Urgent Action: Falun Gong high school teacher detained
Falun Gong practitioner chemistry teacher Chen Yan is facing a trial for distributing Falun Gong materials on the street.
Urgent Action: Bloggers held for condemning corruption
Bloggers Cheikh Jiddou and Abderrahmane Weddady were arbitrarily arrested on 22 March in Nouakchott.
Urgent Action update: Disappeared activist at risk of torture
Gao Zhisheng, a former prisoner of conscience and human rights lawyer, is subject to enforced disappearance.
Urgent Action good news: Anti-military peaceful protester released early
Activist Tin Maung Kyi was released 13 days early on 29 March 2019 after serving six months and two days in prison.
Urgent Action correction: Human rights defender on hunger strike
Ahmed Mansoor has been on hunger strike for over three weeks in protest of his prison conditions and his unfair trial.
Urgent Action: 13 prisoners at risk of imminent execution
After 43 years without using the death penalty, the President, is reportedly planning execute prisoners on death row.
Urgent Action update: Nine umbrella movement leaders convicted
Leaders of the Hong Kong pro-democracy protests each found guilty of vague and ambiguous “public nuisance' charges.
Urgent Action: Three face jail for peaceful protest
The trial against Yan Sidorov, Vladislav Mordasov and Viacheslav Shashmin is expected to start in May.
Urgent Action: Human rights defender under house arrest
Human rights defender Serikzhan Bilash has been under house arrest since 10 March.