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Human rights defenders (745)
Feb 21 2019 11:49am
Urgent Action: Saudi activist held in solitary confinement
Woman human rights defender, Nassima al-Sada, was placed in solitary c...
Feb 21 2019 9:24am
NGO's 'being bullied into silence' around the world - new report
Anti-NGO laws have been implemented or are in the pipeline in 50 count...
Feb 20 2019 2:36pm
Urgent Action update: Pre-trial detention for human rights defender
On 9 February, a judge ordered the pre-trial detention of human rights...
Feb 20 2019 1:36pm
Urgent Action update: Indigenous rights defenders disappeared
On 12 February, Mexican Indigenous human rights defenders, Obtilia Eug...
Feb 18 2019 3:02pm
Urgent Action: Sixty-two activists, protesters arbitrarily held
Sixty-two people including activists from the Independence Movement of...
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 3:27pm
Urgent Action: Labour rights activists at risk of further torture
Iranian labour rights activists Esmail Bakhshi and Sepideh Gholian, wh...
Feb 7 2019 2:46pm
Urgent Action: Activist arbitrarily detained for almost 6 months
Peter Biar Ajak, a prominent South Sudanese academic and activist, has...
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 7 2019 12:32pm
Urgent Action outcome: Mauritanian anti-slavery activists released
Two anti-slavery activists Biram Dah Abeid and Abdellahi el Housein Me...