On 23 February 2016, armed police officers arrested and detained Patricks Vandalark, on charges of criminal libel and sedition. Police held him at Monrovia Central Prison until 1 March 2016. During his arrest, police officers injected him with an unknown substance, and his health has subsequently deteriorated.
في 31 مايو/أيار 2016، أمرت السلطات القضائية في المنامة بوقف الحكم الصادر ضد المدافعة عن حقوق الإنسان زينب الخواجة وإطلاق سراحها "لأسباب إنسانية"، بعد أن كانت محبوسة في سجن مدينة عيسى للنساء مع رضيعها البالغ من العمر عاما واحدا لأكثر من ثلاثة أشهر. وشملت التهم الموجهة لها "تدمير ممتلكات عامة"، وذلك بعد أن قامت بتمزيق صورة (ملك) البحرين مرتين.
On 19 April 2016, human rights defenders Leyla and Arif Yunus were allowed to leave Azerbaijan and travel to the Netherlands, where they reunited with their daughter. The human rights defenders will then go to Germany to receive urgent medical treatment. On 11 March 206, a Court in Baku had refused to grant Leyla Yunus and her husband special permission to temporarily leave the country to receive medical treatment abroad. Leyla and Arif Yunus appealed the decision.
On 13 September 2016, Joel Ogada's hearing was adjourned to 13 October. According to the National Coalition of Human Rights Defenders – Kenya (NCHRD-K), "[t]he hearing of his petition could not take place at Malindi Law Courts as his lawyer on record did not show up".
On 15 March 2016 human rights defender Mr Nelson García was killed in the aftermath of a violent eviction conducted in Río Lindo, Department of Cortés, Honduras. The human rights defender was returning home following a violent eviction conducted by the Public Order Military Police (Policía Militar de Orden Público) and the Cobras Special Force (Comando Especial Cobras) in the municipality of Río Lindo when he was intercepted by unidentified men who shot him in the face four times and killed him.
Human rights defender Ms Soni Sori has been the target of an ongoing slander campaign led by the Inspector General of the Police of Bastar region, Mr Kalluri, following a press conference in which she drew attention to an alleged arbitrary killing by the police. She further received direct threats from the Inspector General.
