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Detention and Imprisonment (192)
Aug 9 2019 12:35pm
Urgent Action update: Hunger-striking labour rights activist at risk
Labour rights activist Sepideh Gholian has been on hunger strike since...
Aug 8 2019 4:04pm
Urgent Action: Writer faces up to 10 years jail for story
Shakthika Sathkumara, an award-winning Sri Lankan writer, was arrested...
Aug 8 2019 3:24pm
Urgent Action update: Uyghur woman held incommunicado for 2 years
Buzainafu Abudourexiti continues to be held in incommunicado detention...
Aug 8 2019 2:52pm
Urgent Action update: A decade in jail for defying forced veiling
Two Iranian women’s rights defenders, Yasaman Aryani and Monireh Arabs...
Aug 5 2019 12:31pm
Urgent Action: Activist held incommunicado for months
Yang Zhengjun, a prominent workers’ rights activist has been held inco...
Aug 2 2019 3:22pm
Urgent Action: Newspaper editor detained without charge
On 15 July 2019, Michael Rial Christopher, a 40-year-old South Sudanes...
Aug 1 2019 12:28pm
Urgent Action update: Uyghur activist’s 30 relatives still detained
Up to 30 relatives of Uyghur human rights activist Rebiya Kadeer, who ...
Aug 1 2019 11:29am
Urgent Action update: Arbitrarily detained couple remains held
On 3 July 2019, a judge ordered the release of Ola al-Qaradawi after o...
Jul 29 2019 4:29pm
Urgent Action update: Jailed Crimean Tatar’s health still at risk
On 3 July a court in Russian - occupied Crimea rejected Edem Bekirov’s...
Jul 29 2019 12:15pm
Urgent Action: Security agent ill-treated in detention
Ding Ding Mou, a South Sudanese security agent, is detained at the Riv...