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.
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.
Urgent Action update: Tiananmen “baijiu” activist sentenced to jail
Sichuan activist Chen Bing was sentenced to three and a half years in prison.
Urgent Action update: Detained journalist formally charged
Journalist Amade Abubacar has formally been charged.
Urgent Action update: Activist and opposition members await trial
Activist Rashid Mahiya and opposition Members of Parliament, Charlton Hwende and Joanna Mamombe are awaiting trial.