abuse and torture in Malaysia
At least 13 detainees have reported torture or other ill-treatment by the authorities and sexual harassment of their families.
Urgent Action update: Juvenile offender threatened in Iran
Saman Naseem has been put under pressure to do a video interview and threatened with execution, if he fails to comply.