El 27 de septiembre los gobiernos de America Latina y el Caribe pueden hacer historia y firmar el Acuerdo de Escazú.

Name: Osama Al-Najjar Location: United Arab Emirates (UAE) Reasons Behind Bars: Human rights defender and online activist Osama Al- Najjar, was arrested on 17 March 2014 in Abu Dhabi by state security forces.

Name: Irom Sharmila   Location: India Reason Behind Bars: Irom has been on a hunger strike since 2000 to highlight persistent human rights abuses committed by Indian security forces under the Armed Forces Special Powers Act of 1958 (AFSPA).

Name: Lu Maw Naing Location: Myanmar  Reason Behind Bars: On 25 January 2014, Burmese journalist Lu Maw Naing and several of his colleagues at Unity newspaper published the article, “A secret chemical weapons factory of the former generals, Chinese technicians and the commander-in-chief at Pauk Township”.

Name: Mahienour El-Masry Location: Egypt Update: CIVICUS was informed by a partner in Egypt that on December 27 2015, Mahienour El-Masry second demurrer was rejected by the court.

Name: Pierre Claver Mbonimpa Country: Burundi  Update:  He was provisionally released from jail but is in exile at the moment.

Name: Alaa Abdel Fattah Country: Egypt Update: He was again sentenced to 5 years in prison by a Criminal Court in Cairo during a re-trail of the case on 23 February 2015 for participating in a protest and assaulting a policeman.

Name: Xu Zhiyong Country: China Reason Behind Bars: Civil society activist and public-interest lawyer Xu Zhiyong was arrested in Beijing on 22 August 2013 in apparent reprisal for his role in the “New Citizens’ Movement,” a network of human rights defenders which advocates for greater democratic freedoms and rule of law in china.

Name: Adilur Rahman Khan Country: Bangladesh Update: The Attorney General's office at the instruction of the government, has filed an appeal at the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court against the order of stay and the matter is now waiting to be heard by the Appellate Division.

Name: Abdulhadi Abdulla al-Khawaja Country: Bahrain Update:  Mr.

Name: Tran Thi Thuy Country: Vietnam Reason Behind Bars: The prominent land rights activist, Tran Thi Thuy, was arrested in August 2010 on charges of ‘subversion’.

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Name: Nabeel Rajab Country: Bahrain Update: An arbitrary travel ban was placed on Nabeel Rajab in July and he remains unable to travel.

Name: Mohammad Seddigh Kaboudvand Country: Iran  Update: Mohammad Seddigh Kaboudvand, who has been detained in Tehran since July 2007, has repeatedly been denied requests for sick leave for treatment for a serious heart ailment.

Name: Eskinder Nega Country: Ethiopia Update: On 1 May 2013, Ethiopia’s Supreme Court upheld prominent journalist Eskinder Nega’s 18 year prison sentence.

Name: Ameer Makhoul Country: Israel Reason behind bars: Ameer Makhoul, prominent Palestinian human rights activist and Director of the Palestinian NGO, Ittijah: Union of Arab Community-Based Associations, was arrested at his home on 6 May 2010 and later charged with “assistance to the enemy in a time of war,” “aggravated espionage” and “contact with a foreign agent.