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Oct 24 2019 5:13pm
Urgent Action: Another journalist arrested to silence dissent
Erick Kabendera, a well-respected journalist whose investigations have...
Oct 21 2019 3:33pm
Urgent Action: Missing human rights defender believed killed
In a report published on 13 September 2019, the UN Commission of Inqui...
Oct 21 2019 2:35pm
Urgent Action Outcome: Tunisian activist acquitted of all charges
On 19 September 2019, a court in Tunis acquitted 18-year-old activist ...
Oct 21 2019 12:06pm
Urgent Action Update: Over 130 people remain in detention in Nicaragua
A year and a half since the beginning of the crisis in Nicaragua, at l...
Oct 14 2019 6:21pm
Egypt: prominent human rights defender tortured as crackdown intensifies
Esraa Abdelfattah abducted in a van on Saturday night, before ordeal i...
Oct 3 2019 9:45pm
Brazil: arrests in Marielle Franco case welcomed
Four arrests come more than 18 months after notorious murder of Rio de...
Sep 24 2019 4:58pm
Egypt: world leaders at UN must confront Sisi over protests crackdown
Birdshot and tear gas used against protesters, as hundreds arrested  ...
Sep 24 2019 11:00am
EU must do more to counter mounting global attacks on human rights defenders
Inconsistencies in EU protection of activists who are facing mounting ...
Sep 17 2019 12:59am
Russia: human rights activism a 'minefield' under Putin's presidency - new report
Repressive laws, jailings, beatings by ‘unknown’ assailants, bank acco...
Sep 12 2019 5:37pm
Thank you for taking action
After human rights defender Cristina Palabay found herself on a go...