Urgent Action outcome: Mikhail Tsakunov released, trial ongoing
Prisoner of conscience Mikhail Tsakunov was released under travel restrictions, after a year in pre-trial detention.
Urgent Action: Journalist charged with spreading false news
Casimir Kpedjo, the managing editor of the newspaper ‘New Economy’, was charged with publishing “false information".
Urgent Action: End attacks against human rights defenders
Cristina Palabay was warned by an anonymous source that her and several others are targeted to be killed this year.
Urgent Action correction: Activist risks charges over forced ‘confession’
Suha Jbara was released after spending over two months in detention where she says she was tortured by interrogators.
Urgent Action update: Chinese labour activist held incommunicado
Wei Zhili, editor of “New Generation” (xinshengdai), was transferred to secret incommunicado detention on 20 April 2019.
Urgent Action update: Four umbrella movement leaders imprisoned
Four leaders of the 2014 Hong Kong pro-democracy Umbrella Movement protests sentenced to 8 to 16 months in prison.
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Local Group Fundraising Update: April 2019
A Local Group fundraising update featuring summer fundraising ideas and info. on contactless donation tin labels.
Urgent Action: Thousands in need of urgent protection
People from Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities in Bojayá, Chocó face live-threatening forced displacement risks.
Urgent Action: Yemeni academic held incommunicado
Professor and political figure Youssef al-Bawab has been held in incommunicado detention since 2 April 2019.