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Censorship and Freedom of Expression (1472)
Feb 26 2019 11:30am
Urgent Action update: Human rights lawyer at risk of torture
Beijing human rights lawyer Yu Wensheng has been indicted and his case...
Feb 21 2019 2:23pm
Urgent Action outcome: Jordanian journalist released
On 12 February 2019, Jordanian journalist and poet, Tayseer Salman al-...
Feb 20 2019 3:40pm
Urgent Action: Journalist harassed to silence dissent
Maria Ressa, executive editor of online news outlet Rappler and press ...
Feb 18 2019 4:13pm
Urgent Action: Danish Jehovah’s witness jailed for his faith
Danish national and Jehovah’s Witness Dennis Christensen was found gui...
Feb 18 2019 3:02pm
Urgent Action: Sixty-two activists, protesters arbitrarily held
Sixty-two people including activists from the Independence Movement of...
Feb 14 2019 3:09pm
Urgent Action : Poet held over poem calling for government reform
Abdirahman Ibrahim Adan, a poet in Somaliland, has been in detention s...
Feb 13 2019 2:56pm
Urgent Action update: Detained journalist denied family visits
Journalist Amade Abubacar was transferred from the Macomia district pr...
Feb 13 2019 12:14pm
Philippines: Rappler CEO arrested 'on a trumped-up libel charge'
Responding to the arrest warrant served to Maria Ressa at the Rappler ...
Feb 13 2019 11:40am
Urgent Action: Detained online activist alleges torture in prison
Soro Tangboho alias Carton noir, an outspoken online activist, was arb...
Feb 11 2019 4:13pm
Urgent Action outcome: Sentenced to one year in prison for posting Facebook video
Agustinus Yolemal, a Papuan pro-independence activist was convicted fo...