Kashmiri journalist and human rights defender Irfan Mehraj has been held in pre-trial detention for three years. Civil society organizations worldwide are urgently calling for his immediate release and an end to government repression of human rights defenders in India.

A wounded North Andover police officer known as Fitzsimmons hopes to be freed from jail before her trial. Sent back to custody two months ago, she has now appealed to the Supreme Judicial Court, asking for the chance to await her trial outside prison walls.