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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 5 2019 1:40pm
Urgent Action: Woman human rights defender facing threats online
Woman human rights defender Fátima Mimbire has been receiving intimida...
Jan 29 2019 3:29pm
Urgent Action update: Woman attacked for seeking justice for son
On 11 January, two unidentified men in a motorbike shot three times at...
Jan 25 2019 12:58pm
Dying to save the environment in Mexico
Defending human rights should never be a death sentence. But it has be...
Jan 24 2019 5:00pm
Mexico: Government failed to prevent murder of environmental activist - new report
Indigenous Rarámuri leader, Julián Carrillo leader killed on 24 Octobe...
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...
Jan 24 2019 11:38am
Urgent Action Outcome: Human rights defender loses final appeal
On 31 December 2018, Bahrain’s Court of Cassation upheld the five-year...
Jan 24 2019 12:00am
Iran: more than 7,000 arrested last year in crackdown of 'staggering scale' - new figures
Women protesting against being forced to wear headscarves among those ...
Jan 21 2019 5:36pm
Russia: first-ever 'undesirable organisation' case brought against human rights activist
Open Russia’s coordinator in Rostov-on-Don could face six years in jai...
Jan 17 2019 3:31pm
Urgent Action update: Activist sentenced to two years in prison
Chinese human rights defender Zhen Jianghua was convicted of “inciting...