Skip to main content
Amnesty International UK
Log in
Censorship and Freedom of Expression (1472)
Feb 7 2019 1:48pm
Urgent Action: Human rights defender under house arrest
On 23 January, Anastasia Shevchenko, an Open Russia human rights defen...
Feb 6 2019 2:51pm
Urgent Action update: Human rights defender tried in secret
Huang Qi, founder and director of Sichuan-based human rights website “...
Feb 6 2019 12:49pm
Urgent Action: Prominent Bedouin leader imprisoned by Israel
On 25 December 2018, 69-year-old human rights defender Sheikh Sayyah A...
Feb 5 2019 3:33pm
Urgent Action update: Journalist’s request for provisional release rejected
On 18 January, Macomia’s District Judicial Court ruled that the pre-tr...
Feb 5 2019 1:12pm
Russia: verdict due in trial of first Jehovah's Witness arrested under new clampdown
Verdict in trial of Danish national Dennis Christensen expected tomorr...
Jan 31 2019 5:07pm
Venezuela: Arrest of 11 journalists a 'vain attempt' to disguise human rights violations
In response to reports that at least 11 journalists were detained in V...
Jan 28 2019 12:54pm
Bahrain: verdict against Sheikh Salman is 'another nail in the coffin' for free speech
‘The Bahraini authorities must quash Sheikh Ali Salman’s conviction’ -...
Jan 28 2019 11:49am
Urgent Action: Administrative detention for Facebook posts
Kishorchandra Wangkhem, a journalist based in Manipur, India, was arre...
Jan 24 2019 3:25pm
Urgent Action: Journalist arbitrarily detained incommunicado
Amade Abubacar, a journalist at Nacedje community radio, was arrested ...
Jan 24 2019 1:48pm
Urgent Action outcome: Human rights defender’s 10-year sentence upheld
On 31 December 2018, prominent human rights defender, Ahmed Mansoor, h...