Status: Detained & In Hospital Yasir Elsir Ali 8 January 2019Ongoing incommunicado detention of blogger & HRD, Yasir Elsir Ali Violations #Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment
Status: Sentenced Briançon 7 20 December 2018Seven migrant rights defenders sentenced Violations #Judicial Harassment Location #France
Status: Detained Lev Ponomarev 7 December 2018Human rights defender’s sentence reduced to 16 days in administrative detention Violations #Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment Location #Region: Europe and Central Asia #Russian Federation
Status: Disappeared Ernesto Sernas Garcia 8 November 2018Activists represented by disappeared human rights lawyer Ernesto Serna García acquitted Violations #Enforced Disappearance Location #Mexico
Status: Convicted ADHOC 28 September 2018ADHOC human rights defenders convicted in bribery case Violations #Judicial Harassment #Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment Location #Cambodia
Status: Attacked & Detained Comité Campesino del Altiplano – CCDA 16 August 2018CCDA members beaten and detained in Cobán Violations #Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment #Physical Attack Location #Guatemala
Status: Charged Fr. Stan Swamy 2 August 2018False charges filed against indigenous people’s rights defender in Jharkhand state Violations #Judicial Harassment Location #India
Status: Detained and charged Elena Semenova 20 July 2018Detention and charges against Elena Semenova Violations #Judicial Harassment #Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment Location #Kazakhstan
Status: Arrested & Charged Piyush Manush 22 June 2018Two human rights defenders arrested, charged for protesting against Salem-Chennai Green Corridor project Violations #Judicial Harassment #Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment Location #India
Status: Charged Sirawith Serithiwat 25 May 2018Fifteen human rights defenders arrested and charged for demanding free and fair elections Violations #Judicial Harassment #Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment Location #Region: Asia Pacific #Thailand
Status: Charged Jatupat Boonpattararaksa 25 May 2018Fifteen human rights defenders arrested and charged for demanding free and fair elections Violations #Judicial Harassment #Arrest / Detention / Imprisonment Location #Thailand