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Human rights defenders (746)
Feb 26 2019 1:59pm
Urgent Action: Prominent defender must be released
The final hearing in the trial against Oyub Titiev, prominent human ri...
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 26 2019 10:26am
Urgent Action update: Indigenous human rights defenders at risk
Armed men abducted Mexican Indigenous human rights defenders, Obtilia ...
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...