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Censorship and Freedom of Expression (1526)
Mar 27 2019 4:05pm
Urgent Action: Labour activist detained without lawyer
Wei Zhili, an editor of “New Generation” (xinshengdai), a website whic...
Mar 26 2019 4:36pm
Urgent Action outcome: Chechen human rights defender jailed
On 18 March the Shali City Court sentenced Oyub Titiev, head of the Me...
Mar 26 2019 1:54pm
Urgent Action update: Two Jehovah’s witnesses still detained
Artur Severinchik was released from detention on 15 March following th...
Mar 18 2019 6:29pm
Gaza: Hamas crackdown on peaceful cost-of-living protests is most severe for a decade
Amnesty consultant Hind Khoudary interrogated and ill-treated by secur...
Mar 18 2019 4:54pm
Urgent Action good news: Poet acquitted and released
Abdirahman Ibrahim Adan, a poet in Somaliland, was released on 25 Febr...
Mar 14 2019 2:24pm
Urgent Action: Activist and opposition members charged with treason
Activist Rashid Mahiya and Members of Parliament with the opposition, ...
Mar 14 2019 12:30pm
Urgent Action: Human rights defender allegedly tortured
Human rights defender Joaquín Elo Ayeto was arrested on 25 February at...
Mar 13 2019 1:30pm
Bahrain: opposition leader given six-month sentence for tweet about Sudanese president
Opposition leader Ebrahim Sharif had tweeted about Omar al-Bashir’s ‘d...
Mar 11 2019 2:42pm
Urgent Action: Turkey must release civil society figures
Osman Kavala, Yiğit Aksakoğlu and 14 other prominent civil society fig...
Mar 7 2019 4:36pm
Egyptian photojournalist Shawkan released
Egyptian photojournalist Mahmoud Abou Zeid, known as Shawkan, has fina...