Appeals for action

Hu Jia at home after being held in incommunicado detetion, Beijing, July 2006.

Hu Jia jailed for three and a half years

4 April 2008

Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia has been convicted of “inciting subversion of state power” and sentenced to three and a half years in prison.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

Time to release Aung San Suu Kyi

25 March 2008

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is the best-known of more than 1,850 known political prisoners and prisoners of conscience in Myanmar. 
Tran Quoc Hien - imprisoned for trade union work

Free imprisoned trade unionists

10 December 2007

Viet Nam: Two days after Tran Quoc Hien was chosen as spokesperson for the United Workers-Farmers Organization (UWFO) in January 2007, he was arrested.
Bu Dongwei, a Falun Gong practitioner who worked for a US-based NGO, is serving two and a half years Re-education Through Labour

End persecution of Falun Gong practitioner

10 December 2007

China: Bu Dongwei, a Falun Gong practitioner who worked for a US-based NGO is serving two and a half years Re-education Through Labour in Beijing due to his religious beliefs.
Publisher Carlos Hernández and journalist Dina Meza

Protect campaigning journalists

10 December 2007

Honduras: An award-winning journalist and her colleagues face a campaign of harassment and intimidation after investigating several private security firms for labour rights violations.
Artur Akhmatkhanov has not been seen since he was bundled into an armoured personnel carrier in 2003

Demand the truth about student's disappearance

10 December 2007

Russia: 22-year-old Artur Akhmatkhanov was grabbed by masked soldiers and bundled into an armoured personnel carrier in 2003; he has not been seen since.
Protesters flee as police release tear gas, Yangon, Myanmar on 27 September

Release Myanmar's peaceful protesters

6 December 2007

For decades, human rights violations in Myanmar have been widespread and systematic – most senior opposition figures are imprisoned or detained, amongst more than 1,150 political prisoners held in deteriorating prison conditions. 
 Lawyers demonstrate against President General Pervez Musharraf.

Demand rights for judges

28 November 2007

Pakistan: One of the key targets under attack in the state of emergency, imposed by President Musharraf, has been the country’s increasingly active judiciary.