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Urgent action: Mohamed Farid Farag Farrag, detainee beaten and denied medical care -

UA: 45/10 Index: MDE 12/010/2010 Issue Date: 25 February 2010 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 7 APRIL 2010 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Egyptian detained linguist, Mohamed Farid Farag Farrag, was beaten in prison in Egypt at the start of (...)

Posté le 25 février 2010

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Urgent action: Guatemalan activists in danger -

UA: 41/10 Index: AMR 34/001/2010 Issue Date: 22 February 2010 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 5 APRIL 2010 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. The members of a network of activists in Guatemala are in grave danger. Three members of the network have (...)

Posté le 23 février 2010

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Urgent action (bad news): Five men executed in Bangladesh -

Further information on UA: 20/10 Index: ASA 13/004/2010 Issue Date: 1 February 2010 No further action is requested. Many thanks to all who sent appeals. Five men found guilty of killing Bangladesh's first president were executed in Dhaka Central Jail in the early hours of 28 January, 13 hours (...)

Posté le 2 février 2010

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Urgent action: Richard Blanco a Government official held in Venezuela -

UA: 346/09 Index: AMR 53/009/2009 Issue Date: 23 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 3 FEBRUARY 2010 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Richard Blanco, a male local government official from Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, is being detained (...)

Posté le 24 décembre 2009

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Urgent action: Police shoot two dead, more at risk -

UA: 343/09 Index: AMR 46/019/2009 Issue Date: 23 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 4 FEBRUARY 2010 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Two men were shot dead by police on 2 December, in their village in north-western Peru, during a search (...)

Posté le 24 décembre 2009

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Urgent action: Monks and nuns threatened with eviction -

UA: 348/09 Index: ASA 41/013/2009 Issue Date: 23 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 3 FEBRUARY 2010. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. A mob with official backing is attempting to evict nearly 200 Buddhist monks and nuns from a monastery in (...)

Posté le 24 décembre 2009

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Urgent action (follow-up): China to execute Akmal Shaikh on 29 December -

Further information on UA: 284/09 Index: ASA 17/074/2009 Issue Date: 23 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 29 DECEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. British national Akmal Shaikh has exhausted all his appeals against his (...)

Posté le 24 décembre 2009

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Urgent action: Mourners arrested on way to cleric’s funeral -

UA: 347/09 Index: MDE 13/132/2009 Issue Date: 22 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 2 FEBRUARY 2010 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. [ Lire la suite » ]

Posté le 23 décembre 2009

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Urgent action: Georgi Nakani, abducted in Russian federation -

UA: 345/09 Index: EUR 46/030/2009 Issue Date: 22 December2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 2 FEBRUARY 2010. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Georgi Nakani, a 21-year-old man from village of Neitrino in the Russian Federation Republic of (...)

Posté le 23 décembre 2009

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Armando Mendoza Ponce, an environmental campaigner threatened -

UA: 344/09 Index: AMR 41/066/2009 Issue Date: 22 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 2 FEBRUARY 2010 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Armando Mendoza Ponce, a 65-year-old male environmental campaigner in Mexico, was threatened with death (...)

Posté le 23 décembre 2009

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Urgent action (follow-up): Le Cong Dinh and three other people could face death penalty -

Further information on UA: 155/09 Index: ASA 41/012/2009 Issue Date: 22 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 8 FEBRUARY 2010 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Human rights lawyer Le Cong Dinh has been charged with attempting to overthrow the (...)

Posté le 23 décembre 2009

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Urgent action: Mustafa Ismail, a Kurdish lawyer detained, risks torture -

UA: 342/09 Index: MDE 24/038/2009 Issue Date: 21 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 7 JANUARY 2010. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Kurdish lawyer Mustafa Ismail was detained on 12 December, and has been held incommunicado since then. He is (...)

Posté le 22 décembre 2009

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Urgent action (follow-up): Father Nguyen Van Ly an ill catholic priest returned to prison -

Further information on UA: 313/09 Index: ASA 41/011/2009 Issue Date: 21 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 29 JANUARY 2010. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date Prisoner of conscience Father Nguyen Van Ly was returned to prison from hospital on (...)

Posté le 22 décembre 2009

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Urgent action: Majid Tavakkoli, an Iranian student leader at risk of torture -

UA: 341/09 Index: MDE 13/131/2009 Issue Date: 18 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 29 January 2010 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Student leader Majid Tavakkoli was arrested on 7 December after a demonstration. His whereabouts are (...)

Posté le 21 décembre 2009

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Urgent action: Taoufik Ben Brik, a jailed journalist must get medical treatment -

UA: 340/09 Index: MDE 30/022/2009 Issue Date: 18 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 29 JANUARY 2010. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Tunisian Journalist Taoufik Ben Brik, in jail on politically motivated charges, is in urgent need of (...)

Posté le 21 décembre 2009

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Urgent action (good news): Justice close for 800 families in Brazil -

Further Information on UA: 225/09 Index: AMR 19/021/2009 Issue Date: 18 December 2009 The families who suffered a violent forced eviction in August from the Olga Benário settlement in the south of São Paulo, have won a major victory in their long fight for housing rights. [ Lire la suite » (...)

Posté le 21 décembre 2009

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Urgent action (follow-up): Maryam Rostampour and Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad freed and still at risk of trial -

Further Information on UA: 95/09 Index: MDE 13/130/2009 Issue Date: 17 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 28 JANUARY 2010 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Maryam Rostampour and Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad, two Iranian female converts to (...)

Posté le 18 décembre 2009

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Urgent action: Fears for family and colleagues after killing of Mijail Martínez -

UA: 339/09 Index: AMR 53/008/2009 Human rights defender Mijail Martínez was shot dead on 26 November in Venezuela. He was working on a documentary film that featured the stories of people who have suffered human rights violations at the hands of police officers. There are concerns for the (...)

Posté le 17 décembre 2009

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Urgent action: Human rights defender Saed Yassin denied medical care -

UA: 338/09 Index: MDE 21/005/2009 Palestinian Autority: Human rights defender denied medical care Saed Yassin, a male Palestinian human rights defender, has been detained without proper judicial process by the Palestinian Authority in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. He is being denied (...)

Posté le 17 décembre 2009

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Urgent action: Oscar Barrios' family at risk after killing -

UA: 337/09 Index: AMR 53/007/2009 Issue Date: 15 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 26 JANUARY 2010. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. The lives of Oscar Barrios' family are in danger. He and his family have been subjected to a campaign (...)

Posté le 16 décembre 2009

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Urgent action (follow up): Police fail to arrest Nepalese army officer Major Niranjan Basnet -

Further information on UA: 331/09 Index: ASA 31/012/2009 Army Major Niranjan Basnet has not been arrested on his return to Nepal. Despite instructions from the Prime Minister that he be arrested, military police escorted him to the army's headquarters in the capital, Kathmandu. The army (...)

Posté le 15 décembre 2009

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Urgent action: Risk of torture for 17-year old in China ( Noor-Ul-Islam Sherbaz) -

UA: 336/09 Index: ASA 17/071/2009 Noor-Ul-Islam Sherbaz, a 17-year old boy, has been held incommunicado since 27 July in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in western China. He is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment and his family fear for his life. [ Lire (...)

Posté le 15 décembre 2009

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Urgent action (follow up): Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi, flogging of elderly woman may be imminent -

Further information on UA: 71/09 Index: MDE 23/037/2009 Issue Date: 14 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 25 JANUARY 2010 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. According to a report in the al-Riyadh newspaper, the Saudi Arabian Minister of (...)

Posté le 15 décembre 2009

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Urgent action: The family of Adnan Ibragimov at risk in Russian Federation -

UA: 335/09 Index: EUR 46/029/2009 Issue Date: 11 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 22 JANUARY 2010 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. The lives of Adnan Ibragimov, a 54-year-old man from Chechnya in the Russian Federation, and his family (...)

Posté le 14 décembre 2009

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Urgent action: Journalist Ma’an ‘Aqel risks torture -

UA: 334/09 Index: MDE 24/037/2009 Issue Date: 11 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 22 JANUARY 2010 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Journalist Ma'an ‘Aqel was arrested on 22 November in the Syrian capital, Damascus. He is now held (...)

Posté le 14 décembre 2009

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Urgent action (follow-up): Sokolov's detention extended further -

Further information on UA: 128/09 Index: EUR 46/028/2009 Issue Date: 11 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 21 JANUARY 2010 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. A court has rejected Alexei Sokolov's appeal, and extended his pre-trial (...)

Posté le 14 décembre 2009

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Urgent action (follow-up): European court rules on Igor Koktysh -

Further information on UA: 305/09 Index: EUR 50/007/2009 Issue Date: 11 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 22 JANUARY 2010 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. [ Lire la suite » (...)

Posté le 14 décembre 2009

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Urgent action (follow-up): Emin Abdullayev and Adnan Hajizade had their appeal hearing scheduled -

Further information on UA: 308/09 Index: EUR 55/011/2009 Issue Date: 11 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 22 JANUARY 2010 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Two jailed male Azerbaijani youth activists and bloggers will have their appeal (...)

Posté le 14 décembre 2009

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Urgent action (follow-up): Hengameh Shahidi, a female journalist sentenced -

Further Information on UA: 231/09 Index: MDE 13/129/2009 Issue Date: 10 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 21 JANUARY 2010. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. [ Lire la suite » (...)

Posté le 11 décembre 2009

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Urgent action (follow-up): Adelaida Plasencia Sierra living on disputed land shot -

Further information on UA: 15/09 Index: AMR 41/065/2009 Issue Date: 10 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 21 JANUARY 2010 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date A woman living in the Lomas del Poleo area of Chihuahua state, northern Mexico, was (...)

Posté le 11 décembre 2009

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Urgent action (follow-up): Six Colombians threatened via text message -

Further information on UA: 293/09 Index: AMR 23/031/2009 Issue Date: 10 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 21 JANUARY 2010. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date Six men in Cauca department, western Colombia, including Afro-descendant and (...)

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Urgent action (follow up): Juvenile offender Mohammad Reza Haddadi not executed -

Further information on UA: 71/08 Index: MDE 13/128/2009 The execution of Mohammad Reza Haddadi, a 21-year-old man, scheduled for 9 December, did not take place. No new execution date has been announced. He is held in Adelabad prison in Shiraz, southern Iran. Juvenile offenders have previously (...)

Posté le 10 décembre 2009

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Urgent action: Two women’s rights activists, Mehrnoush Etemadi and Hayedeh Tabesh, arrested -

UA: 333/09 Index: MDE 13/127/2009 Two women, Mehrnoush Etemadi and Hayedeh Tabesh, both members of the Campaign for Equality (also known as the One Million Signatures Campaign) have been arrested in Esfahan, central Iran, in relation with their peaceful activities for the Campaign. Mehrnoush (...)

Posté le 10 décembre 2009

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Urgent action: Jamal al-Hajji detained for raising human rights -

UA: 332/09 Index: MDE 19/006/2009 An outspoken critic of the human rights record of Libya, Jamal al-Hajji, was arrested on 9 December and apparently transferred to prison. Amnesty International considers him a prisoner of conscience, detained solely for his criticism of the Libyan authorities. (...)

Posté le 10 décembre 2009

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Urgent action (bad news): Kenneth Biros was executed in the US state of Ohio -

First execution under Ohio's new protocol Kenneth Biros was executed in the US state of Ohio on 8 December. He was sentenced to death for the murder of Tami Engstrom in 1991. Kenneth Biros received a single-drug lethal injection shortly after the US Supreme Court denied a request from his (...)

Posté le 10 décembre 2009

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Urgent action (follow up): Stay of execution for Yong Vui Kong -

Further information on UA: 296/09 Index: ASA 36/007/2009 Yong Vui Kong has received a stay of execution, after lawyers argued that his earlier withdrawal of an appeal was void due to his poor mental health. His appeal will now be heard by the Court of Appeal early in 2010: if it is (...)

Posté le 10 décembre 2009

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Urgent action: Trade unionist Jorge Chen Alvarez threatened with death -

UA: 329/09 Index: AMR 34/014/2009 Trade unionist Jorge Chen Alvarez, an official in the National Health Workers' Union, has received a death threat believed to be connected to his work improving health care services for pregnant women and girls. [ Lire la suite » (...)

Posté le 10 décembre 2009

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Urgent action: Army officer, Major Niranjan Basnet, sought over girl's murder -

UA: 331/09 Index: ASA 31/011/2009 Major Niranjan Basnet of the Nepal Army was charged by a civilian court in 2008 with the murder of a 15-year-old girl. He was recently found to be serving in a UN peacekeeping mission in Africa; the UN have now expelled him from the mission, and have (...)

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Urgent action: Tunisian man, Lotfi Dassi, at risk of torture -

UA: 330/09 Index: MDE 30/019/2009 Former political prisoner Lotfi Dassi was arrested by security forces in Tunisia on 23 November, apparently in relation to his activities to secure financial aid for families affected by floods in the town of Redeyef. The authorities have not acknowledged that (...)

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Urgent action: Jorge Molano, a human rights lawyer at risk -

UA: 323/09 Index: AMR 23/030/2009 Issue Date: 07 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 18 JANUARY 2010 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Human rights lawyer Jorge Molano is involved in a high-profile prosecution of a former army officer. He is (...)

Posté le 9 décembre 2009

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Urgent action: Ahmed Mustafa Ben-Mohammed, a political activist held incommunicado in Syria -

UA: 327/09 Index: MDE 24/036/2009 Issue Date: 8 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 19 JANUARY 2010 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Ahmed Mustafa Ben-Mohammed, usually known by his pen name of Pir Rostom, a male Syrian political activist, (...)

Posté le 9 décembre 2009

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Urgent action: ‘Ali Hussain Sibat sentenced to death for "sorcery" -

UA: 328/09 Index: MDE 23/036/2009 Issue Date: 08 December 2009. PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 19 JANUARY 2010 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. A Lebanese national has been sentenced to death for "sorcery" by a court in Saudi Arabia, and could be (...)

Posté le 9 décembre 2009

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Urgent action (bad news): Muhammad Basheer bin Sa'oud al-Ramaly al-Shammari, a Saudi Arabian man executed and crucified -

Further information on UA: 164/09 Index: MDE 23/035/2009 Issue Date: 07 December 2009 A 22-year-old man, Muhammad Basheer bin Sa'oud al-Ramaly al-Shammari, was beheaded in the Saudi Arabian city of Hail on 7 December. His body was later crucified. Crucifixions in Saudi Arabia take place (...)

Posté le 9 décembre 2009

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Urgent action (follow-up): Igor Koktysh,a detained Belarusian suffers asthma attack -

Further information on UA: 305/09 Index: EUR 50/006/2009 Issue Date: 7 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 18 JANUARY 2010. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Igor Koktysh, a male social activist, supporter of the Belarusian opposition and (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): Execution scheduled for juvenile offender:Mohammad Reza Haddadi -

Further information on UA: 71/08 Index: MDE 13/126/2009 Issue Date: 07 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 9 DECEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. The execution of Mohammad Reza Haddadi, a 21-year-old man, has been scheduled in the (...)

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Urgent action: Allow Aminatou Haidar a human rights defender to return home -

UA: 326/09 Index: MDE 29/014/2009 Issue Date: 04 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 15 JANUARY 2010 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. The Moroccan authorities confiscated Sahrawi human rights defender Aminatou Haidar's passport on 13 (...)

Posté le 7 décembre 2009

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Urgent action: Aakash Mallah and Noor Mohammad Khaskheli : two political activists disappeared -

UA: 325/09 Index: ASA 33/012/2009 Issue Date: 04 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 15 JANUARY 2010 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Aakash Mallah, Vice Chairman of the Sindh nationalist party Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz (JSQM), and JSQM (...)

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Urgent action (bad news): Bobby Wayne Woods was executed on 3 of December -

Further information on UA: 317/09 Index: AMR 51/123/2009 Issue Date: 04 December 2009 Bobby Wayne Woods was executed in the US state of Texas on the evening of 3 December. He was sentenced to death in 1998 for the murder of an 11-year-old girl in 1997. Bobby Woods received a lethal injection (...)

Posté le 7 décembre 2009

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Urgent action (follow-up): Wang Yonghang jailed for defending human rights -

Further information on UA: 201/09 Index: ASA 17/068/2009 Issue Date: 04 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 14 JANUARY 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Human rights lawyer Wang Yonghang has been sentenced to seven years' (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): Yong Vui Kong received a new execution date -

Further information on UA: 295/09 Index: ASA 36/005/2009 Issue Date: 04 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 11 DECEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Yong Vui Kong received a stay of execution on 3 December, but is now scheduled for (...)

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Urgent action: Hundreds facing execution in Iraq -

UA: 324/09 Index: MDE 14/037/2009 Issue Date: 03 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 14 JANUARY 2010 TO THE IRAQI EMBASSY OR DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIVE IN YOUR COUNTRY, ASKING FOR THEM TO BE FORWARDED . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. The (...)

Posté le 4 décembre 2009

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Urgent action: Medical treatment needed immediately -

UA: 322/09 Index: ASA 16/008/2009 Issue Date: 3 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 14 JANUARY 2010 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Three male Prisoners of conscience, U Gambira, Min Ko Naing and Zaw Htet Ko Ko are in need of immediate (...)

Posté le 4 décembre 2009

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Urgent action: Protester’s family at risk after killing -

UA: 321/09 Index: AMR 41/062/2009 Issue Date: 3 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 14 JANUARY 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. The family of Mariano Abarca Roblero and other environmental protesters in Chicomuselo, southern Mexico, (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): Ibrahim Zautdinovich Mankiev at risk of torture if extradited to Russia -

Further information on UA: 307/09 Index: MDE 12/034/2009 Issue Date: 3 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 14 JANUARY 2010 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Ibrahim Zautdinovich Mankiev, a 32-year-old Russian man of Ingush ethnicity, faces (...)

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Urgent action (follow up): Forcible return for Afghan family -

Further information on UA: 318/09 Index: EUR 50/005/2009 Eight Afghan nationals were deported to Dubai, United Arab Emirates on 28 November. The group had been held in the departure lounge of Boryspil airport in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, since they were detained on 16 November. They are at (...)

Posté le 3 décembre 2009

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Urgent action: Leonor Martínez a Human rights activist threatened and attacked -

UA: 320/09 Index: AMR 43/015/2009 Issue Date: 1 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 12 JANUARY 2010 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Human rights activist Leonor Martínez is being threatened and attacked because of her work in a civil (...)

Posté le 2 décembre 2009

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Urgent action (follow-up): Huang Qi jailed as prisoner of conscience -

Further information on UA: 172/08 Index: ASA 17/067/2009 Issue Date: 1 December 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 11 JANUARY 2010 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Human rights activist Huang Qi, who gave legal advice to victims of the 2008 (...)

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Urgent action: Kenneth Mosley, execution reset for 7 January 2010 -

Further information on UA: 240/09 Index: AMR 51/122/2009 Issue date: 30 November 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 06 January 2010 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Kenneth Mosley, who received a stay of execution in September from the US Supreme (...)

Posté le 1er décembre 2009

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Urgent action (follow up): Syrian Kurd Berzani Karro persecuted after forcible return -

Further information on UA: 257/09 Index: MDE 24/035/2009 Berzani Karro, a Syrian Kurdish man and possible prisoner of conscience, is reported to have been tortured while being held incommunicado for three months after his forcible return to Syria from Cyprus in June. He is now known to be in (...)

Posté le 30 novembre 2009

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Urgent action: Luz Elsia Almanza. Human rights defender's life in danger. -

UA: 319/09 Index: AMR 23/029/2009 The life of Luz Elsia Almanza, a female human rights defender in Colombia, is in danger, after a paramilitary group declared her to be a "military target". Luz Elsia Almanza works to end impunity in cases of enforced disappearances in Colombia. [ Lire la suite (...)

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Urgent action: Afghan women and children held in airport -

UA: 318/09 Index: EUR 50/004/2009 Eight Afghan nationals, four women and four children aged between four and 10 years, have been detained in the departure lounge of Boryspil airport in Kyiv, Ukraine since 16 November, and are at risk of being forcibly returned to Afghanistan via the United (...)

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Urgent action: Bobby Wayne Woods. Clemency sought on mental impairment claim -

UA: 317/09 Index: AMR 51/121/2009 Bobby Wayne Woods, a 44-year-old white man, is due to be executed in Texas on 3 December, his third execution date in two years. He was convicted in 1998 of the murder of a young girl in 1997. His lawyer is appealing for clemency on the grounds that Woods has (...)

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Urgent action (follow up): Stay of execution lifted in Kenneth Biros case -

Further Information on UA: 253/09 Index: AMR 51/119/2009 A federal court has lifted the stay of execution in the case of Kenneth Biros, who is now due to be put to death in Ohio on 8 December under the state's new lethal injection procedures. The Ohio parole board has voted against clemency, (...)

Posté le 27 novembre 2009

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Urgent action: Muhammad ‘Abd al-Qader al-Jasem, journalist detained in Kuwait -

UA: 316/09 Index: MDE 17/002/2009 Male Kuwaiti journalist, Muhammad ‘Abd al-Qader al-Jasem, was detained at a Criminal Investigation office in Kuwait City on 22 November. At a private meeting in October 2009, he criticised the Kuwaiti Prime Minister, Sheikh Nasser Al Sabah. He is a (...)

Posté le 26 novembre 2009

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Urgent action: Political activist, Yousef Dheeb al-Hmoud, held incommunicado -

UA: 315/09 Index: MDE 24/034/2009 Yousef Dheeb al-Hmoud, a male Syrian political activist, is being held incommunicado at an unknown location. He is at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. Yousef Dheeb al-Hmoud, aged 44, was arrested from his home in the city of Deir az-Zawr, eastern Syria, (...)

Posté le 26 novembre 2009

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Urgent action (follow-up): Aleksei Sokolov, an activist unlawfully detained -

Further information on UA: 128/09 Index: EUR 46/027/2009 Issue Date: 24 November 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 05 JANUARY 2010 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. [ Lire la suite » (...)

Posté le 25 novembre 2009

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Urgent action: Enforced disappearance of Ahmed Mahmoud Haddi -

UA: 314/09 Index: MDE 29/013/2009 Issue Date: 24 November 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 05 JANUARY 2010 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Ahmed Mahmoud Haddi, a Sahrawi man aged about 32, was abducted on 28 October by people suspected of being (...)

Posté le 25 novembre 2009

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Urgent action: Father Nguyen Van Ly, a priest falls seriously ill in prison -

UA: 313/09 Index: ASA 41/009/2009 Issue Date: 24 November 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 05 JANUARY 2010 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Imprisoned pro-democracy activist and Catholic priest Father Nguyen Van Ly suffered a suspected stroke on (...)

Posté le 25 novembre 2009

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Urgent action (good news): Zhuang Lu, a missing ngo worker returns home -

Further information on UA: 230/09 Index: ASA 17/066/2009 Issue Date: 24 November 2009 Zhuang Lu, a 27-year-old woman who worked for the Open Constitution Initiative (OCI, known as Gongmeng in Chinese), a legal aid and research organization, is now known to be staying at her parents' home (...)

Posté le 25 novembre 2009

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Urgent action (follow-up): Mercedes Murillo Monge, a human rights defender harassed by soldiers -

Further information on UA 232/09 Index: AMR 41/060/2009 Issue Date: 20 November 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 1 JANUARY 2010. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. A female Mexican human rights defender, who is an outspoken critic of human rights (...)

Posté le 23 novembre 2009

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Urgent action: Stop execution of Bangladeshi man -

UA: 312/09 Index: MDE 11/002/2009 On 16 November 2009, the Court of Cassation in Bahrain upheld the death penalty against Jassim Abdulmanan, a male Bangladeshi national. The execution is now pending ratification by the King, His Majesty Shaikh Hamad bin Issa Al Khalifa. If the King ratifies (...)

Posté le 19 novembre 2009

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Urgent action (follow up): Activist Mohammed Soudani sentenced after unfair trial -

Further information on UA: 295/09 Index: MDE 30/017/2009 Student activist Mohammed Soudani was sentenced following an unfair trial on 24 October, to four months' imprisonment. He was arrested on 22 October after meeting with two French journalists and was held incommunicado until 9 November. [ (...)

Posté le 19 novembre 2009

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Urgent action (follow up): Ohio looking to execute under new protocol -

Further Information on UA: 253/09 Index: AMR 51/117/2009 The State of Ohio has announced new lethal injection procedures and is looking to resume executions. It is seeking to execute Kenneth Biros on 8 December. Five other male prisoners in Ohio are also scheduled for execution in the coming (...)

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Urgent action (follow up): Protection needed for villagers in Mexico -

Further information on UA: 250/09 Index: AMR 41/059/2009 Four men on trial for an attack on human rights lawyer Ricardo Lagunes Gasca, and other inhabitants of Ejido Jotolá, southern Mexico, in September, have been intimidating witnesses and have threatened to kill and rape villagers since (...)

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Urgent action: Luis Galdámez, an Honduran radio journalist fears for his life -

UA: 309/09 Index: AMR 37/009/2009 Issue Date: 16 November 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 28 DECEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Luis Galdámez, a male journalist freelancing for an independent radio station in Honduras, has been (...)

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Urgent action: Zhao Lianhai, a Chinese activist at risk of torture -

UA: 311/09 Index: ASA 17/064/2009 Issue Date: 17 November 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 29 DECEMBER 2009. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Zhao Lianhai, father of a boy rendered ill by a batch of contaminated milk powder in China in 2008, has (...)

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Urgent action: Woman (Zarema Gaisanova) abducted in Chechnya -

UA: 310/09 Index: EUR 46/026/2009 Zarema Gaisanova, a 39-year-old Chechen woman, was abducted on 31 October in the Chechen capital, Grozny, in the Russian Federation's North Caucasus region. It appears that law enforcement officials may have been responsible for her abduction. She has not (...)

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Urgent action: Bloggers imprisoned after unfair trial -

UA: 308/09 Index: EUR 55/010/2009 Two male Azerbaijani youth activists and bloggers Emin Abdullayev (aged 30) and Adnan Hajizade (aged 26) have been sentenced to two and a half years and two years respectively in an unfair trial. Amnesty International believes the charges against them were (...)

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Urgent action: Ibrahim Zautdinovich Mankiev, a Russian national detained incomunicado -

UA: 307/09 Index: MDE 12/033/2009 Issue Date: 13 November 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 25 DECEMBER 2009. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Ibrahim Zautdinovich Mankiev, a 32-year-old Russian man of Ingush ethnicity, has been detained (...)

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Urgent action (good news): Stoning sentence quashed in Iran -

Further information on UA: 10/09 Index: MDE 13/122/2009 A man and a woman were released from prison in the central Iranian city of Esfahan on 4 October following their acquittal in a retrial after their convictions for “adultery while being married” were quashed by the Head of the (...)

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Urgent action: Indigenous teacher, Rolindo Vera, missing in Brazil -

UA: 306/09 Index: AMR 19/020/2009 Male teacher Rolindo Vera, a member of the Guarani Kaiowa Indigenous group, went missing on 30 October after a violent eviction carried out by armed men in Mato Groso do Sul state near Brazil's border with Paraguay. Another male teacher, Genivaldo Vera, (...)

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Urgent action (bad news): Ehsan (Esma’il) Fattahian, an Iranian Kurdish man executed -

Further information on UA: 271/09 Index: MDE 13/121/2009 Issue Date: 12 November 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 24 DECEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Ehsan (Esma'il) Fattahian, a male member of Iran's Kurdish minority, was executed (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi, Fahad and Hadyan face flogging -

Further information on UA: 71/09 Index: MDE 23/034/2009 Issue Date: 12 November 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 24 DECEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. [ Lire la suite » (...)

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Urgent action (bad news): John Muhammad executed in Virginia -

Further information on UA: 291/09 Index: AMR 51/115/2009 John Allen Muhammad was executed in Virginia on the evening of 10 November. He had been convicted in 2003 of capital murder in relation to a series of shootings that occurred across a number of jurisdictions in 2002. He made no final (...)

Posté le 12 novembre 2009

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Urgent action: Roma community forcibly evicted -

UA: 304/09 Index: EUR 30/013/2009 City authorities in the Italian capital, Rome, have forcibly evicted a community of about 400 Roma people. The majority of these homeless people, numbering some 100 families, have occupied an abandoned factory nearby. If evicted from the factory, the families (...)

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Urgent action (bad news): Nine executed in China -

Further information on UA: 294/09. Index: ASA 17/063/2009 Nine people - eight from the Uighur ethnic group and one of Han Chinese ethnicity - were executed in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in western China in early November. They were among 21 individuals sentenced in October in (...)

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Urgent action (good news): Turkmenistan environmental activist, Andrei Zatoka, released -

Further information on UA: 286/09 On 6 November, male environmentalist Andrei Zatoka was released after he paid a fine of 1,000 Manat (about US$350). Eight days earlier, on 29 October, he had been sentenced to five years' imprisonment after an unfair trial. According to sources in (...)

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Urgent action: Belarusian musician, Igor Koktysh, detained in Ukraine -

UA: 305/09 Index: EUR 50/003/2009 Igor Koktysh, a 29-year-old male social activist, supporter of the opposition and musician in Belarus, could be forcibly returned at any time from Ukraine, where he is at risk of the death penalty for fabricated charges. He is a prisoner of conscience, held (...)

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URGENT ACTION (follow up): Indigenous communities face reprisals -

Further information on UA: 300/09 Index: AMR 45/049/2009 Issue Date: 09 November 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 21 DECEMBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date [ Lire la suite » (...)

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URGENT ACTION: Ingrid Vergara, Colombian human rights defender at risk -

UA: 301/09 Index: AMR 23/027/2009 Issue Date: 09 November 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 21 DECEMBER 2009 TO: . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Female human rights defender Ingrid Vergara has received death threats and her daughter, 14-year-old (...)

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URGENT ACTION: Ehsan (Esma’il) Fattahian, Kurdish man faces execution on 11 November -

Further information UA: 271/09 Index: MDE 13/119/2009 Issue Date: 09 November 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 11 NOVEMBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Ehsan (Esma'il) Fattahian, a male member of Iran's Kurdish minority, is scheduled (...)

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Urgent action (bad news): two Sri Lankans and an Indian man have been put to death. -

Further information on UA 297/09 Index: MDE 31/017/2009 Issue Date: 05 November 2009 No further action is required from the UA network. Many thanks to all who sent appeals. Two Sri Lankans and an Indian man have been put to death. Sri Lankan nationals K M S Bandaranaike and Halima Nissa (...)

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Urgent action (bad news): Losang Gyaltse and Loyar were executed during October. -

Further information on UA: 97/09 Index: ASA 17/062/2009 Issue Date: 06 November 2009 No further action is requested from the UA network. Many thanks to all who sent appeals. Losang Gyaltse and Loyar were executed during October. The two Tibetan men were sentenced to death on 8 April 2009 by (...)

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Urgent action (bad news): Khristian Oliver, twentieth execution of the year in Texas -

Further information on UA: 266/09 Index: AMR 51/114/2009 Issue Date: 06 November 2009 NO FURTHER ACTION IS REQUESTED. MANY THANKS TO ALL WHO SENT APPEALS. Khristian Oliver was executed in the US state of Texas on the evening of 5 November. He was sentenced to death in 1999 for the murder of (...)

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Urgent action (follow up): Tortured Guyanese man may face unfair trial -

Further information on UA: 298/09 Index: AMR 35/003/2009 Issue Date: 6 November 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 18 DECEMBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. A 20-year-old man held incommunicado at a police station in Guyana has been (...)

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Urgent action: Gertrude Hambira, Zimbabwean trade unionist under threat -

UA: 303/09 Index: AFR 46/027/2009 Issue Date: 06 November 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 18 DECEMBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. The home of 48-year-old Gertrude Hambira, a prominent female trade union activist in Zimbabwe, was (...)

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Urgent action: Turkish man, Ali Agirdas, at risk of beheading -

UA: 302/09 Index: MDE 23/033/2009 A 29-year-old Turkish man, Ali Agirdas, is at imminent risk of beheading in Saudi Arabia. His sentence is being considered by the Supreme Judicial Council, which is headed by the King. Ali Agirdas could be executed at any time if the Council approves his (...)

Posté le 9 novembre 2009

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Urgent action (follow up): Elderly prisoner of conscience, Haytham al-Maleh, charged -

Further information on UA: 281/09 Index: MDE 24/030/2009 Haytham al-Maleh, a 78-year-old male prisoner of conscience, was charged by a military judge on 3 November with "conveying false news" about the human rights situation in Syria. He faces up to 15 years' imprisonment if convicted. [ (...)

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Urgent action (bad news): Three beheaded -

Further information on UA: 180/07 Index: MDE 23/032/2009 Two Sri Lankans and an Indian man have been put to death in Saudi Arabia. Sri Lankan nationals K M S Bandaranaike and Halima Nissa Cader, along with Cader's Indian husband Muhammad Naushad Barmil, were executed on 4 November in the (...)

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Urgent action (good news): Detained journalists ,Vettivel Jasikaran and his wife Valarmathi Jasikaran, freed in Sri Lanka -

ASA37/024/2009 FU: UA 110/08 Journalist Vettivel Jasikaran and his wife Valarmathi Jasikaran were released on 26 October. They had been arbitrarily detained since March 2008 under anti-terror legislation. The police Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) had arrested Vettivel Jasikaran on (...)

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Urgent action: Indigenous communities facing eviction -

UA: 300/09 Index: AMR 45/048/2009 Five Indigenous communities in eastern Paraguay are in imminent danger of eviction from their ancestral lands: 150 families would be left homeless with no access to clean water or adequate medical care and land to cultivate [ Lire la suite » (...)

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Urgent action: Murdered man's brother threatened -

UA: 299/09 Index: AMR 23/026/2009 A man whose brother was killed by the security forces has received death threats. His life is in danger. [ Lire la suite » ]

Posté le 9 novembre 2009

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Urgent action: Yong Vui Kong, a malaysian man facing execution in Singapore -

UA: 296/09 Index: ASA 36/004/2009 Issue Date: 03 November 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 15 DECEMBER 2009. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Yong Vui Kong was sentenced to death for drug trafficking in January 2009. He had exhausted his appeals by (...)

Posté le 4 novembre 2009

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Urgent action: Yasser Ismail, Basheer Ismail, ‘Arif Far’i, Mubarek Ghalib and Murad Ghalib under sentence of death -

UA: 297/09 Index: MDE 31/016/2009 Issue Date: 03 November 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 15 DECEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Five men under sentence of death in Yemen could be executed as early as 11 November: they have exhausted (...)

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Urgent action: Mohammed Soudani a tunisian student activist held incommunicado -

UA: 295/09 Index: MDE 30/014/2009 Issue Date: 03 November 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 15 DECEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Male student activist Mohammed Soudani is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment in custody in (...)

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Urgent action: Nouravie Wilfred incommunicado, Deonarine Rafick and a young boy detained -

UA: 298/09 Index: AMR 35/002/2009 Issue Date: 03 November 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 15 DECEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. According to press reports, a 20 year-old man, Nouravie Wilfred, is being held incommunicado without (...)

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Urgent action: Stop paramilitary death threats -

UA: 293/09 Index: AMR 23/025/2009 Issue Date: 3 November 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 15 DECEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. A paramilitary group has threatened to kill six individuals and members of five organizations in western (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): Muhammad Basheer al-Ramaly, at risk of beheading -

Further information on UA: 164/09 Index: MDE 23/030/2009 Issue Date: 03 November 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 15 DECEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Saudi Arabia's Court of Cassation has confirmed that a 22-year-old man, Muhammad (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): Hengameh Shahidi, a journalist released on bail -

Further information on UA: 231/09 Index: MDE 13/116/2009 Issue Date: 03 November 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 15 DECEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Hengameh Shahidi, a female journalist, was released on bail on 1 November after (...)

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Urgent action (follow up): Attack on shelter for migrants in Mexico -

Further information on UA: 277/09 Indeex: AMR 41/057/2009 Issue Date: 2 November 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 14 DECEMBER 2009 TO: Check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Staff at a shelter for undocumented migrants in north-eastern Mexico have received (...)

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Urgent action: Prevent executions for Uighur unrest -

UA: 294/09 Index: ASA 17/061/2009 Issue Date: 2 November 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 14 DECEMBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Nine people (apparently, eight Uighurs and one Han Chinese) have been sentenced to death for involvement (...)

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Urgent action: Indonesian students face forced eviction -

UA: 292/09 Index: ASA 21/018/2009 Issue Date: 2 November 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 14 DECEMBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. An estimated 900 students from a Christian college in Jakarta, Indonesia's capital, are facing (...)

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Urgent action (follow up): Some journalists freed, many still in prison -

Further information on UA: 171/09 Index; MDE 13/115/2009 Issue Date: 30 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 8 DECEMBER 2009 Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Maziar Bahari and Mohammad Ghouchani were released on bail on 17 and 29 October (...)

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Urgent action: Uighur journalist Hairat Niyaz detained, risks torture -

UA: 290/09 Index: ASA 17/060/2009 Uighur journalist Hairat Niyaz was taken from his home on 1 October. On 4 October, police delivered a notice to his family which said he had been arrested for "endangering state security." He is at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. [ Lire la suite » (...)

Posté le 30 octobre 2009

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Urgent action: Execution set in sniper shooting case -

UA: 291/09 Index: AMR 51/112/2009 John Allen Muhammad is due to be executed in Virginia on 10 November. He was convicted in 2003 of capital murder in relation to a series of shootings in 2002. His lawyers are seeking clemency on the grounds that he suffers from serious mental impairment. [ (...)

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Urgent action (follow up): Belarus supreme court rejects second appeal -

Further information on UA: 218/09 Index: EUR 49/014/2009 On 27 October, the Supreme Court of Belarus rejected the appeal of Andrei Zhuk, the second man whose death sentence has been upheld within the last month. Once he receives written notification of the rejection, Andrei Zhuk will have 10 (...)

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Urgent action: A political activist, Yoab Syatfle, faces death threats -

UA: 289/09 Index: ASA 21/017/2009 Yoab Syatfle, a political activist in the Indonesian province of West Papua, has received repeated death threats. The threats, sent via SMS to his mobile phone, are apparently related to his peaceful political activities. His life could be in danger. On 26 (...)

Posté le 29 octobre 2009

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Urgent action: Frederica Jansz, Munza Mushataq, two Sri Lankan journalists threatened -

UA: 288/09 Index: ASA 37/023/2009 Issue Date: 27 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 8 DECEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Two female editors at a national newspaper in Sri Lanka, Frederica Jansz and Munza Mushataq, have received (...)

Posté le 28 octobre 2009

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Urgent action: Roselio de la Cruz González, José Manuel de la Torre Hernández tortured in Mexico -

UA: 287/09 Index: AMR 41/056/2009 Issue Date: 27 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 8 DECEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Two men, both members of a peasant farmers' organization in Chiapas state, southern Mexico, have been (...)

Posté le 28 octobre 2009

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Urgent action: Environmentalist (Andrei Zatoka) arrested -

UA: 286/09 Index: EUR 61/006/2009 Andrei Zatoka, a 53-year-old male environmentalist, was arrested by police in his home town of Dashoguz, northern Turkmenistan, on 20 October. He is believed to be held in a pre-trial detention centre in the town, where he is at risk of torture or other (...)

Posté le 27 octobre 2009

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Urgent action (follow up): Dr Mohammad Maleki, fears for life of detained Iranian scholar -

Further Information on UA: 233/09 Index: MDE 13/113/2009 Issue Date: 26 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 7 DECEMBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Dr Mohammad Maleki, a 76-year old Iranian scholar and former Chancellor of Tehran (...)

Posté le 27 octobre 2009

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Urgent action (good news): Jakarkhon Sheikho ‘Ali, prisoner of conscience released! -

Further information on UA 176/09 Index: MDE 24/029/2009 Issue Date: 23 October 2009 No further action is requested from the UA network. Many thanks to all who sent appeals. Prisoner of conscience Jakarkhon Sheikho ‘Ali was released without charge on 3 October. He had been detained (...)

Posté le 27 octobre 2009

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Urgent action (follow-up): Haytham al-Maleh is facing prison -

Further information on UA: 281/09 Index: MDE 24/028/2009 Issue Date: 22 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 3 DECEMBER 2009. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Haytham al-Maleh, who is 78, will appear before a court on 25 October. If he is tried (...)

Posté le 23 octobre 2009

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Urgent action (follow-up): Where is Muhammad al-Maqalih? -

Further Information on UA: 246/09 Index: MDE 31/013/2009 Issue Date: 22 October 2009. PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 3 DECEMBER 2009. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Yemeni journalist Muhammad al-Maqalih is now believed to be detained at a prison run (...)

Posté le 23 octobre 2009

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Urgent action (follow up): stay of execution for Safar Angooti -

Further information on UA: 275/09 Index: MDE 13/111/2009 Safar Angooti, now aged 20, was due to be executed on 21 October, for a crime committed when he was 17, but received a one-month stay of execution. According to his lawyer, he was granted the one-month stay to allow time to persuade the (...)

Posté le 22 octobre 2009

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Urgent action (follow up): Abducted community activist , Juan Almonte Herrera, may be dead -

Further Information on UA: 264/09 Index: AMR 27/007/2009 Information passed to relatives of missing community activist Juan Almonte Herrera in the Dominican Republic suggests that he may be dead. His family has been threatened and intimidated. [ Lire la suite » (...)

Posté le 22 octobre 2009

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Urgent action (follow up): Woman (Kobra Babaei) may face imminent execution by stoning -

Further information on UA: 50/09 Index: MDE 13/110/2009 Kobra Babaei, an Iranian woman, is feared to be at imminent risk of stoning to death after her husband Rahim Mohammadi was hanged for “sodomy” on 5 October. The Iranian authorities did not inform Rahim Mohammadi's lawyer that (...)

Posté le 22 octobre 2009

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Urgent action: seven men at risk of execution -

UA: 285/09 Index: MDE 13/109/2009 Seven men, members of Iran's Ahwazi Arab minority, are at risk of imminent execution in Ahvaz city, the capital of Khuzestan province. They were convicted in an unfair trial of “acting against national security” and killing male Shi'a cleric Sheikh (...)

Posté le 22 octobre 2009

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Urgent action (follow up): Mohammad Pour Abdollah, student activist on trial -

Further information on UA: 60/09 Index: MDE 13/108/2009 Mohammad Pour Abdollah, a male student arrested in February in Iran's capital, Tehran, is now on trial, apparently on charges related to national security for his activities in an Iranian student organization. He is still detained in (...)

Posté le 22 octobre 2009

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Urgent action: Akmal Shaikh, British man facing execution -

UA: 284/09 Index: ASA 17/059/2009 Issue Date: 19 October 2009. PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 30 NOVEMBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. URGENT ACTION British man facing execution China: British national Akmal Shaikh, who is believed to be (...)

Posté le 20 octobre 2009

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Urgent action (follow up): UN committee: do not execute Yuzepchuk! -

Further information on UA: 218/09 Index: EUR 49/012/2009 Issue Date: 19 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 24 NOVEMBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. The UN Human Rights Committee registered Vasily Yuzepchuk's case on 12 (...)

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Urgent action: Villagers threatened -

UA: 283/09 Index: AMR 41/055/2009 Issue Date: 16 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 27 NOVEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. The inhabitants of a village in southern Mexico, have been attacked repeatedly by a group of armed men, (...)

Posté le 19 octobre 2009

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Urgent action: Zhou Yongjun, a Chinese activist facing trial -

UA: 278/09 Index: ASA 17/058/2009 Issue Date: 16 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 27 NOVEMBER 2009. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. A Chinese man, pro-democracy activist Zhou Yongjun, who has been living in the USA since 1992, is about to (...)

Posté le 19 octobre 2009

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Urgent action: Indigenous community faces illegal eviction -

UA: 282/09 Index: AMR 13/001/2009 Issue Date: 16 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 27 NOVEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. A landowner attempting to drive an Indigenous community off their ancestral land in north-western (...)

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Urgent action: Haytham al-Maleh, an elderly Syrian lawyer held incommunicado -

UA: 281/09 Index: MDE 24/027/2009 Issue Date: 16 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 27 NOVEMBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. A 78-year-old male human rights lawyer has been held incommunicado since his arrest by Syrian Political (...)

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Urgent action: Critic of cuban government denied exit visa -

UA: 280/09 Index: AMR 25/010/2009 Juan Juan Almeida, the son of a former leader of the 1959 Cuban revolution, has been refused permission to leave the country after he criticized the authorities. Amnesty International fears that the restrictions on his movement are a form of unnecessary (...)

Posté le 16 octobre 2009

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Urgent action: Mehdi Karroubi, a presidential election candidate threatened -

UA: 279/09 Index: MDE 13/107/2009 Issue Date: 15 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 26 NOVEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Mehdi Karroubi, a 72-year-old male cleric who was a candidate in June's disputed presidential (...)

Posté le 16 octobre 2009

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Urgent action: Families evicted by force -

UA: 276/09 Index: ASA 23/021/2009 Issue Date: 14 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 25 NOVEMBER 2009. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. At least 115 families were forcibly evicted on 9-10 October, and had their homes demolished, in a village (...)

Posté le 16 octobre 2009

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Urgent action (good news): Buuveibaatar, a mongolian death row inmate pardoned -

Further Information on UA: 206/09 Index: ASA 30/004/2009 Issue Date: 14 October 2009 Buuveibaatar, a 33-year old Mongolian man sentenced to death for murder, has been granted a pardon by the Mongolian President. Buuveibaatar was sentenced to death for the murder of his former girlfriend's new (...)

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Urgent action: Jesús Sánchez de la Barquera, an environmental campaigner shot -

UA: 273/09 Index: AMR 41/054/2009 Issue Date: 13 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 24 NOVEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Male environmentalist Jesús Sánchez de la Barquera has been shot and wounded outside his home in Mexico (...)

Posté le 14 octobre 2009

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Urgent action (follow-up): Clemency deadline passes for Yuzepchuk -

Further information on UA: 218/09 Index: EUR 49/012/2009 Issue Date: 13 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 24 NOVEMBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has allowed the deadline for clemency for Vasily (...)

Posté le 14 octobre 2009

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Urgent action (follow up): Stay of execution for iranian woman -

Further information on UA: 59/08 Index: MDE 13/106/2009 A 35-year old Iranian woman who had been due to be put to death on 11 October has received a stay of execution. She was convicted of murdering her 74-year-old husband in 2003. [ Lire la suite » (...)

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Urgent action (follow up): One juvenile executed; another at risk -

Further information on UA: 275/09 Index: MDE 13/105/2009 Issue Date: 12 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 19 OCTOBER 2009 : Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Iranian male juvenile Behnoud Shojaee, aged 21, was executed in Evin prison, Tehran, (...)

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Urgent action: Migrants threatened and attacked in Mexico -

UA: 277/09 Index: AMR 41/053/2009 Issue Date: 9 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 20 NOVEMBER 2009 . Check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Migrants in the city of Saltillo northeastern Mexico have been repeatedly threatened by the local residents and (...)

Posté le 12 octobre 2009

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Urgent action: Vu Hung, a prisoner of conscience sentenced -

Further information on ua 18/09 Index: ASA 41/008/2009 Issue Date: 09 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 19 NOVEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Vu Hung, a male teacher and pro-democracy activist, has been sentenced to three (...)

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Urgent action: Paramilitaries threaten indigenous leaders -

UA: 274/09 Index: AMR 23/024/2009 Issue Date: 09 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 19 NOVEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. A paramilitary group has threatened to kill Indigenous leaders in the west-central Colombian Department of (...)

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Urgent action: Yan Dongfei and Qiao Yongfang,an ageing couple face jail for religious beliefs -

Further information on ua 163/09 Index: ASA 17/057/2009 Issue Date: 09 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 20 NOVEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. An elderly couple are about to be put on trial because they practice Falun Gong. (...)

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Urgent action: Juan Almonte Herrera, an activist incommunicado detained -

UA: 264/09 Index: AMR 27/006/2009 Issue Date: 09 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 20 NOVEMBER 2009. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. The whereabouts of male community activist Juan Almonte Herrera have not been known since he was abducted (...)

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Urgent action: Two juveniles to be executed within days -

UA: 275/09 Index: MDE 13/103/09 Issue Date: 09 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 11 OCTOBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Two Iranian male juveniles are at risk of imminent execution in the capital, Tehran, for murders they were (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): Akram Mahdavi,an Iranian woman at imminent risk of execution -

Further information on UA: 59/08 Index: MDE 13/104/2009 Issue Date: 9 October 2009. PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 11 OCTOBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. A 35-year old Iranian woman, Akram Mahdavi, may be at imminent risk of execution for (...)

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Urgent action (good news): No death penalty for former secret detainee:Ahmed Ghailani -

Further information on UA: 178/09 Index: AMR 51/110/2009 Issue Date: 08 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 19 NOVEMBER 2009. The US administration has decided not to seek the death penalty against male Tanzanian national Ahmed Ghailani at his forthcoming federal trial. Before being (...)

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Urgent action (good news): Khaled Kenjo, a Syrian Kurdish man no longer incommunicado -

Further Information on UA: 267/09 Index: MDE 24/026/2009 Issue Date: 08 October 2009 Khaled Kenjo, a Syrian Kurdish man held incommunicado after his forcible return from Germany, is now known to be held in Qamishli prison in north-eastern Syria, charged with spreading “false” news. (...)

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Urgent action: Halt executions of Kurdish prisoners Habibollah Latifi, Ehsan (Esma’il) Fattahian and Sherko Moarefi -

UA: 271/09 Index: MDE 13/102/2009 Issue Date: 08 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 19 NOVEMBER 2009. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Three men, members of Iran's Kurdish minority, are at risk of imminent execution. This may be in reprisal (...)

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Urgent action: Haitian migrants at risk in Dominican Republic -

UA: 272/09 Index: AMR 27/005/2009 Issue Date: 08 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 19 NOVEMBER 2009. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Twenty-five male Haitian migrants have been collectively expelled from the Dominican Republic after being (...)

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Urgent action: Nguyen Hoang Hai, a Vietnamese prisoner held incommunicado -

UA: 270/09 Index: ASA 41/007/2009 Issue Date: 08 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 19 NOVEMBER 2009. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Nguyen Hoang Hai, a male prisoner of conscience who blogged under the name Dieu Cay, has been transferred (...)

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Urgent action (good news): All 36 detainees in Iraq have been released -

Further information on UA: 212/09 Index: MDE 14/034/2009 The 36 Iranians detained by the Iraqi security forces were released on 7 October, and have been taken back to Camp Ashraf. The 36 men, who had been arrested in Camp Ashraf in July, had been held at a police station, some 25km from the (...)

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Urgent action (follow up): Stop execution in Belarus .The Supreme Court of Belarus has rejected Vasily Yusepchuk's appeal -

Further information on UA: 218/09 Index: EUR 49/011/2009 The Supreme Court of Belarus has rejected Vasily Yusepchuk's appeal against the death penalty. He now has until 12 October to apply for clemency from President Lukashenka. [ Lire la suite » (...)

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Urgent action: Outspoken female journalist, Dileesha Abeysundera, under threat -

UA: 269/09 Index: ASA 37/021/2009 Journalist and media rights activist, Dileesha Abeysundera is in danger after a gang of unidentified people threatened her and tried to forcefully gain access to her property in Sri Lanka. [ Lire la suite » (...)

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Urgent action: Inessa Karkhu, a prisoner denied sight-saving treatment -

UA: 268/09 Index: EUR 57/003/2009 Issue Date: 06 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 17 NOVEMBER 2009. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. A female prisoner in Kazakstan, Inessa Karkhu, is not receiving essential medical treatment for glaucoma, a (...)

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Urgent action: Khaled Kenjo, a Syrian kurdish man held incommunicado -

UA: 267/09 Index: MDE 24/025/2009 Issue Date: 06 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 17 NOVEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. A Syrian Kurdish man has been held without access to the outside world for over three weeks after he was (...)

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Urgent action: Texas execution of Khristian Oliver looms in jury bible case -

UA: 266/09 Index: AMR 51/108/2009 Issue Date: 6 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 05 NOVEMBER 2009. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Khristian Oliver, a 32-year old man, is due to be executed in Texas on 5 November. He was sentenced to death (...)

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Urgent acyion (follow-up): Detainees held incommunicado risk torture -

Further information on UA: 212/09 Index: MDE 14/032/2009 .Issue Date: 06 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BY 17 NOVEMBER 2009: via the e-mail addresses below, when available, as well as via the Iraqi embassy or diplomatic representative in your country, asking them to forward your appeals. (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): Ohio governor stays two executions (Lawrence Reynolds and Darryl Durr) -

Further Information on UA: 253/09 Index: AMR 51/109/2009 Issue Date: 6 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 17 NOVEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. The Governor of Ohio has reprieved two male prisoners who were facing execution in (...)

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Urgent action (follow up): Migrants and asylum-seekers still in danger -

Further information on UA: 247/09 Index: EUR 21/016/09 Issue Date: 5 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 16 NOVEMBER 2009 TO:. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. The French authorities have released most of the 138 migrants and asylum-seekers (...)

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Urgent action: Gustavo de la Rosa Hickerson, human rights lawyer has been threatened with death -

UA: 265/09 Index: AMR 41/052/2009 Issue Date: 05 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 16 NOVEMBER 2009 TO:. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Human rights lawyer Gustavo de la Rosa Hickerson has been threatened with death because of his work in (...)

Posté le 6 octobre 2009

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Urgent action: Attacks on journalists must stop -

UA: 263/09 Index: AMR 37/007/2009 Issue Date: 2 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 13 NOVEMBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. [ Lire la suite » ]

Posté le 5 octobre 2009

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Urgent action: Investigation needed after migrant shot dead -

UA: 261/09 Index: AMR 41/051/09 Issue Date: 1 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 12 November 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the date above: A group of seven irregular migrants travelling through Chiapas state were shot at by members of the security (...)

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Urgent action: Review evidence after torture claim -

UA:260/09 Index: ASA 17/055/2009 Issue date: 1 October PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 12 NOVEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Nine men on trial in China's central Henan province are now known to have said they were tortured in order (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): Ali Bikas, Shiva Nazar Ahari, Naseh Faridi, human rights defenders remain at risk -

Further information on UA: 239/09 Index: MDE 13/101/2009 Issue Date: 1 October 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 12 November . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. [ Lire la suite » ]

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Urgent action (follow-up): Muhammad al-Maqalih, a journalist detained incommunicado -

Further Information see UA: 246/09 Index: MDE 31/013/2009 Issue Date: 1 October 2009. PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 12 November 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. A male Yemeni journalist, Muhammad al-Maqalih, was abducted in the capital, (...)

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Urgent action: Villagers in danger in southern Mexico -

UA: 250/09 Index: AMR 41/049/2009 People in the village of Ejido Jotolá, Chiapas state, southern Mexico, are at risk of attack from an armed group which is threatening people in the area. The group attacked a visiting human rights lawyer and shot one of the villagers. The authorities have done (...)

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Urgent action: Uighur website editor at risk of torture -

UA: 262/09 Index: ASA 17/056/2009 Dilixiati Paerhati, editor of a Uighur website Diyarim.com, has not been seen since 7 August. His current whereabouts are unknown. There are fears that he is being held in incommunicado detention and is at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. On 7 August, (...)

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Urgent action: 3 more Ohio executions by human rights day? -

UA: 253/09 Index: AMR 51/107/2009 Issue Date: 29 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 10 NOVEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Three men on death row in the State of Ohio are due to be executed by lethal injection by early (...)

Posté le 30 septembre 2009

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Urgent action: Jailed activist denied vital medical treatment -

UA: 259/09 Index: ASA 16/007/2009 Imprisoned pro-democracy activist Robert San Aung is in need of urgent medical attention: he has lost the sight in one eye since he was moved to the north-western prison of Kale, in Sagaing Division, in late 2008. He has not been allowed to see an eye (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): One more soldier released -

AFR29/005/2009 - second update of UA 204/09 (AFR 29/001/2009) Guinea: Another of the soldiers held without charge in Guinea has been released. The 10 others are still detained incommunicado and are at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. Colonel Fodé Bacar Sylla was released without charge (...)

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Urgent action: Norma Cruz, a woman threatened for defending rape victim -

UA: 258/09 Index: AMR 34/012/2009 Issue Date: 25 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 06/11/2009. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Guatemalan human rights defender Norma Cruz runs a women's rights organization: she and her colleagues (...)

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Berzani Karro, a syrian kurd has disappeared and risks torture -

UA: 257/09 Index: MDE 24/024/2009 Issue Date: 24 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 6 NOVEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. A Syrian Kurdish man has been forcibly returned to Syria from Cyprus. He was detained on arrival, and has (...)

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Urgent action: Indigenous group attacked by armed men -

UA: 254/09 Index: AMR 19/017/09 Issue Date: 25 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 06 November. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. [ Lire la suite » ]

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Urgent action: Fear for safety of evicted two indigenous rural communities -

UA: 256/09 Index: AMR 34/011/2009 Issue Date: 25 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 06 November 2009. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Two indigenous rural communities have been forcibly evicted from their homes in Panzós municipality, (...)

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Urgent action: Abuses escalate in crackdown -

UA: 255/09 Index: AMR 37/006/2009 Issue Date: 25 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 06 November . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. [ Lire la suite » ]

Posté le 28 septembre 2009

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Urgent action (follow-up): Arrested migrants and asylum-seekers at risk -

Further information on UA: 247/09 Index: EUR 21/015/2009 Issue Date: 25 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 6 November 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. French authorities have evicted over 278 migrants and asylum-seekers from their (...)

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Urgent action: two Uighur men at risk of torture -

UA: 252/09 Index: ASA 17/053/2009 Haji Memet and Abdusalam Nasir were detained on 23 September, in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in northwest China, reportedly on suspicion of leaking “state secrets”. The “state secrets” are believed to be related to (...)

Posté le 25 septembre 2009

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Urgent action (good news): Stay extended following Romell Broom failed execution -

Further information on: 245/09 Index: AMR 51/105/2009 Issue Date: 24 September 2009 A US federal judge has extended a stay of execution in the case of Romell Broom by two months. Romell Broom, a 53-year-old male African American death row prisoner, was subjected to a failed attempt by the (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): Kyaw Zaw Lwin, a US citizen tortured in Yangon -

Further information on UA: 242/09 Index: ASA 16/006/2009 Issue Date: 24 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 16 October . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. [ Lire la suite » (...)

Posté le 25 septembre 2009

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Urgent action (good news): US supreme court stays Kenneth Mosley's execution in Texas -

Further information on UA: 240/09 Index: AMR 51/106/2009 Issue date: 24 September 2009 On 23 September, the US Supreme Court stayed the execution of Kenneth Mosley, a 51-year-old African American man scheduled to be executed in Texas on 24 September. Mosley has spent 12 years on death row for (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): demand justice for Guarani Kaiowa families -

Further information on UA: 229/09 Index: AMR 19/016/2009 Two days after being evicted from their ancestral lands the Laranjeira Ñanderu community face further hardships after farmers burnt down their houses and destroyed the belongings that they had intended to collect at a later date. [ Lire (...)

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Urgent action: Human rights defenders under attack -

AMR37/005/2009 - UA 251/09 Police officers fired tear gas into the office of Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared in Honduras (Comité de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras, COFADEH). The incident occurred amid increasing tension and concern for human rights following the (...)

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Urgent action: Four human rights defenders threatened -

UA: 249/09 Index: AFR 62/017/2009 Issue Date: 22 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 3 NOVEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Four human rights defenders in the city of Lubumbashi, Katanga province, south-eastern Democratic (...)

Posté le 23 septembre 2009

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Urgent action (follow-up): Abdollah Momeni,an iranian detainee "confesses" in court -

Further information on UA: 244/09 Index: MDE 13/100/2009 Issue Date: 22 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 3 NOVEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. [ Lire la suite » (...)

Posté le 23 septembre 2009

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Urgent action: Soldier detained incommunicado in Guinea -

UA: 248/09 Index: AFR 29/004/2009 Issue Date: 21 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 2 NOVEMBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. URGENT ACTION Soldier detained incommunicado in Guinea Guinea: A male soldier from Guinea is being (...)

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Urgent action: Hundreds of asylum-seekers and migrants face eviction and removal in France -

UA: 247/09 Index: EUR 21/014/2009 Issue Date: 18 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 30 OCTOBER 2009 .Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Hundreds of asylum-seekers and migrants are at imminent risk of forced eviction from encampments near (...)

Posté le 21 septembre 2009

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Urgent action: Muhammad al-Maqalih,a Yemeni journalist abducted -

UA: 246/09 Index: MDE 31/011/2009 Issue Date: 18 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 30 OCTOBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. A male Yemeni journalist, Muhammad al-Maqalih, has been abducted in the capital, Sana'a, after (...)

Posté le 21 septembre 2009

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Urgent action: Romell Broom: his execution attempt fails: new date set -

UA: 245/09 Index: AMR 51/104/2009 Issue Date: 18 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 28 SEPTEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Romell Broom, a 53-year-old African American man, was taken to be executed on 15 September, but the (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): Woman threatened by armed security guards -

AMR41/048/2009 Further Information on UA: 15/09 Index: AMR 41/004/2009 Issue date: 16 January 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 28 OCTOBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. This is the second update of UA 15/09. For further information (...)

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Urgent action: Prisoner of conscience Abdollah Momeni at risk of torture and ill-treatment -

UA: 244/09 Index: MDE 13/099/2009 Issue Date: 14 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 26 OCTOBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. There has been no news of male Iranian prisoner of conscience Abdollah Momeni since his family visited (...)

Posté le 16 septembre 2009

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Urgent action (follow-up): Missing Chinese lawyer Gao Zhisheng has been seen -

This is the second update of UA 24/09 Index: ASA 17/052/2009 Issue Date: 15 September 2009. PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 27 OCTOBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. [ Lire la suite » (...)

Posté le 16 septembre 2009

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Urgent action: Roma community facing forced eviction -

UA: 243/09 Index: EUR 30/011/2009 Issue Date:11 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 21 SEPTEMBER 2009. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. City authorities in Milan, northern Italy, are preparing to forcibly evict a community of about 200 Roma (...)

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Urgent action: Kyaw Zaw Lwin,a burmese human rights activist arrested -

UA: 242/09 Index: ASA 16/005/2009 Issue Date: 11 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 23 OCTOBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Kyaw Zaw Lwin (also known as Nyi Nyi Aung), a male Burmese human rights activist who works for the (...)

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Urgent action: Shiva Nazar Ahari and Ali Bikas,two human rights defenders imprisoned -

UA: 239/09 Index: MDE 13/098/2009 Issue Date: 11 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 23 OCTOBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Members of two human rights organizations have been detained in Tehran's Evin Prison, some for over (...)

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Urgent action: Kenneth Mosley facing execution in Texas -

UA: 240/09 Index: AMR 51/099/2009 Issue Date: 10 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 24 SEPTEMBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Kenneth Mosley, a 51-year-old African American man, is scheduled to be executed in Texas on 24 (...)

Posté le 11 septembre 2009

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Urgent action: Health condition of poc Norboi Kholzhigitov deteriorating -

UA: 238/09 Index: EUR 62/003/2009 Issue Date: 10 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 21 OCTOBER . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Norboi Kholzhigitov, a 60-year-old male human rights activist, is critically-ill in an Uzbekistan prison. (...)

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Urgent action: Community leader Eligio Rebolledo Salinas (m) shot by unidentified gunmen -

UA: 241/09 INDEX: AMR 41/047/2009 ISSUE DATE: 10 SEPTEMBER 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 22 OCTOBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Community leader Eligio Rebolledo Salinas (m) has been shot by unidentified gunmen. Three of his male (...)

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Urgent action (good news) Caspian Makan, murder witness released – stop action -

Further information on UA: 236/09 Index: MDE 13/097/2009 Issue Date: 3 September 2009 Tehran resident, Caspian Makan, is reported to have been released on bail from Evin Prison, though it is not clear when or under what conditions. [ Lire la suite » (...)

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Urgent action: Sirazhudin Minatulaevich Shafiev abducted in Dagestan -

UA: 237/09 INDEX: EUR 46/024/2009 ISSUE DATE: 08 SEPTEMBER 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 20 OCTOBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Sirazhudin Minatulaevich Shafiev was abducted by masked men in camouflage uniform on 8 September. His (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): Murad Gasaev,released but still in danger -

Further information on UA: 01/09 Index: EUR 46/023/2009 Issue Date: 08 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 16 OCTOBER . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. [ Lire la suite » ]

Posté le 9 septembre 2009

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Urgent action: Caspian Makan, a murder witness faces ill-treatment -

UA: 236/09 Index: MDE 13/096/2009 Issue Date: 03 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 15 OCTOBER . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Tehran resident Caspian Makan, who was the fiancé of Neda Agha Soltan, a young woman killed in the recent (...)

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Urgent action: Stop violence against evicted community -

UA 235/09 Index: AMR 41/046/2009 Issue Date: 03 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 15 OCTOBER 2009 , please check with your section if sending appeals after the above date: The inhabitants of San Antonio Ebulá, outside the state capital of Campeche, were forcibly evicted and some were (...)

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Urgent action: Hossein Haghi, a juvenile offender faces execution -

UA: 234/09 Index: MDE 13/095/2009 Issue Date: 03 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 15 OCTOBER. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Hossein Haghi is facing imminent execution for a murder committed when he was a 16-year-old boy. His case has (...)

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Urgent action: About 130 Guarani Kaiowa Indigenous people facing eviction -

UA: 229/09 Index: AMR 19/015/2009 Issue Date: 3 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 15 OCTOBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. About 130 Guarani Kaiowa Indigenous People in southwestern Brazil are in imminent danger of eviction (...)

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Urgent action: Dr Mohammad Maleki, Iranian scholar detained -

UA: 233/09 Index: MDE 13/094/2009 Issue Date: 2 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 14 OCTOBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Dr Mohammad Maleki, a 76-year old male Iranian scholar and former Chancellor of Tehran University has (...)

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Urgent action: Salomón Monárrez Meraz, human rights defender shot by armed man -

UA 232/2009 Index: AMR 41/045/2009 Issue Date: 02 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 14 OCTOBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date Mexican human rights defender, Salomón Monárrez Meraz, was shot three times by an unidentified armed (...)

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Urgent action(follow up): Islam Askerov and Arsen Butaev demand protection after bodies found -

UA: Further information on UA: 224/09 Index: EUR 46/021/2009 Issue Date: 02 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 14 OCTOBER TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. The lives of Islam Askerov and Arsen Butaev remain at risk after a burnt-out car (...)

Posté le 3 septembre 2009

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Urgent action: Hengameh Shahidi, a female journalist held without charge in Iran -

UA: 231/09 Index: MDE 13/093/2009 Issue Date: 2 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 14 OCTOBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Hengameh Shahidi, a female journalist arrested on 30 June, is being held without charge in Evin prison, (...)

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Urgent action: Zhuang Lu, a ngo worker missing in China -

UA: 230/09 Index: ASA 17/051/2009 Issue Date: 01 September 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 13 OCTOBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Zhuang Lu, a woman who works for the legal aid and research organization, the Open Constitution (...)

Posté le 2 septembre 2009

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Urgent action (good news): Authorities fail to act after Sushan Limbu and Bhakta Rai were beaten -

Further information on UA: 199/09 Index: ASA 31/009/2009 Issue Date: 1 September 2009. Two male detainees, Sushan Limbu and Bhakta Rai, were granted access to lawyers and provided with medical care after appearing in court on 28 July. The police officers involved in their ill-treatment have (...)

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Urgent action: Demand clemency from supreme court -

UA:226/09 Index: ASA 17/046/2009 Issue Date: 27 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 08 October 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. The Anhui Provincial High People's Court rejected Tang Yanan's appeal against the death penalty on 12 August. (...)

Posté le 31 août 2009

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Urgent action: Thousands facing forcible eviction -

UA: 228/09 Index: AFR 44/032/2009 Issue Date: 28 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 9 OCTOBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. The government of a southern Nigerian state has begun forcibly evicting people to make way for a commercial (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): Seven of thirteen Iranian journalists released -

Further information on UA: 171/09 Index: MDE 13/092/2009 Issue Date: 28 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 09 OCTOBER 2009. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Of 13 Iranian journalists for whom Amnesty International has campaigned since the (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): Wang Yonghang formally arrested -

Further information on UA: 201/09 Index: ASA 17/050/2009 Issue Date: 28 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 9 OCTOBER 2009 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Human rights lawyer Wang Yonghang, who has been detained incommunicado since 5 July, (...)

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Urgente action (good news): Ilham Tohti, a Uighur activist released in Beijing -

Further information on UA: 194/09 Index: ASA 17/049/2009 Issue Date: 28 August 2009 Ilham Tohti, editor of the website Uighur Online and associate economics professor at Central Nationalities University, was released on 23 August in Beijing, China's capital. However, he remains under (...)

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Urgent action: Protection for the AWA community needed immediately -

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 08 October : Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Fears for the safety of members of the indigenous Awá community in Colombia have intensified after unidentified gunmen killed 12 community members, including 4 children. On (...)

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Urgent action: Tang Yanan’s appeal against death penalty rejected -

UA:226/09 Index: ASA 17/046/2009 Issue Date: 27 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 08 October 2009 : Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. The Anhui Provincial High People's Court rejected Tang Yanan's appeal against the death penalty on 12 August. (...)

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Urgent action: Death threats for activists demanding justice -

UA: 223/09 Index: AMR 29/001/2009 Issue Date: 27 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 08 OCTOBER 2009 : Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Those seeking justice for a murdered environmental activist in Cabañas department, El Salvador, are at risk. (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): Four doctors released, one still in danger -

Further information on UA: 129/09 Index: ASA 37/020/2009 Issue Date: 27 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 8 OCTOBER 2009, Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date Four of the five doctors held under emergency regulations by the Sri Lankan government (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): Abdolfattah Soltani, a prisoner of conscience bailed in iran -

Further information on UA: 160/09 Index: MDE 13/090/2009 Issue Date: 26 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 08 October 2009 : Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. This is the first update of UA 160/09. Further information: (...)

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Urgent action: 5oo families living without shelter -

UA: 225/09 Index: AMR 19/014/2009 Issue Date: 26 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 07 October 2009: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. 800 families were forcibly evicted from private land in the south of the city of São Paulo on 24 August; more (...)

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Urgent action: Five men in Russian Federation abducted -

UA: 224/09 Index: EUR 46/019/2009 Issue Date: 26 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 07 October 2009: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date On 23 August, five men were abducted in the republic of Dagestan, Russian Federation. The whereabouts of three (...)

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Urgent action: Shapour Kazemi,a relative of iranian election candidate held -

UA: 220/09 Index: MDE 13/089/2009 Issue Date: 24 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 5 OCTOBER 2009 : Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Shapour Kazemi, a brother-in-law of Mir Hossein Mousavi, one of the candidates in Iran's disputed (...)

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Urgent action: Four syrian kurds incommunicado -

UA: 222/09 Index: MDE 24/022/2009 Issue Date: 25 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 6 OCTOBER 2009 : Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Four Syrian Kurdish men are being held at an unknown location without contact with the outside world. They (...)

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Urgent action: Travis Bishop, soldier imprisoned as conscientious objector USA: -

UA: 221/09 Index: AMR 51/093/2009 Issue Date: 24 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 05 OCTOBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Travis Bishop, a sergeant in the United States army, is serving a one-year prison sentence for refusing to (...)

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Urgent action: Members of Baha'i faith face unfair trial -

UA: 220/09 Index: MDE 13/089/2009 Issue Date: 20 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 24 SEPTEMBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Seven members of Iran's Baha'i religious community may face the death penalty at a trial that could (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): Marcelino Coache Verano and other persons , threatened via sms messages -

Further information on UA: 68/09 Index: AMR 41/044/2009 Issue Date: 21 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 02 OCTOBER 2009 : Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. This is the third update of UA 68/09 (AMR 41/014/2009). Further information: (...)

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Urgent action: Iván Jaimes Filio and Jorge Raúl Jaimes Jiménez detained and tortured by soldiers -

UA: 219/09 Index: AMR 41/043/2009 Issue Date: 20 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 01 OCTOBER 2009 Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Two young men, 22-year-old Silverio Iván Jaimes Filio and 23-year-old Jorge Raúl Jaimes Jiménez were (...)

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Urgent action (good news): Clotilde Reiss released on bail -

Further information on UA: 188/09 Index: MDE 13/087/2009 Issue Date: 18 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE I OCTOBER 2009 Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. This is the second update of UA 188/09 (MDE 13/073/2009). Further information: (...)

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Urgent action (follow up): One soldier released, 11 still incommunicado -

Further information on UA: 204/09 Index: AFR 29/03/2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 29 SEPTEMBER 2009: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date One of the 12 soldiers held without charge in Guinea has been released. The 11 others are detained incommunicado (...)

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Urgent action (bad news): Jason Getsy was executed in Ohio on 18 August. -

Further information on UA: 200/09 Index: AMR 51/092/2009 Issue Date: 19 August 2009 URGENT ACTION Execution in Ohio USA: Jason Getsy was executed in Ohio on 18 August. [ Lire la suite » ]

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Urgent action (bad news): Novruzali Mammadov, sick prisoner dies in custody Azerbaijan: -

Further information on UA: 209/09 Index: EUR 55/008/2009Issue Date: 19 August 2009 No further action is requested from the UA network. Many thanks to all who sent appeals. URGENT ACTION Sick prisoner dies in custody Azerbaijan: Novruzali Mammadov died in prison on 17 August in Azerbaijan. The (...)

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Urgent action(follow up): Aleksei Sokolov, Russian human rights activist charged with "theft" -

Further information on UA: 128/09 Index: EUR 46/020/2009 Issue Date: 18 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 29 September 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Russian human rights activist Aleksei Sokolov has been remanded in custody for (...)

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Urgent action: VASILY YUZEPCHUK AND ANDREI ZHUK SENTENCED TO DEATH -

UA: 218/09 Index: EUR 49/008/2009 Issue Date: 17 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 28 SEPTEMBER 2009 The Belarusian authorities have sentenced two men to death for murder. Brest regional court sentenced 30-year-old Vasily Yuzepchuk to death on 29 June; Minsk regional court sentenced (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): GOLDEN MISABIKO PUT ON TRIAL -

Further information on UA: 208/09 Index: AFR 62/014/2009 Issue Date: 17 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 11 September 2009 Human rights defender Golden Misabiko's trial will begin on 19 August. He is charged with "threatening state security," because his organization published a (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up, good news): EXECUTION POSTPONED AGAIN -

Further information on UA: 71/08 Index: MDE 13/086/2009 Issue Date: 14 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 25 SEPTEMBER 2009 The execution of Mohammad Reza Haddadi, scheduled for 16 July, has been postponed, and the Head of the Judiciary is not known to have set a new execution date. This (...)

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Urgent action: MEMBERS OF BAHA'I FAITH FACE UNFAIR TRIAL -

UA: 216/09 Index: MDE 13/085/2009 Issue Date: 13 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 24 SEPTEMBER 2009 Seven members of Iran's Baha'i religious community may face the death penalty at a trial that could begin around 18 August. They have not had any contact with their lawyers, and it is (...)

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Urgent action: 160 FAMILIES HAVE ONE WEEK TO DISMANTLE HOMES -

UA: 217/09 Index: ASA 23/017/09 Issue Date: 13 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 24 September 2009 Two villages in Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital, have received an official notice that they will have to leave their homes within seven days, as a private company is redeveloping the site (...)

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Urgent action: MASS TRIAL OF PROTESTORS UNDERMINING JUSTICE -

UA: 214/09 Index: MDE 13/083/2009 Issue Date: 13 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 24 September 2009 A mass trial of more than 100 people accused of organizing protests against the widely-disputed official result of the 12 June presidential election began before the Revolutionary Court (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): FRENCH POC AWAITS SENTENCE -

Further information on UA: 188/09 Index: MDE 13/084/09 Issue Date: 13 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 24 September 2009 IRAN: The trial of Clotilde Reiss has ended, according to the Iranian authorities, but no verdict has yet been delivered by the Revolutionary Court of Tehran. The (...)

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Urgent action (good news): SOUTH KOREAN NATIONAL MR YU X RELEASED -

Further Information on UA: 168/09 Index: ASA 24/010/2009 Issue Date: 13 August North Korean authorities released South Korean national Yu X ( his full name is deleted for safety reasons) on 13 August 2009, after nearly five months in detention. Yu X is an employee of Hyundai Asan Corporation (...)

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Urgent action (follow up): Doctors remain at risk in Sri Lanka -

Further information on UA: 129/09 Index: ASA 37/018/2009 Issue Date: 12 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 23 September 2009: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Five doctors being held, under emergency regulations, by the Sri Lankan government (...)

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Urgent action(good news): Ali Ben Sassi Toumi released on bail after forcible return -

Further Information on UA: 210/09 Index: MDE 30/011/2009 Issue Date: 12 August 2009 No further action is requested by members. Tunisian national Ali Ben Sassi Toumi was released on bail on 10 August, after having spent eight days in detention. He has been accused of “membership of a (...)

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Urgent action: Three human rights defenders threatened -

UA: 215/09 Index: AMR 23/021/2009 Issue Date: 11 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 22 SEPTEMBER 2009: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Paramilitaries have threatened to kill three Colombian human rights defenders, whom they accuse of (...)

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Urgent action : 11 ROMA FAMILIES FACE FORCED EVICTION -

UA: 213/09 Index: EUR 25/009/09 Issue Date: 07 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 18 SEPTEMBER 2009 At least 11 Roma families face forced eviction from their homes on a landfill site on the island of Lefkada in Greece, and have been subjected to other violations of their rights to (...)

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Urgent action: 20 ROMA FAMILIES FORCIBLY EVICTED -

UA: 213/09 Index: EUR 25/009/09 Issue Date: 07 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 11 September 2009: Twenty Roma families have been forcibly evicted from their homes and subjected to other violations of their human rights to adequate housing and health in the island of Lefkada in Greece. (...)

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Urgent action: CAMP RESIDENTS BEATEN AND TORTURED -

UA: 212/09 Index: MDE 14/026/2009 Issue Date: 07 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 11 September 2009 Thirty-six Iranians detained in Iraq are being held at a police station. Iraqi security forces detained the Iranians when they forcibly seized control of Camp Ashraf. Most are reported to (...)

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Urgent action: Sakineh Mohammadi, at risk of execution by stoning -

UA: 211/09 Index: MDE 13/082/2009 Issue Date: 07 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 11 of September Iranian woman, Sakineh Mohammadi is at risk of execution by stoning in Tabriz Prison, western Iran. She was convicted in 2006 or 2007 of “adultery while being married”. She was (...)

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Urgent Action (bad news): DU YIMIN: BUSINESSWOMAN EXECUTED FOR FRAUD -

Further information on UA: 42/09 UA: 2/09 Index: ASA 17/041/2009 REPUBLIQUE POPULAIRE DE CHINE: Du Yimin, a businesswoman convicted of “fraudulent raising of public funds” was executed on 5 August after China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) approved her sentence. [ Lire la suite » (...)

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Urgent action: Soldiers held in unlawful place of detention -

Further information on UA: 204/09 Index: AFR 29/002/2009 Issue Date: 04 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 15 SEPTEMBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Eleven of a group of 12 male soldiers held without charge in Guinea have been (...)

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Urgent action: Ali Ben Sassi, Tunisian detained after forcible return -

UA: 210/09 Index: MDE 30/009/2009 Issue Date: 05 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 16 SEPTEMBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Tunisian national Ali Ben Sassi Toumi has been held incommunicado since being forcibly returned from (...)

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Urgent action (follow up): Bashir Makhtal, Canadian citizen sentenced to life -

Further information on UA: 207/09 Index: AFR 25/006/2009 Issue Date: 03 August 2009 No further action is requested from the UA network. Many thanks to all who sent appeals. Bashir Makhtal, who has Canadian citizenship, was sentenced to life imprisonment on 3 August, in Ethiopia. He had been (...)

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Urgent action (follow up): Two men hanged, others in grave danger -

Further information on UA: 54/09 Index: ASA 22/012/2009 Issue Date: 03 August 2009 PLEASE WRITE IMMEDIATELY in Japanese, English or your own language: Maeue Hiroshi and Yamaji Yukio were hanged on 28 July. The other three men who featured in this UA are still in danger of execution. The two (...)

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Urgent action(follow-up): Ronald Tiwarie still in danger of execution -

Further information on UA: 198/09 Index: AMR 49/003/2009 Issue Date: 05 August 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 16 SEPTEMBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Ronald Tiwarie has now been on death row beyond the five-year limit set down by (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): Ronald Tiwarie, death row prisoner still in danger -

Further information on UA: 198/09 Index: AMR 49/002/2009 Issue Date: 31 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 4 SEPTEMBER 2009: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Death row prisoner Ronald Tiwarie is still in danger of execution in Trinidad and (...)

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Urgent action: Novruzali Mammadov, 67-year-old prisoner dangerously ill -

UA: 209/09 Index: EUR 55/007/2009 Issue Date: 31 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 11 SEPTEMBER 2009: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. A 67-year-old language expert, serving a 10-year prison sentence apparently in connection with his promotion (...)

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Urgent action (good news): Shadi Sadr free on bail -

Further information on UA: 193/09 Index: MDE 13/080/2009 Issue Date: 30 July 2009 No further action is requested from the UA network. Many thanks to all who sent appeals. Human rights defender Shadi Sadr was released on bail on 28 July. It is not known what she has been charged with, but she (...)

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Urgent action (good news): Maskhud Abdullaev returns home -

Further information on UA(good news): 170/09 Index: EUR 46/017/2009 Issue Date: 28 July 2009 No further action is requested from the UA network. Many thanks to all who sent appeals. Maskhud Abdullaev was able to leave Chechnya on 22 July and travel to Azerbaijan to meet his family. He has (...)

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Urgent action: Bashir Makhtal, Canadian citizen could be sentenced to death -

UA: 207/09 Index: AFR 25/005/2009 Issue Date: 30 July 2009URGENT ACTION PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 3 AUGUST 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Canadian citizen could be sentenced to death Bashir Makhtal, an Ethiopian-born Canadian citizen, (...)

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Urgent action: Iranians arrested in Iraq, risk torture -

UA: 205/09 Index: MDE 14/023/2009 Issue Date: 28 July 2009 PLEASE WRITE IMMEDIATELY in English, Arabic or your own language: URGENT ACTION Iranians arrested in Iraq, risk torture Iraqi security forces have stormed a camp occupied by an Iranian organization since the 1980s, apparently using (...)

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Urgent action: Buuveibaatar, Call for pardon for Mongolian on death row -

UA: 206/09 Index: ASA 30/002/2009 Issue Date: 30 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 10 SEPTEMBER 2009: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. URGENT ACTION Call for pardon for Mongolian on death row Mongolia: Buuveibaatar, a 33-year-old Mongolian (...)

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Urgent action: Twelve detained soldiers threatened -

UA: 204/09 Index: AFR 29/001/2009 Issue Date: 29 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 09 SEPTEMBER 2009 : Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Twelve male soldiers have been detained without charge in a military barracks in Conakry, the capital of (...)

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Urgent action: Wang Yonghang, Human rights lawyer detained, tortured -

UA: 201/09 Index: ASA 17/036/2009 Issue Date: 28 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 8 SEPTEMBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Human rights lawyer Wang Yonghang, who has represented Falun Gong practitioners, has been held (...)

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Urgent action: Three thousand forcibly evicted in Kenya -

UA: 203/09 Index: AFR 32/010./2009 Issue Date: 28 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 08 SEPTEMBER 2009: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date URGENT ACTION Approximately 3,000 people have been forcibly evicted from their homes in Githogoro village, in (...)

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Urgent action: Zamora Gómez, Call for protection for intimidated family -

UA: 202/09 Index: AMR 41/040/2009 Issue Date: 28 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 08 SEPTEMBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Soldiers broke into the home of the Zamora Gómez family in Morelos state, central Mexico, and tortured (...)

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Urgent action: Golden Misabiko, leading DRC human rights defender arrested -

UA: 208/09 Index: AFR 62/013/2009 Issue Date: 30 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 10 SEPTEMBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. A prominent human rights defender has been detained as prisoner of conscience since 24 July in the (...)

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Urgent action: Jason Getsy, Man facing execution in Ohio for 1995 murder -

UA: 200/09 Index: AMR 51/086/2009 Issue Date: 24 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 18 August 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Jason Getsy, aged 33, is scheduled to be executed in Ohio on 18 August. He was sentenced to death in 1996 for (...)

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Urgent action: Sushan Limbu and Bhakta Rai, Police beat two detainees in public -

UA: 199/09 Index: ASA 31/008/2009 Issue Date: 23 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 4 SEPTEMBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date Two men have been detained and severely beaten by police in south-eastern Nepal. They are in urgent need of (...)

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Urgent action: Ronald Tiwarie, First execution in 10 years threatened -

UA: 198/09 Index: AMR 49/001/2009 Issue Date: 24 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 4 SEPTEMBER 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. A prisoner in Trinidad and Tobago is in imminent danger of execution, even though he has not exhausted all (...)

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Urgent action (good news): Syria, Usra al-Hussein, released after a year incommunicado -

Further information UA 261/08: Index: MDE 24/020/2009 Issue Date: 23 July 2009 No further action is requested from the UA network. Many thanks to all who sent appeals. URGENT ACTION Released after a year incommunicado Syria: Usra al-Hussein, a Syrian woman whose husband is being held by the (...)

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Urgent action: Haroun Mahamat Abdoulaye, Sultan at risk of torture -

UA: 197/09 Index: AFR 20/06/2009 Issue Date: 23 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 03 September 2009 TO: (check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.) Haroun Mahamat Abdoulaye, a Sultan in eastern Chad, was arrested from his home in the Chadian capital (...)

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URGENT ACTION (follow-up): Action brings investigation and safety -

Further information on UA: 05/09 Index: AMR 19/013/2009 Issue Date: 22 July 2009 No further action is needed at this time. Many thanks to all who sent appeals. Amnesty International will continue to monitor the situation. An investigation into threats made against peasant farmer and land (...)

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URGENT ACTION : Fear of more mass evictions in harare -

UA: 196/09 Index: AFR 46/012/2009 Issue Date: 22 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 02 September 2009 TO: (check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.) Thousands of people in Harare face mass eviction from their market stalls and homes. Most of the targeted (...)

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urgent action: Iraqi women facing execution -

UA: 195/09 Index: MDE 14/019/2009 Issue Date: 21 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 1 SEPTEMBER 2009 (check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.) At least nine women under sentence of death in Iraq are now in imminent danger of execution, as Iraq's Presidential (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up):Court orders suspension of eviction notice -

Further information on UA: 154/09 Index: AMR 23/020/2009 Issue Date: 20 July 2009 Many thanks to all who sent appeals. No further action is requested at present. Amnesty International will continue to monitor the situation and will take further action as necessary. Members of the (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): Trial of seven Baha'is postponed in Iran -

Further information on UA: 128/08 Index: MDE 13/077/2009 Issue Date: 20 July 2009 Amnesty International will continue to monitor this case, and will take further action as necessary. Many thanks to all who sent appeals. The trial of seven members of Iran's Baha'i religious minority (...)

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Urgent action: Ilham Tohti, Uighur activist held in Beijing -

UA: 194/09 Index: ASA 17/034/2009 Issue Date: 20 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 31 AUGUST 2009 TO: ( check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.) Ilham Tohti, editor of the website Uighur Online and associate economics professor at Central Nationalities (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up) : Group 78 evicted in Cambodia -

Further information on UA: 110/09 Index: ASA 23/016/2009 Issue Date: 17 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 28 AUGUST 2009 ( check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.) Low-income families living in the area known as Group 78, in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, (...)

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Urgent action: Shadi Sadr, Human rights defender risks torture -

UA: 193/09 Index: MDE 13/076/2009 Issue Date: 17 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 01/09/2009 TO: (check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.) Human rights defender Shadi Sadr was abducted on 17 July in Tehran, by men believed to be security officials. She was (...)

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URGENT ACTION Businessman Mohammed Abdulwahab el-Sayed detained, risks torture -

UA: 191/09 Index: MDE 12/028/2009 EGYPT, Issue Date: 17 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 1 SEPTEMBER:(check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.) Businessman Mohammed Abdulwahab el-Sayed has been held incommunicado since 22 June 2009, putting him at risk of (...)

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URGENT ACTION Stop destruction of palestinian family home -

UA:192/09 Index: MDE 15/024/2009 Issue Date: 17 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 28 AUGUST 2009 :(check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.) The Israeli authorities are preparing to demolish a Palestinian family's home in East Jerusalem, on the grounds (...)

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URGENT ACTION Dhondup Wangchen, Tibetan film-maker may face unfair trial -

UA: 189/09 Index: ASA 17/033/2009 Issue Date: 17 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 28 JULY 2009: (check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.) Dhondup Wangchen, a Tibetan documentary-maker, is awaiting trial for “inciting separatism” in Xining city, (...)

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Urgent action: Campaigners arrested on false charges -

UA: 190/09 Index: AMR 41/039/2009 Issue Date: 16 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 27 AUGUST 2009 TO: Leaders of an organization protesting against high domestic electricity costs in Candelaria, Campeche state (Movimiento Resistencia Civil contra las Altas Tarifas de la Energía Eléctrica (...)

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URGENT ACTION : Female french student held in iran -

UA: 188/09 Index: MDE 13/073/2009 Issue Date: 15 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 26 AUGUST 2009 TO: (check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date) On 1 July, 24-year-old French national Clotilde Reiss was detained at Tehran airport in Iran, on her way home to (...)

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urgent action (good news) :Lithuanian parliament adopts homophobic law -

Further Information on UA: 185/09 Index: EUR 53/006/2009 Issue Date: 13 July 2009 Lithuanian parliament adopts homophobic law On 14 June, Lithuania's Parliament voted to overturn the Presidential veto of the “Law on the Protection of Minors against the Detrimental Effect of Public (...)

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Emanuel Zeltser released -

Further information (good news) on UA: 121/08 Index: EUR 49/007/2009 Issue Date: 13 July 2009 Emanuel Zeltser released Emanuel Zeltser was pardoned on 30 June by the Belarusian president, Alyaksandr Lukashenka. He was released a few hours later. [ Lire la suite » (...)

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Urgent Action : Forcible eviction imminent for 80 families living in the area known as Group 78 -

Further information on UA: 110/09 Index: ASA 23/014/2009, Issue Date: 13 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 24 AUGUST 2009 Cambodia : the authorities in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, are preparing to forcibly evict the families living in the area known as Group 78. Phnom Penh city (...)

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Urgent Action : 3 detainees, Jean-Pierre Sido Yambanu, Church pastor Rémy Bongongo Lumunu and Loth Loota L'Anongo, risk death -

UA: 187/09, Index: AFR 62/012/2009, Issue Date: 13 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 24 AUGUST 2009 Democratic republic of congo : three men are known to have been subjectd to enforced disappearance after they were secretly removed from military detention in the Democratic Republic of (...)

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Urgent Action : Detained protestors,Khaled al-‘Omair and Mohammed al-‘Otaibi remain, remain at risk -

Further information UA: 14/09 Index: MDE 23/023/2009 Issue Date: 08 July 2009 PLEASE WRITE IMMEDIATELY Saudi Arabia : Khaled al-‘Omair and Mohammed al-‘Otaibi remain in detention and are at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. They were detained in Saudi Arabia after taking (...)

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Urgent Action (good news) : Israel allows Abu Mteer, a palestinian patient, out of gaza -

UA: 183/09, Index: MDE 15/023/2009, Issue Date: 10 July 2009 Israël : the Israeli authorities have agreed to grant Palestinian man Ahmed Abu Mteer permission to leave Gaza in order to travel to a Palestinian hospital in East Jerusalem, where he can receive life-saving treatment. [ Lire la (...)

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Urgent Action : Mohammad Ali Dadkhah, human rights lawyers’ whereabouts unknown after arrest -

UA: 186/09 Index: MDE 13/071/2009 Issue Date: 10 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 21 AUGUST 2009 Iran : Human rights lawyer Mohammad Ali Dadkhah was arrested on 8 July in the Iranian capital, Tehran, along with an unknown number of his colleagues. The reason for their arrest is not clear, (...)

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Urgent Action : Mohammad Reza Haddadi, an iranian juvenile faces execution on 16 july -

Further information on UA: 71/08 Index: MDE 13/070/2009 Issue Date: 10 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 16 JULY 2009 Iran : the execution of 20-year-old Mohammad Reza Haddadi has been scheduled in the city of Shiraz, southern Iran, on 16 July. He has been sentenced to death for a crime he (...)

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Urgent Action : on 14 July, demand the Lithuanian parliament rejects homophobic law -

UA:185/09 Index: EUR 53/004/2009 Issue Date: 09 July 2009 PLEASE WRITE IMMEDIATELY Lithuania : On 14 July, the Lithuanian parliament will vote whether to overturn a Presidential veto on a law that will institutionalize homophobia, violating the right to freedom of expression and the right to (...)

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Urgent Action (good news) : Steps taken toward dialogue after clashes -

Further information on UA: 143/09 Index: AMR 46/010/2009 Issue Date: 09 July 2009 Peru : International pressure on the Peruvian authorities has brought some progress for Indigenous Peoples in the Amazon. An Amnesty International delegation will visit the country to assess the situation. [ Lire (...)

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Urgent Action : At least eight political leaders remain in detention -

Further Information on UA: 159/09, Index: MDE 13/068/09, Issue Date: 08 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 19 August Iran : At least eight political leaders remain in the custody of the Iranian Authorities, two of whom are being supervised in hospital. Ebrahim Yazdi has been released. They (...)

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Urgent Action : At least 12 students at risk of torture -

UA: 183/09, Index: MDE 31/008/2009, Issue Date: 08 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 19 August 2009 Yemen : At least 12 students in Yemen are being held incommunicado. They are at risk of being tortured or suffering other ill-treatment. They appear to be prisoners of conscience, detained (...)

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Urgent Action : Ahmed Abu Mteer, a palestinian man, is denied medical treatment -

UA: 183/09, Index: MDE 15/022/2009, Issue Date: 08 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 19 AUGUST Israël : The Israeli authorities are denying critically ill Palestinians access to treatment which cannot be obtained in Gaza. Ahmed Abu Mteer, who suffers from Hodgkin's lymphoma (a cancer (...)

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Urgent Action : Sixteen-year-old student José Emiliano Nandayapa Gomez was beaten unconscious -

UA: 182/09, Index: AMR 41/038/2009, Issue Date: 08 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 19 AUGUST 2009 Mexico : Sixteen-year-old student José Emiliano Nandayapa Gomez was beaten unconscious by police officers in Chiapas state, southern Mexico. When he tried to file a complaint, he and his (...)

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Urgent Action : Maskhud Abdullaev's, a russian national, whereabouts unknown -

Further Information on UA: 170/09, Index: EUR 46/016/2009, Issue Date: 08 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 19 AUGUST 2009 Russian federation : Maskhud Abdullaev, a Russian national was forcibly returned from Egypt to Russia on 19 June 2009. In an interview for a Chechen TV programme, (...)

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Urgent action: Issa Saharkhiz, Disappeared journalist at risk of torture -

UA: 181/09, AI Index: MDE 13/067/2009, Issue Date: 06 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 17/08/2009 TO: ( check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.) Journalist Issa Saharkhiz was arrested on 4 July 2009. Amnesty International considers him to be a prisoner of (...)

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Urgent action (follow up): Le Cong Dinh, Incommunicado lawyer now disbarred -

Further Information on UA: 155/09 AI Index: ASA 41/003/2009 Issue Date: 6 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 17 AUGUST 2009 TO: (check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.) Lawyer Le Cong Dinh has been disbarred by the Ho Chi Minh City Bar Association and the (...)

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Urgent action: Woman attacked by armed security guards -

UA: 180/09, Index: AMR 41/037/2009, Issue Date: 06 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 14 AUGUST 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date Mexico: A Mexican woman living in the northern state of Chihuahua, Carmen Quiñones Ortíz, was assaulted and (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): President vetoes homophobic legislation -

Further Information on UA: 162/09, Index: EUR 53/003/2009, Issue Date: 06 July 2009 On 26 June, Lithuania's President vetoed a law which includes an amendment institutionalizing homophobia, violating the right to freedom of expression and the right to be free from discrimination. (...)

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Urgent action (good news): Mahmoud Abu Rideh, a travel hope for palestinian refugee -

Further information: UA 140/09 (EUR 45/006/2009). 06/july/2009 United Kingdom: UK authorities have permitted Mahmoud Abu Rideh to apply for travel documentation with partial international recognition. He remains subject to the restrictive conditions of his "control order" at his home in (...)

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Urgent action: Richard Kendal García, Family threatened by police officer -

UA: 179/09, Index: AMR 27/004/2009, Issue Date: 02 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFOre 14 AUGUST 2009 TO: (check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.) Richard Kendal García has received death threats from a officer of the Dominican National Police. He and his (...)

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Urgent action: Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, From secret detention to the death penalty? -

UA: 178/09 Index: AMR 51/081/2009, Issue Date: 03 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE October 2009 TO: ( check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.) Tanzanian national Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, who has been detained without charge for five years, two of them at (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): Seven baha'is leaders risk execution -

Further Information on UA 128/08 (MDE 13/068/2008, 15 May 2008). PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 14 AUGUST 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. The seven members of Iran's Baha'i religious minority are scheduled for trial on 11 July. If (...)

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Urgent action (good news): Romuald Roger Durand Sébastien, french national released in egypt -

Further Information on UA: 149/09, Index: MDE 12/027/2009, Issue Date: 03 July 2009 French national Romuald Roger Durand Sébastien, known as Romuald Durand, was released on 22 June, after having spent two months in detention in the Egyptian capital, Cairo. He was deported to France on his (...)

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Urgent action (good news): 'Abdullah Saleh al-Muhanna, Cleric released -

Further Information on UA: 145/09, Index: MDE 23/022/2009, Issue Date: 10 June 2009 'Abdullah Saleh al-Muhanna, who had been detained for over a month for holding Friday prayers for members of the Shi'a community at his home in al-Khober in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, was (...)

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Urgent action (bad news): Paraguay's Yakye Axa Indigenous community, setback to community's land claim -

Further Information on UA: 47/09, Index: AMR 45/012/2009, Issue Date: 03 July 2009 The claim of Paraguay's Yakye Axa Indigenous community to the land which they have inhabited for generations has been rejected by a key commission in the country's Congress. On 25 June, a majority of (...)

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Urgent action : Andriy Snigovyj, a prisoner in urgent need of medical care -

UA: 177/09, Index: EUR 50/001/2009, Issue Date: 02 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 13 August 2009 : Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Andriy Snigovyj is currently in pre-trial detention in Ukraine. He is HIV positive and is currently suffering (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): Mohammad Mostafaei,an Iranian lawyer and human rights defender, still risks prosecution -

Further Information on UA: 175/09, MDE 13/064/2009 02 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 13 AUGUST 2009 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. Mohammad Mostafaei, an Iranian lawyer and human rights defender, has been released on bail. He is (...)

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Urgent action: Jakarkhon Sheikho ‘Ali, a Kurdish activist at risk of torture -

UA: 176/09, Index: MDE 14/017/2009, Issue Date: 01 July 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 12 AUGUST 2009 TO: ( check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.) Political activist Jakarkhon Sheikho ‘Ali, a member of Syria's Kurdish minority, is being held (...)

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Urgent Action : Diego Cadenas Gordillo, human rights defenders in danger -

UA: 174/09, Index: AMR 41/035/2009, Issue Date: 29 June 2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 11th of August: (Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.) Leading human rights defender Diego Cadenas Gordillo has been followed by men in cars, who have photographed (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): CONDEMN FORCED EVICTION OF 31CAMBODIAN FAMILIES -

Further Information on UA: 99/09 Index: ASA 23/013/2009 30 June 2009 Please check with your section office if sending appeals after 11 AUGUST 2009 Cambodia: Some 31 families living with HIV and AIDS in the Borei Keila area of the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, have been forcibly evicted from (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): Khalid al-Zahrani: ACADEMIC HELD IN SECRET AT RISK OF FLOGGING -

Further information on : MDE 23/031/2009 - UA 95/08 30 june 2009 Please check with your section office if sending appeals after 11 AUGUST 2009 Khalid al-Zahrani, a university academic, was arrested by security forces on his return to Saudi Arabia on 30 June. His place of detention has not (...)

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Urgent Action : Mohammad Mostafaei, human rights lawyer -

UA: 175/09 - Index: mde 13/064/2009 PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 10 August 2009 (Check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.) Human rights lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei was arrested on 25 June, probably in relation to his human rights activities and his peaceful exercise (...)

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Urgent Action : Margarita Martín De Las Nieves (f); Santiago Ponce Lola (m), her husband's brother ... -

...Modesta Laureano Petra (f), her sister-in-law AMR 41/033/2009 - UA 173/09 The three people named above, who are active members of an indigenous rights organisation, were attacked by a gunman on 24 June. Margarita Martín de las Nieves, Santiago Ponce Lola and Modesta Laureano Petra were (...)

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Urgent Action : Yu X (m), aged 44, South Korean national -

ASA 24/009/2009 - UA 168/09 South Korean national Yu X was arrested on 30 March at the Kaeseong Industrial Complex in North Korea, where he was working. He has been held incommunicado since then, putting him at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. The North Korean government have told the (...)

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Urgent Action (good news) : Maskhud Supyanovich Abdullaev (m), aged 22, Russian national, student ... -

...Zina Mustapaeva (w), Russian national; Zalina Tarzaeva (w), Russian national; Usam Akhmadov (m), Russian national; Mahomad-Amin Adikhadzhiev (m), Russian national; Akhmad Azimov (m), Russian national MDE 12/026/2009 - Further Information on UA 153/09 (MDE 12/025/2009, 17 June 2009) [ Lire (...)

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Urgent Action (good news): Marcelo Freixo (m) , Vinicius George (m) -

AMR 19/012/2009 - Further Information on UA 138/09 (AMR 19/008/2009, 2 June 2009) State parliamentarian Marcelo Freixo and his aide Vinicius George have said that they are satisfied with the level of protection provided for them by the authorities in Rio de Janeiro. This follows death threats (...)

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Urgent Action (good news): May Membriri Vecina (f), aged 29, Filipina National -

MDE 17/001/2009 - Further Information on UA 87/08 (MDE 17/001/2008, 04 April 2008) Filipina domestic worker May Membriri Vecina was pardoned on 1 June by the Amir of Kuwait. She should be returned to the Philippines on 24 June. The Amir had commuted her death sentence to life imprisonment in (...)

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Urgent Action : Esma'il Alavi; Mohammad Reza Junaydi ; Bahram Mohammadi Far ... -

...Person identified only as Karimoddini ; Person identified only as Hossein Qorreh ; Person identified only as Taqipour ; Person identified only as Darabi and at least 13 other employees of the newspaper Kalameh Sabz MDE 13/063/2009 - UA 172/09 According to Alireza Beheshti, the editor of (...)

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Urgent Action : Mahsa Amrabad, [f] journalist ; Abdolreza Tajik, [m] journalist ; Kayvan Samimi Behbahani, [m] editor ... -

...Mojtaba Pourmohsen, [m] editor ; Sa'id Laylaz, [m] journalist ; Rouhollah Shahsavar, [m] journalist ; Mohammad Ghouchani, [m] editor ; Zhila Bani Ya'qoub, [f] journalist ; Bahman Ahmadi Amou'i, [m] journalist; Mostafa Qavanloo Qajar, [m] journalist, Fariborz Soroush, [m] journalist; (...)

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Urgent Action : Maskhud Abdullaev, (m), 22 -

EUR 46/013/2009 - UA 170/09 Maskhud Abdullaev, a Russian national from Chechnya was forcibly returned by the Egyptian authorities on 19 June, to the Russian capital Moscow. Upon arrival at the airport in Moscow Maskhud Abdullaev was allegedly detained by men in plain clothes and taken for (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up) : Manjit/Sarabjit Singh, (m) Indian national -

ASA 33/005/2009 - Further Information on 69/08 (ASA 33/010/2008, 19 March 2008) and follow-up (ASA 33/12/2008) A second petition to review the death sentence that was given to Manjit/Sarabjit Singh in 1991 was rejected by the Pakistan Supreme Court on 24 June. The sentence was upheld after the (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up) : 103 individuals -

AFR 54/017/2009 - Further Information on UA 108/09 (AFR 54/012/2009) On 25 May, Counter-Terrorism Special Courts sentenced to death 9 men for their alleged membership to the justice and Equality Movement, a Darfur-based armed opposition group, and for their alleged participation in an attack (...)

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Urgent Action : Liu Xiaobo (m), 54 -

ASA 17/030/2009 - UA 169/09 Scholar and activist Liu Xiaobo was formally arrested for “inciting subversion of state power” on 23 June. Liu Xiabo has been held under “residential surveillance” since 8 December 2008, without any due process or access to a lawyer. The (...)

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Urgent Action : Salah Ahmed Yahya al-Shagladi (m), chief editor of Aden Gulf Network news ... -

... Hussein al-‘Agil (m), aged about 50, lecturer at Aden University MDE 31/007/2009 - UA 167/09 The two men named above were arrested during the last three weeks and are now held incommunicado, putting them at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. According to sources in Yemen, (...)

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Urgent Action : José Goyes Santacruz (m), Marta Lucía Cucuñame (f) ... -

... their family. Leaders of Indigenous communities in the north of Cauca Department AMR 23/018/2009 - UA 166/09 The family of an Indigenous leader, campaigning for land rights in the south-western Department of Cauca, has received a death threat. Other Indigenous leaders in the region are in (...)

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Urgent action : Over 200 homeless families -

AMR 19/011/2009 - UA 165/09 Over 400 families were forcibly evicted from a government building on 16 June; more than 200 families are now encamped in extremely precarious conditions in an enclosed space under a viaduct in the centre of São Paulo. Supported by local NGOs, the families plan to (...)

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Urgent action (follow-up): Demonstrators against announcement of re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad -

MDE 13/061/2009 - Further Information on UA 150/09 (MDE 13/056/2009, 15 June 2009) Demonstrations in Iran continued following the Iranian presidential election on 12 June. Iran's state media reported that on 20 June, at least 475 people were arrested during post-election clashes and that up to (...)

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Urgent Action :Three rural communities in Coyuca de Catalán municipality, Guerrero state -

AMR 41/031/2009 - UA 161/09 Soldiers went into three rural communities in the southern state of Guerrero between 9 and 13 June, and tortured, shot at, threatened and harassed adults and children. The military incursion was intended to detain members of an armed opposition group, the Insurgent (...)

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Urgent Action : Muhammad Basheer al-Ramaly (m), aged 22 -

MDE 23/020/2009 - UA 164/09 A court in the northern city of Hail has sentenced a man to death by beheading. He is in imminent danger of execution. Muhammad Basheer al-Ramaly was convicted by the General Court in Hail of the kidnapping and rape of four people which took place in February 2009. (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up): Said Youzi (m), trade unionist , Jafar Azim Zadeh (m), trade unionist ... -

...Release: Gholamreza Khani (m), trade unionist , Kaveh Mozzaffari (m), journalist , Mehdi Farahandi Shandiz (m), trade unionist MDE 13/060/2009 - Further Information on UA 144/09 (MDE 13/054/2009, 10 June 2009) Two trade unionists and a journalist arrested for attending a peaceful event (...)

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Urgent Action : Abdolfattah Soltani (m), lawyer, human rights defender -

MDE 13/059/2009 - UA 160/09 Lawyer and human rights defender Abdolfattah Soltani was arrested on 16 June and his whereabouts are unknown. The reasons for his arrest are not known but are likely to be in connection with the currents events in Iran. Amnesty International believes that (...)

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Urgent Action : Possible adoption of homophobic legislation -

EUR 53/002/2009 - UA 162/09 On 16 June, the Lithuanian parliament (The Seimas) passed a law which includes an amendment which institutionalizes homophobia, violates the right to freedom of expression and the right to be free from discrimination. The President has ten days to decide whether or (...)

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Urgent Action : Yan Dongfei (m), aged 60, Qiao Yongfang (f) aged 60: husband and wife -

ASA 17/029/2009 - UA 163/09 Prisoners of conscience Yan Dongfei and Qiao Yongfang were detained on 8 June in the city of Hohhot (Huhehaote), in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in northern China. They are being held incommunicado at the No.1 Detention Center of Hohhot, where they are at (...)

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Urgent Action : Le Cong Dinh (m), human rights lawyer -

ASA 41/002/2009 - UA 155/09 Human rights lawyer Le Cong Dinh was arrested at his office in Ho Chi Minh City on 13 June by Public Security police. He has been charged with "conducting propaganda" against the state, under Article 88 of the Penal Code. If convicted, he faces a three- to 20-year (...)

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Urgent Action : Afro-descendant community of Caracolí, Curvaradó region, Chocó Department -

AMR 23/016/2009 - UA 154/09 Sources in the Curvaradó region learned at a local meeting on 11 June that local police were preparing an eviction notice, which they planned to serve on 18 June, on the community of Caracolí, which consists of over 100 people, in the Curvaradó region of Chocó (...)

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Urgent Action : Ibrahim Abakar Ibrahim Adam (m), aged 28. 13 others -

AFR 54/016/2009 - UA 156/09 Abakar Ibrahim Adam was arrested on 14 April, along with a group of other Darfuri people, after protests against the execution of nine Darfuri men. They are now known to be still in custody and are at risk of torture. The nine Darfuri men were hanged on 13 April (...)

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Urgent Action : Maskhud Supyanovich Abdullaev (m), aged 22, student, Russian national, ... -

... Zina Mustapaeva (w), Russian national; Zalina Tarzaeva (w), Russian national; Usam Akhmadov (m), Russian national; Mahomad-Amin Adikhadzhiev (m), Russian national; Akhmad Azimov (m), Russian national MDE 12/025/2009 - UA 153/09 The Egyptian authorities intend to forcibly return student (...)

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Urgent Action : Emil Touray (m), Secretary General Gambia Press Union, ... -

... Sarata Jabbi-Dibba (f), Vice President, Gambia Press Union, Pa Modou Faal (m), Treasurer, Gambia Press Union, Pap Saine (m), Publisher, The Point newspaper, Ebrma Saweneh (m), Editor, The Point newspaper, Sam Sarr (m), Editor, Foroyaa, opposition newspaper, Abubcarr Saidy Khan, (m) (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up): Around 32 families living at Borei Keila, Phnom Penh -

ASA 23/012/2009 - Further Information on 99/09 (ASA 23/006/2009, 9 April 2009) and follow-up (ASA 23/011/2009, 11 June 2009) [ Lire la suite » ]

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Urgent Action : Raid Halassa Sakit (m), aged about 20, Iraqi national ... -

...Abbas Fadil Abbas (m), aged 20, Iraqi national , Othman Ali (m), aged 20, Iraqi national, Aqil Matsher (m), aged 22, Iraqi national MDE 23/019/2009 - UA 157/09 The four Iraqi nationals named above are at risk of imminent execution for alleged offences reported to have been committed while (...)

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Urgent action : Yusufjan (Yuesefujiang) (m), aged 27, Memetjan (Maimaitijiang) (m), aged 24 -

ASA 17/028/2009 - UA 158/09 Yusufjan and Memetjan, both ethnic Uighurs and students at Xinjiang University, were detained on 10 May in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in northwest China. There is no information on their current legal status or whereabouts and there (...)

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Urgent action : Mohammad Ali Abtahi (m), 51, all political leaders ... -

...Mohsen Aminzadeh (m), Said Hajjarian (m), 55, Behzad Nabavi (m), 68, Abdollah Ramazanzadeh (m), Mostafa Tajzadeh (m), 53, Mohammad Tavassoli (m), Ebrahim Yazdi, 76 MDE 13/058/2009 - UA 159/09 Eight political leaders have been arrested in Tehran in connection with their perceived views on (...)

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Urgent action (follow up): 13 Uighur detainees held at Guantánamo -

AMR 51/077/2009 Further Information on UA 278/08 (AMR 51/112/2008, 08 October 2008) and updates (AMR 51/137/2008, 12 November; AMR 51/013/2009, 26 January 2009; AMR 51/027/2009, 19 February 2009; AMR 51/062/2009, 08 May 2009) Four of the Uighur detainees who had been held in the US Naval Base (...)

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Urgent action: Leyla Farzadi (f) doctor, Jalil Sharbiyanlou (m) surgeon ,... -

... Ghaffari Farzadi (m) member of the Central Committee of the Iran Freedom Movement , Rahim Yavari (m) an Iran Freedom Movement activist, At least 24 political activists, students and health professionals MDE 13/057/2009 UA 152/09 The four individuals named above and at least 24 political (...)

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Urgent action (good news): Ahmed Zaid Salem Zuhair (m), Saudi Arabian national, aged 44 -

AMR 51/075/2009 - Further information on UA 350/08 (AMR 51/156/2008, 23 December 2008) and follow-up (AMR 51/028/2009, 20 February 2009) Ahmed Zuhair was released from Guantánamo and flown to Saudi Arabia on 12 June. He had been held without charge or trial in Guantánamo since June 2002, and (...)

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Urgent action: Demonstrators against announcement of re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad -

MDE 13/056/2009 UA 150/09 Thousands of people, mainly supporters of presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, who has challenged the announcement that current President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, had won the 12 June presidential election have been demonstrating, sometimes violently, in the (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up) : Around 32 families living at Borei Keila, Phnom Penh -

ASA 23/011/2009 -Further Information on UA 99/09 (ASA 23/006/2009, 9 April 2009) The Phnom Penh Municipal authorities have indicated this week that the families living at Borei Keila will be forcibly evicted sometime in the next few days. Around 32 families living with HIV and AIDS have (...)

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Urgent Action (good news): Khalil Abdul Rahman Abdul Karim al-Janahi (m), aged 38 -

MDE 25/007/2009 - Further Information on UA 142/09 (MDE 25/005/2009, 08 June 2009) Khalil Abdul Rahman Abdul Karim al-Janahi was released this morning and is staying with his relatives in the UAE. He is said to be in good health. [ Lire la suite » (...)

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Urgent Action : Rommel Cain Chacan Pale (m), lawyer with Monitor Civil de Policía (Civic Police Monitor), ... -

... Matilde Pérez Romero (f), lawyer with same organization. 105 human rights activists in Guerrero state AMR 41/030/2009 - UA 148/09 Human rights activists, many of them Indigenous activists, from Guerrero State, Mexico, continue to be at high risk of attacks, in spite of orders by Inter (...)

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Urgent action Members of the Yakye Axa Indigenous community -

ACTIONS URGENTES PARAGUAY Members of the Yakye Axa Indigenous community AMR 45/011/2009 12 June2009 UA 147/09 Legal concern/ Harsh conditions The Paraguayan Congress is at risk of jeopardizing the Paraguayan State´s compliance with a legally binding judgment by the Inter-American Court of (...)

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Urgent action (good news): Mohammed el Gharani (m), Chadian national, aged 22 -

AMR 51/074/2009 Further information on UA 49/09 (AMR 51/026/2009, 19 February 2009) and update (AMR 51/040/2009, 20 March 2009) Mohammed el Gharani was transferred from Guantánamo Bay to Chad on 11 June, almost five months after a US federal judge ordered that he be released. Detained when he (...)

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Urgent action: Romuald Roger Durand Sébastien (m), aged 35 -

MDE 12/024/2009 UA 149/09 French national Romuald Durand, who has lived in Egypt for at least three years, was arrested on 21 April, and has been held incommunicado since then. He is believed to be in the custody of State Security Investigations (SSI) services, but his whereabouts are unknown. (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up): Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, Yemeni national -

AMR 51/073/2009 - Further Information on 125/09 (AMR 51/066/2009, 13 May 2009) - Health concern/detention without trial Fears for Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif's safety and well being have been heightened following the alleged suicide of 31-year-old Yemeni national Mohammed Ahmed Abdullah (...)

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Urgent Action : Jafar Azimzadeh, Chairperson, Board of the Union of Free Workers of Iran ... -

...Said Youzi, member of the Follow-up Committee for the Establishment of Free Workers Organizations. Kaveh Mozaffari, journalist and student. Gholamreza Khani, member of the Tehran and Suburbs Vahed Bus Company. Mehdi Farahani Shandiz, retired teacher MDE 13/054/2009 - UA 144/09 Four trade (...)

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Urgent Action : 'Abdullah Saleh al-Muhanna (m), aged 64, retired mayor -

MDE 23/018/2009 - UA 145/09 'Abdullah Saleh al-Muhanna, a retired mayor of al-Khober, a city in Saudi Arabia's Eastern Province, is being detained in al- Khober Police Station after holding Friday prayers at his home for members of the Shi'a community. On 25 May, he was asked by the (...)

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Urgent Action : Hossein Akbari . Abdollah Vatankhah. Abol Hassan Dar ol-Shafa’ie ... -

...Aziz Yari. All members of the Metal Workers and Mechanics Union. Four other members of the Metal workers and Mechanics Union MDE 13/055/2009 - UA 146/09 Hossein Akbari, Abdollah Vatankhah, Abol Hassan Dar ol-Shafa'ie, and Aziz Yari, along with four other members of the Metal workers and (...)

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Urgent action (follow up) : Sulieman al-Rushudi (m), retired judge, Dr Saud al-Hashimi (m), medical doctor, ... -

... Al-Sharif Saif Al-Ghalib (m), Dr Musa al-Qirni (m), university professor , Dr ‘Abdel Rahman al-Shumayri (m), university professor, Fahd al-Qirshi (m), ‘Abdel Rahman Khan (m), ‘Abdelaziz al-Khariji (m). Released : Dr Matrouk al-Faleh (m), university professor and human (...)

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Urgent Action : Nizar Ristnawi (m) aged 49, civil engineer -

MDE 24/015/2009 - UA 141/09 Prisoner of conscience and human rights defender Nizar Ristnawi may have been subjected to enforced disappearance. He completed a four-year prison sentence at Sednaya Military Prison near the capital Damascus on 18 April 2009, but was not released. His family have (...)

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Urgent Action : Khalil Abdul Rahman Abdul Karim al-Janahi (m), aged 38 -

MDE 25/005/2009 - UA 142/09 Khalil Abdul Rahman Abdul Karim al-Janahi is being held in incommunicado detention without charge or trial at an unknown location in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He was deported from Saudi Arabia on 24 November 2008 and is believed to be held by (...)

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Urgent Action (good news): Maryam Kallis (f), aged 36, UK national.Yasser Zahur Ahmed (m), aged 28, UK national -

MDE 24/016/2009 - Further information on UA 90/09 (MDE 24/007/2009, 30 March 2009) and follow-ups (MDE 24/09/2009, 9 April 2009; MDE 24/012/2009, 6 May 2009; MDE 24/014/2009, 12 May 2009) Maryam Kallis and Yasser Zahur Ahmed were released on 7 June and returned home to their families in the (...)

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Urgent Action : At least 79 Indigenous demonstrators in police and military custody ... -

...At least 169 injured Indigenous demonstrators AMR 46/009/2009 - UA 143/09 Scores of demonstrators from Indigenous communities in the Amazon were detained and at least 169 injured after demonstrators were forcibly dispersed in the town of Bagua, in Amazonas Department. The government has (...)

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Urgent Action : Over 280 residents of Ras al-Ahmar and Hadidiya villages -

MDE 15/020/2009 - UA 139/09 On 4 June, the Israeli army destroyed the homes of 18 Palestinian families (more than 130 people, many of them children) and their animal pens in the hamlet of Ras al-Ahmar, in the Jordan Valley area of the West Bank in the OPT. The Israeli army confiscated the (...)

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Urgent Action : Mahmoud Abu Rideh (m), aged 37 -

EUR 45/006/2009 - UA 140/09 Lawyers for Mahmoud Abu Rideh, a Palestinian refugee who is subject to a "control order" imposed by the United Kingdom authorities, believe that there is a real risk he will commit suicide if the control order is not lifted or if he is not provided with travel (...)

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Urgent action (follow up) : Jerónimo Gómez Saragos, Antonio Gómez Saragos, Miguel Demeza Jiménez, ... -

... Sebastián Demeza Deara, Pedro Demeza Deara, Jerónimo Moreno Deara, Alfredo Gómez Moreno, Miguel Vázquez Moreno, members of the Tzeltal Indigenous community. Eric Bautista Gómez , member of grassroots farmers' organisation AMR 41/029/2009 - Further Information on 103/09 (AMR 41/021/2009, 21 (...)

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Urgent action (follow up) : Mehdi Mazroui (m), 24, alleged juvenile offender -

MDE 13/052/2009 - Further Information on 136/09 (MDE 13/051/2009, 29 May 2009) The execution of Mehdi Mazroui was temporarily halted on 29 May 2009, the day it was due to be carried out in Dastgerd prison in Esfahan, a city in central Iran where he is imprisoned. Mehdi Mazroui was arrested in (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up): Huang Qi (m), aged 46, human rights activist -

ASA 17/025/2009 - Further Information on UA 172/08 (ASA 17/084/2008, 18 June 2008) During a 26 May visit by his lawyer, Sichuan human rights activist Huang Qi claimed that he had been questioned for long hours and sometimes deprived of sleep: he had once been interrogated continuously for (...)

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Urgent Action : Shadi ‘Abdul Karim al-Madhoun (m) aged 28, 'Aamer Saber Hussein al-Jundiya (m) aged 45, ... -

... Salem 'Ali al-Jundiya (m) aged 40, Mo'men Hussein al-Jundiya (m) 37, Nasser Salamah Abu Freih (m) aged 28 , Mohammed Ali Hassan Saidam, (m), aged around 36, Iyad Ahmed Diab Sukkar (m) aged 35 MDE 21/004/2009 - UA 135/09 Amnesty International is gravely concerned that the seven (...)

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Urgent Action (bad news) : Daniel Rueda Becerril (m), aged 16, José Alfredo Arroyo Juárez (m), aged 23, ... -

... Samuel Teroga Rodríguez (m), aged 19, Pablo Domínguez Montiel (m), aged 22 AMR 41/027/2009 - Further Information on UA 112/09 (AMR 41/022/2009, 27 April 2009) The bodies of the four people named above were found on 5 May in a deep ravine in the town of Pilcaya, Guerrero state, about 60 (...)

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Urgent Action : Mehdi Mazroui (m), 24, alleged juvenile offender -

MDE 13/051/2009 - UA 136/09 Mehdi Mazroui is said to be at imminent risk of execution for a crime he is alleged to have committed when he was 17 years old. He was moved to a solitary cell in Dastgerd prison in Esfahan, Iran, on the morning of 29 May 2009, a step the Iranian authorities often (...)

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Urgent Action: Marcelo Freixo, m , Vinicius George, m -

AMR 19/008/2009 - UA 138/09 State parliamentarian Marcelo Freixo and his aide Vinicius George are at risk of being assassinated by milicia groups in Rio de Janeiro. Plans were discovered by police when they raided a milicia group in May. The raid was part of a long-term police operation (...)

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Urgent action (follow up) : Naser Qasemi (m), aged 23, Mohammad Reza Haddadi (m), aged 20, alleged juvenile offenders -

MDE 13/049/2009 - Further Information on UA 71/08 (MDE 13/049/2008, 13 March 2008) and follow-ups (MDE 13/120/2008, 19 August 2008; MDE 13/151/2008, 14 October 2008; MDE 13/048/2009, 26 May 2009) The execution of Mohammad Reza Haddadi was halted by the head of the judiciary the day it was due (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up): Ashraf Kalhori (f) aged about 40, Iran (f) (full name known to Amnesty International) ... -

...Khayrieh (f) (full name known to Amnesty International, a woman known only as “H”, M. Kh (f). Unnamed man, now known to be Rahim Mohammadi (husband and wife) . Unnamed woman, now known to be Kobra Babaei. Executed: Afsaneh R Rahmani (f) MDE 13/050/2009 - Further Information on (...)

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Urgent Action : Lydia Cacho Ribeiro (f), journalist, human rights activist -

AMR 41/028/2009 - UA 137/09 An armed man has been photographing and keeping watch on Lydia Cacho Ribeiro's home and car in Cancún, Quintana Roo state. Lydia Cacho is a well-known human rights activist and journalist who has suffered harassment, threats and arbitrary detention for her work (...)

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Urgent Action (good news): Issa Palkoubou (m), teacher -

AFR 20/004/2009 - Further Information on UA 12/09 (AFR 20/002/2009, 19 January 2009) Issa Palkoubou was released on the morning of 21 May. He was weak and sick, and did not know why he had been detained. He had not been seen since September 2008, when he was abducted at the school where he (...)

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Urgent Action (bad news) : Miguel Alejandro Gama Habif, (m), aged 25 ... -

...Israel Ayala Martínez, (m), aged 20. New name: Aarón Rojas de la Fuente (m), aged 24 AMR 41/026/2009 - Further Information on 88/09 (AMR 41/018/2009, 27 March 2009) The charred bodies of Miguel Alejandro Gama Habif, Israel Ayala Martínez and Aarón Rojas de la Fuente, were found 15km south (...)

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Urgent Action : 12 people, names not known -

MDE 14/015/2009 - UA 134/09 According to Iraqi media citing a spokesman from the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council, 12 people under sentence of death had their sentences upheld by the Cassation Court. Their cases will be referred to Iraq's Presidential Council for ratification, after which they (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up): Naser Qasemi (m), aged 23, Mohammad Reza Haddadi (m), aged 20 : alleged juvenile offenders -

MDE 13/048/2009 - Further Information on UA 71/08 (MDE 13/049/2008, 13 March 2008) and follow-ups (MDE 13/120/2008, 19 August 2008; MDE 13/151/2008, 14 October 2008) Mohammad Reza Haddadi has been scheduled for execution on 27 May. He has been sentenced to death after being convicted of a (...)

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Urgent Action : Khalid ‘Abdul Karim al-Mahamid (m) aged about 48 -

MDE 23/016/2009 - UA 133/09 A man who was jailed for drug smuggling has had his sentence increased to death, and could be executed at any time. Khalid al-Mahamid was arrested in Jeddah in April 2006, and charged with drug smuggling. In March 2007 the Jeddah General Court sentenced him to 10 (...)

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Urgent Action : Joel Vicente Zhunio Samaniego (m), Wilmar Fernando Mejia Reinoso (m), ... -

... Etelvina de Jesus Misacango Chuñir (f), human rights defenders AMR 28/002/2009 - UA 132/09 A government official has threatened to kill human rights defenders Joel Vicente Zhunio Samaniego and Wilmar Fernando Mejia Reinoso. Human rights defender Etelvina de Jesus Misacango Chuñir has been (...)

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Urgent Action (bad news): Dennis James Skillicorn (m), white, aged 49 -

AMR 51/071/2009 - Further information on UA 124/09 (AMR 51/065/2009, 13 May 2009) Dennis Skillicorn was executed in Missouri in the first few minutes of 20 May. He had been sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of Richard Drummond in 1 [ Lire la suite » (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up) : Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi, (f), 75 ... -

...Known only as Fahad (m), aged 24, Known only as Hadyan (m) MDE 23/015/2009 - Further Information on 71/09 (MDE 23/005/2009, 11 March 2009) On or around 19 May, the Court of Cassation in Riyadh refused to ratify the sentence of flogging and imprisonment that had been passed against Khamisa (...)

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Urgent Action : Thousands of villagers displaced -

AFR 44/015/2009 - UA 131/09 Since 13 May 2009, thousands of villagers have been displaced and thousands more are trapped in the cross fire between the Joint Task Force (JTF), which is composed from troops of the army, navy, air force and the mobile police set up in 2004 to restore order in the (...)

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Urgent action (follow up) : Maryam Malek (f) aged 26 -

MDE 13/043/2009 - Further Information on UA 114/09, (MDE 13/039/2009, 29 April 2009) Maryam Malek was released on 29 April 2009 after five days in detention. Her bail had been set at 200 million rials (about US$20,000), but her family could not afford this amount. She was released instead with (...)

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Urgent action (follow up) : Around 80 families from Group 78, central Phnom Penh -

ASA 23/009/2009 - Further Information on UA 110/09 (ASA 23/007/2009, 27 April 2009) The Phnom Penh Municipal Court today dismissed Group 78's request for an injunction to stop the forced eviction of their community. A forced eviction could take place at any time. On 20 April, the Phnom Penh (...)

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Urgent Action : Aleksei Sokolov (m), human rights defender -

EUR 46/011/2009 - UA 128/09 Human rights defender Aleksei Sokolov was detained on 13 May, and is in danger of torture and other ill-treatment. He is the head of the organization Pravovaia Osnova (Legal Basis), which campaigns on torture and other ill-treatment of people held in Russia's (...)

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Urgent Action : Dr.T.Sathiyamoorthy (m) medical doctor; Dr.Varatharajah (m) medical doctor ; Dr.Shanmugarajah (m) medical doctor -

ASA 37/011/2009 - UA 129/09 Amnesty International is concerned for the safety of three government employed doctors who had been working in the conflict zone in North eastern Sri Lanka until 15 May. Dr T. Sathiyamoorthy, Dr T. Varatharajah and Dr. Shanmugarajah were treating the sick and (...)

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Urgent Action : Ramzi Ben Jilani Romdhani (m), aged 32 -

MDE 30/004/09 - UA 130/09 In April 2009, Ramzi Romdhani is reported to have been tortured and otherwise ill-treated by prison officers in Mornaguia Prison, where he is serving a sentence of 29 years' imprisonment imposed under the 2003 anti-terrorism law. When his brother visited him on 23 (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up): Ayatollah Sayed Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi (m), aged 50, Shi'a cleric -

MDE 13/047/2009 - Further Information on UA 262/06 (MDE 13/114/2006, 29 September 2006) and follow-up (MDE 13/120/2006, 13 October 2006; MDE 134/2006, 11 December 2006; MDE 13/140/2007, 30 March 2007; MDE 074/2007, 15 June 2007; MDE 13/103/2007, 10 August 2007; MDE 13/135/2008, 11 September (...)

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Urgent Action (bad news) : Donald Lee Gilson (m), white, aged 48 -

AMR 51/068/2009 - Further information on UA 107/09 (AMR 51/056/2009, 21 April 2009) and updates (AMR 51/060/2009, 30 April 2009; AMR 51/064/2009, 12 May 2009) Donald Gilson was executed in Oklahoma on 14 May. Governor Brad Henry had rejected a recommendation for clemency from the state Pardon (...)

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Urgent Action : Aída Quilcué (f), leader of Indigenous rights organization ... -

...Consejo Regional Indígena del Cauca (CRIC), Cauca Indigenous Regional Council, Her daughter, aged 12. Other CRIC members AMR 23/013/2009 - UA 127/09 Indigenous leader Aída Quilcué, who has been receiving protection ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights since her husband was (...)

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Urgent Action : Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, Yemeni national -

AMR 51/066/2009 - UA 125/09 Yemeni national Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif, who has made a number of suicide attempts in recent months, cut one of his wrists during a meeting with his lawyer in the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba on 10 May. Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif has been held in (...)

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Urgent Action : Dennis James Skillicorn (m), white, aged 49 -

AMR 51/065/2009 - UA 124/09 Dennis Skillicorn is scheduled to be executed in Missouri on 20 May. He was sentenced to death in 1996 for the murder of Richard Drummond in 1994. On 23 August 1994, Richard Drummond stopped to help three men whose car had broken down just outside Kingdom City, (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up): Ayatollah Sayed Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi (m), aged 50, Shi'a cleric -

MDE 13/045/2009 - Further Information on 262/06 (MDE 13/114/2006, 29 September 2006) and follow-up (MDE 13/120/2006, 13 October 2006; MDE 134/2006, 11 December 2006; MDE 13/140/2007, 30 March 2007; MDE 074/2007, 15 June 2007;MDE 13/103/2007, 10 August 2007 and MDE 13/135/2008, 11 September (...)

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Urgent Action : Stephen Sunthararaj (m), Human Rights Defender -

ASA 37/010/2009 - UA 126/09 On 7 May, Stephen Sunthararaj was abducted by five men dressed in military uniform and carrying pistols whilst travelling in his lawyer's car in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo. Stephen Sunthararaj had been released without charge from police custody a few (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up-): Donald Lee Gilson (m), white, aged 48 -

AMR 51/064/2009 - Further information on UA 107/09 (AMR 51/056/2009, 21 April 2009) and updated (AMR 51/060/2009, 30 April 2009) On 11 May, Governor Brad Henry rejected a recommendation from the Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board that he commute Donald Gilson's death sentence to life (...)

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Urgent Action (good news): Roxana Saberi (f), aged 32, journalist, dual US-Iranian national -

MDE 13/044/2009 - Further Information on UA 77/09 (MDE 13/022/2009, 16 March 2009) and follow-up (MDE 13/033/2009, 16 April 2009) Prisoner of conscience Roxana Saberi, was released from prison on 11 May 2009. Branch 14 of the Tehran Appeal Court heard an appeal against her conviction on 10 May (...)

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Urgenet Action (follow-up) : Sultan Bin Khalid Mahmud al-Maskati (m), aged about 23 ... -

...Yusef Bin Hassan Bin Salman al-Muwallad (m), aged 23, Qassim Bin ‘Ali Bin Ibrahim Al-Nakhli (m), aged 23, Sultan Bin Sulayman Bin Muslim al-Muwallad (m), aged 20, ‘Issa Bin Muhammad ‘Umar Muhammad (m), aged 21, Chadian national: executed. Bilal Bin Muslih Bin Jabir (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up) : Maryam Kallis (f), aged 36, UK national ... -

...New name: Yasser Zahur Ahmed (m), aged 28, UK national MDE 24/014/2009 - Further information on UA 90/09 (MDE 24/007/2009, 30 March 2009), and follow-ups (MDE 24/09/2009, 9 April 2009; MDE 24/012/2009, 6 May 2009) Another UK national is now known to have been arrested shortly after Maryam (...)

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Urgent Action : Ifraah Ali Aden (f), aged 30 -

AFR 52/003/2009 - UA 123/09 Ifraah Ali Aden is in imminent danger of being executed for the murder of another woman, Suad Mohamed Aware, who was another of her husband's wives. She was convicted after an unfair trial. The warrant for her execution does not set a date, and it appears that (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up) : 17 Uighur detainees held at Guantánamo -

AMR 51/062/2009 - Further information on UA 278/08 (AMR 51/112/2008, 08 October 2008) and updates (AMR 51/137/2008, 12 November; AMR 51/013/2009, 26 January 2009; AMR 51/027/2009, 19 February 2009) Seven months after a federal judge ruled their detention unlawful and ordered their immediate (...)

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Urgent Action : Abdullah Al-Amin Biplob (m), Journalist -

ASA 13/003/2009 - UA 122/09 Journalist Abdullah Al-Amin Biplob was attacked on 11 April by men identifying themselves as supporters of a local Member of Parliament (MP). This followed the publication of several articles he had written criticising the actions of the MP in the Bangla newspaper (...)

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Urgent action (follow up) : 11 men held without charge in a detention centre known as “Quinta Pitiquito” ... -

... NEW ARRESTS : 2 more men from the Tzeltal Indigenous community AMR 41/024/2009 - Further Information on 103/09 (AMR 41/021/2009, 21 April 2009) All of the men arrested in two separate police operations in the towns of Tuxtla Gutiérrez and Ocosingo, Chiapas state have been either released (...)

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Urgent Action : Zarganar (m), aged 48, pro-democracy activist, comedian -

ASA 16/003/2009 - UA 120/09 Popular comedian Zarganar, who has been imprisoned since June 2008 for helping survivors of Cyclone Nargis, is in urgent need of medical attention for his various health problems. He is now understood to be receiving some medication from the authorities, though it (...)

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Urgent Action : Staff members of the Association for the Study and Promotion of Security under Democracy ... -

... (Asociación para el Estudio y Promoción de la Seguridad en Democracia, SEDEM) and the Human Rights Defenders Protection Unit (Unidad de Protección de Defensoras y Defensores de Derechos Humanos, UDEFEGUA) AMR 34/008/2009 - UA 121/09 Nine members of staff at two prominent Guatemalan human (...)

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Urgent action (follow up) : Maryam Kallis (f), aged 36, UK national -

MDE 24/012/2009 - Further information on UA 90/09 (MDE 24/007/2009, 30 March 2009), and update (MDE 24/09/2009, 9 April 2009) Maryam Kallis received a second visit from two members of staff of the British Consulate in Damascus on 23 April. The meeting took place in the presence of an officer (...)

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Urgent action (follow up) : Around 30 people from the Sinti community in the village of Gambolo’ -

EUR 30/006/2009 - Further Information on UA 109/09 (EUR 30/005/2009, 27 April 2009) Around 30 people belonging to seven families from the Sinti (Roma) community in the village of Gambolo' in the province of Pavia, Italy, are still facing an imminent forced eviction. This is despite the last (...)

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Urgent Action : Awad Aiman (m) -

EUR 63/004/2009 - UA 118/09 Amnesty International fears that Awad Aiman is at immediate risk of being deported by the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and returned to Syria, where he would be at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. Awad Aiman was seized by the authorities of (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up): 128 people, no names -

MDE 14/013/2009 - Further Information on UA 67/09 (AI Index MDE 14/009/2009, 09 March 2009) Amnesty International has learned that the Iraqi authorities executed 12 people on 3 May. The 12 were believed to be among 128 people who had been on death row, and there are fears that more executions (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up): Marcelino Coache Verano (m), Edgar Coache (m), aged about 15, his son ... -

...New names:Reyna Rivera (f), wife of Marcelino, Alba Cruz Ramos (f), Yesica Sanchez Maya (f), Beatriz Casas Arellanes (f) Father Romualdo Francisco Mayrén Peláez: human rights defenders AMR 41/025/2009 - Further Information on UA 68/09 (AMR 41/014/2009, 9 March 2009) and follow-up (AMR (...)

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Urgent Action (bad news): Delara Darabi (f), aged 22, juvenile offender -

MDE 13/042/2009 - Further Information on UA 98/09 (MDE 13/031/2009, 9 April 2009) and follow-ups (MDE 13/032/2009, 17 April 2009 and MDE 13/034/2009, 20 April 2009) On 1 May 2009, Delara Darabi was executed in Rasht Prison, northern Iran. Neither her parents nor her lawyers were notified (...)

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Urgent Action: Mohammad Ali Navid Khamami, [m]. Executed: Vali Azad [m] aged 30 -

MDE 13/041/2009 - UA 117/09 According the Iranian newspaper Ham Mihan, Mohammad Ali Navid Khamami is at imminent risk of stoning to death after being convicted of “adultery while being married” in the city of Rasht, Gilan Province in northern Iran. No further details are available (...)

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Urgent Action : Qassim ‘Askar Jubran (m), retired officer and former Yemeni ambassador ... -

...Ahmad Muhammad Ba Mu'allam (m), Fadi Ba'oom (m) MDE 31/006/2009 - UA 119/09 Qassim ‘Askar Jubran, Ahmad Muhammad Ba Mu'allam and Fadi Ba'oom are being held in incommunicado detention, where they are at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. Unconfirmed reports suggest that they are (...)

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Urgent Action : Zulfiqar Ali Khan (m), aged 38 -

ASA 33/003/2009 - Further Information on UA 302/08 (ASA 33/025/2008, 31 October 2008) Zulfiqar Ali Khan is at imminent risk of execution as his most recent stay is due to expire on 6 May. He has been granted three stays of execution since October 2008. President Zardari rejected his final (...)

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Urgent Action: Approximately 50,000 civilians in the ‘No Fire Zone’, north eastern Sri Lanka -

ASA 37/008/2009 - UA 116/09 Approximately 50,000 civilians are trapped in worsening humanitarian crisis in the Mullaitivu District of northern Sri Lanka. They lack food and medical care and are at grave risk of injury or death in the conflict between the Sri Lankan government forces and an (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up): Donald Lee Gilson (m), white, aged 48 -

AMR 51/060/2009 - Further information on UA 107/09 (AMR 51/056/2009, 21 April 2009) Donald Gilson is now scheduled for execution on 14 May: he had been scheduled to be put to death on 5 May, but Governor Brad Henry has granted a temporary reprieve while he considers Gilson's case for (...)

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Urgent Action : Edgard Lopez Moreno (m) -

AMR 25/005/2009 - UA 115/09 Edgard López Moreno, who was accepted as a refugee by the US government in February 2007, has been repeatedly denied an exit visa by the Cuban authorities. He has been on hunger strike in protest, since 14 April. His wife was accepted as a refugee at the same time (...)

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Urgent Action: 82 Darfuri men (names known to Amnesty International) -

AFR 54/012/2009 - UA 108/09 Sudanese special courts have sentenced 82 Darfuri men to death, after unfair trials, for their alleged involvement in a May 2008 attack on the capital, Khartoum, by a Darfur-based armed opposition group, the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM). The courts that (...)

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Urgent Action: Maryam Malek, (f), aged 26 -

MDE 13/039/2009 - UA 114/09 Maryam Malek was arrested on 25 April by security officials in the Iranian capital, Tehran .She has been charged with “propaganda against the system” in connection with her membership of the Campaign for Equality, that is also known as the One Million (...)

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Urgent Action (good news): Mohamed Al Mahjoub (m), aged 57 -

AFR 54/011/2009 - Further Information on UA 101/09 (AFR 54/010/2009, 14 April 2009) Mohamed Al Mahjoub was released without charge on 17 April. He had spent six days detained incommunicado by the National Security and Intelligence Services (NISS) in El Fasher, North Darfur. He is in good (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up): Zubair Isaevich Zubairaev (m), 30 years old -

EUR 46/008/2009 - Further Information on 342/08 (EUR 46/031/2008, 12 December 2008) and follow-up (EUR 46/005/2009, 10 February 2009; EUR 46/006/2009, 03 March 2009) Zubair Zubairaev was again severely beaten on 10 and 12 April, according to a report from his lawyer. When Zubair Zubairaev's (...)

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Urgent Action : Around 80 families from Group 78, central Phnom Penh -

ASA 23/007/2009 - UA 110/09 On 23 April 2009, the Phnom Penh Municipality distributed a final eviction notification to a community of around 80 families known as Group 78 living on the riverfront in central Phnom Penh. The notification, which was issued on 20 April, gave the community members (...)

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Urgent Action : Around 30 people from the Sinti community in the village of Gambolo’ -

EUR 30/005/2009 - UA 109/09 Around 30 people belonging to seven families from the Sinti community in the village of Gambolo' in the province of Pavia, are facing an imminent forced eviction. On 14 April, the Mayor of the village issued an order for them to leave by 30 April or be forcibly (...)

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Urgent Action: Nganizi Jean-Baptist (m) – refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) -

AFR 59/002/2009 - UA 111/09 Congolese refugee Nganizi Jean-Baptist has been held in Uganda without charge or trial since his arrest on 24 April 2008. Over the course of the year, he has been reportedly tortured and ill-treated, denied access to a lawyer and subjected to incommunicado (...)

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Urgent Action : Daniel Rueda Becerril (m), aged16 , José Alfredo Arroyo Juárez (m), aged 23 ... -

...Samuel Teroga Rodríguez (m), aged 19, Pablo Domínguez Montiel (m), aged 22, AMR 41/022/2009 - UA 112/09 The individuals named above were attacked and abducted by an off-duty police officer from the town of Cuernavaca, Morelos state on 18 April. The three men and the boy have not been seen (...)

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Urgent Action : Yunes Aghayan, (m) -

MDE 13/038/2009 - UA 113/09 Yunes Aghayan, a member of Iran's Azerbaijani minority and an Ahl-e Haq follower, is at imminent risk of execution after being convicted of “enmity against God”. He is held in Oromieh Prison in West Azerbaijan Province, in north-west Iran. Another man, (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up): Khadijeh Moghaddam (f), member of One Million Signatures Campaign and Mothers for Peace ... -

...Mahboubeh Karami (f), member of One Million Signatures Campaign MDE 13/036/2009 - Further Information on UA 86/09 (MDE 13/024/2009, 27 March 2009) and follow-up (MDE 13/026/2009, 2 April 2009) Khadijeh Moghaddam and Mahboubeh Karami have both been released on bail. They and 10 others had (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up): Ali Nejati (m) . New names:Jalil Ahmadi, (m), Fereydoun Nikufar (m), ... -

...Qorban Alipour (m),Mohammad Haydari Mehr (m): trade unionists MDE 13/037/2009 - Further Information on UA 66/09 (MDE 13/019/2009, 10 March 2009) Trade unionist Ali Nejati was released on bail on 14 April 2009. This followed a strike by his fellow workers a week earlier, in which they (...)

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Urgent Action: 11 men held without charge in a detention centre known as “Quinta Pitiquito” -

AMR 41/021/2009 - UA 103/09 Eleven men recently arrested in two separate police operations which took place respectively in the towns of Tuxtla Gutiérrez and Ocosingo, Chiapas state, are being held without charge in an informal detention facility. All men have very restricted access to legal (...)

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Urgent Action: Ernest Manirumva -

AFR 16/003/2009 - UA 104/09 Ernest Manirumva, the vice-president of the non-governmental anti-corruption organization, the Observatory for the Struggle against Corruption and Economic Embezzlement (L'Observatoire de Lutte contre la Corruption et les Malversations Economiques, OLUCOME) was (...)

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Urgent Action: Edgar Neftaly Aldana Valencia (m), 43 years old. His family -

AMR 34/007/2009 - UA 105/09 Trade unionist Edgar Neftaly Aldana Valencia was threatened with death and his house shot at on 1 April. He is the Secretary General of the San Benito branch of the National Health Professionals' Union (Sindicato Nacional de Trabajadores de la Salud) in the northern (...)

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Urgent Action: Ali Aarrass (m), Mohamed el Bay (m) -

EUR 41/007/2009 - UA 106/09 Ali Aarrass and Mohamed el Bay are at imminent risk of being extradited to Morocco, where they would be at risk of incommunicado detention, torture and other ill-treatment as well as an unfair trial. The Spanish national criminal court (Audiencia Nacional) approved (...)

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Urgent Action: Donald Lee Gilson (m), white, aged 48 -

AMR 51/056/2009 - UA 107/09 Donald Gilson is due to be executed in Oklahoma on 5 May. He was sentenced to death in 1998 for murder in connection to the death of his girlfriend's eight-year-old son in 1995. He was convicted under Oklahoma's unique first degree murder statute that allows the (...)

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Urgent Action (bad new): 'Aisha Ghalib al-Hamzi, (f) aged about 40, has seven children -

MDE 31/005/2009 - Further Information on 100/09 (MDE 31/004/2009, 14 April 2009) 'Aisha Ghalib al-Hamzi was executed on 19 April for the murder of her husband; all seven of her children had refused to pardon her. In cases of Qisas (retribution in kind) the relatives of the victim have the (...)

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Urgent Action (good new): Delara Darabi (f), aged 22, juvenile offender -

MDE 13/034/2009 - Further Information on 98/09 (MDE 13/031/2009, 09 April 2009) and follow-up (MDE 13/032/2009, 17 April 2009) Juvenile offender Delara Darabi was granted a two month stay of execution by the Head of the Judiciary on 19 April, the day before she was due to be executed [ Lire la (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up): Roxana Saberi (f), aged 31, journalist, joint US-Iranian national -

MDE 13/035/2009 - Further Information on 77/09 (MDE 13/022/2009, 16 March 2009) and follow-up (MDE 13/033/2009, 16 April 2009) Roxana Saberi, who is a dual US-Iranian national, was sentenced to eight years' imprisonment after being convicted of espionage on 18 April. Amnesty International (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up): Oleg Brega (m) (spelling corrected), Ghenadie Brega (m), Natalia Morari (f): civil society activists -

EUR 59/004/2009 - Further Information on UA 96/09 (EUR 59/002/2009, 9 April 2009) Police detained Natalia Morari on the evening of 13 April and told her that she was suspected of organizing mass public disorder and attempting to overthrow the state. She was released an hour later, and charged (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up): Delara Darabi (f), aged 22, juvenile offender -

MDE 13/032/2009 - Further Information on UA 98/09 (MDE 13/031/2009, 9 April 2009) Delara Darabi has now been scheduled for execution, according to the Iranian newspaper Etemad on 18 April, according to another source on 20 April. She was convicted of murdering a relative when she was 17: (...)

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Urgent Action: Yasser Vilchez Grant Domingo (m), aged 26, Nicaraguan national -

AMR 41/020/2009 - UA 102/09 Nicaraguan national Yasser Vilchez Grant Domingo, who was travelling illegally through Central America, injured his foot in southern Mexico. On account of being a migrant, doctors refused to treat him, and the infection spread to his foot and leg. On 12 March his (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up): Roxana Saberi (f), aged 31, journalist, joint US-Iranian national -

MDE 13/033/2009 - Further Information on UA 77/09 (MDE 13/022/2009, 16 March 2009) Roxana Saberi was brought before a Revolutionary Court in Tehran on 13 April and charged with espionage, in proceedings that took place behind closed doors. She appears to be a prisoner of conscience, detained (...)

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Urgent Action : 'Aisha Ghalib, (f) aged about 40 -

MDE31/004/2009 - UA 100/09 'Aisha Ghalib is at risk of imminent execution. She has exhausted all of the appeals available to her and the death sentence against her has now been ratified by the President. Sources in Yemen have informed Amnesty International that she could be executed as (...)

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Urgent Action : Mohamed Al Mahjoub, (m) aged 57 -

AFR 54/010/09 - UA 101/09 Mohamed Al Mahjoub, acting director of Amal centre for the treatment and rehabilitation of victims of torture in El Fasher, North Darfur, was arrested by National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) officers from his home on 11 April and taken into a NISS (...)

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Urgent Action : Around 32 families living at Borei Keila, Phnom Penh -

ASA 23 /006/2009 - UA 99/09 Around 32 families living with HIV and AIDS are facing forced eviction from Borei Keila, central Phnom Penh. The families have protested at their planned resettlement to a site 20 kilometres from the capital, where they would have no means of income; lose access to (...)

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Urgent Action : Maryam Rostampour (f), aged 27, Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad (f), aged 30, Iranian Christians -

MDE 13/030/2009 - UA 95/09 Two members of the Christian community in Iran, Maryam Rostampour and Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad were arrested on 5 March 2009 by members of the security forces in Tehran. In a telephone call on 28 March Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad said that they are both (...)

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Urgent Action (good news): Brett Xavier Hartman (m), white, aged 34 -

AMR 51/049/2009 - Further information UA 76/09 (AMR 51/037/2009, 13 March 2009) Brett Hartman received a stay of execution from the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit on 31 March. He was due to be put to death in Ohio on 7 April for the murder of Winda Snipes in 1997. [ Lire la suite » (...)

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Urgent Action (follow up): Mohamed Kohail (m), aged 23, Canadian national ; Mehanna Sa’d (m), aged 22, Jordanian national ... -

... Sultan Kohail (m), aged 17, Canadian national MDE 23/008/2009 - Further Information on 116/07 (MDE 23/019/2007, 17 May 2007) and follow-ups (MDE 23/030/2007, 2 August 2007; MDE 23/016/2008, 31 March 2008; MDE 23/012/2008, 8 April 2008; MDE 23/037/2008, 14 August 2008; MDE 23/049/2008, 27 (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up): Maryam Kallis (f), aged 36, UK national -

MDE 24/09/2009 - Further information on UA 90/09 (MDE 24/007/2009, 30 March 2009) Maryam Kallis was visited by the British Consul in Damascus and two of his colleagues on 8 April, in the presence of the Syrian authorities. Although she has been held since 15 March at an undisclosed location, (...)

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Urgent Action : Oleg Bregha (m) , Ghenadie Bregha (m), Natalia Morar (f): civil society activists -

EUR 59/002/2009 - UA 96/09 The authorities in Moldova have threatened to arrest a group of civil society activists who organized a peaceful demonstration, blaming them for the rioting that followed the next day. Amnesty International is concerned that the Moldovan authorities are attempting to (...)

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Urgent Action : Losang Gyaltse (m), Loyar (m) -

ASA 17/015/2209 - UA 97/09 Two Tibetans, Losang Gyaltse and Loyar, were sentenced to death on 8 April by the Municipal Intermediate People's Court in Lhasa, the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR). It is unclear if they will appeal against their sentence. Ultimately all death (...)

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Urgent Action : Delara Darabi (f) aged 22, juvenile offender -

MDE 13/031/2009 - UA 98/09 Delara Darabi's lawyer, Abdolsamad Khorramshahi, fears that his client is at imminent risk of being executed. This follows a telephone call he received from Delara Darabi on 21 March in which she said that she had heard rumours in Rasht Prison that she would be (...)

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Urgent Action (follow up): Muhammad ‘Arif Muhammad al-Dahim (m) ,‘Abdullah Muhammad al-Khalaf (m) , ... -

... Mustafa Muhammad al-Fardan (m) , aged 14-16; Nouh ‘Ali Salih ‘Abdul Jabbar (m), aged 28, Makki Al-‘Abbas (m), aged about 40. Released: Muhammad ‘Ali Muhammad al-Sfawani (m), Hassan Muhammad al-Sadiq (m) , Qassim Muhammad al-Mawsi (m), aged 14-16 MDE 23/007/2009 - (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up): Abbas Hakimzadeh, (m) member of Central Council, Office for the Consolidation of Unity ... -

...Mehdi Mashayekhi (m), Amir Kabir University Islamic Students Association (ISA) member, Nariman Mostafavi (m), ISA member, Ahmad Qasaban (m), ISA member. New Name: Yasser Torkman (m), ISA member MDE 13/029/2009 - Further Information on UA 61/09 (MDE 13/017/2009, 05 March 2009) A fifth (...)

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Urgent Action : Juan Carlos Disla (m), Members of his family. Killed: Nicolás Disla (m), brother of Juan Carlos Disla -

AMR 27/001/2009 - UA 93/09 Nicolás Disla was unlawfully killed by police officers on 28 March in the capital, Santo Domingo. Two days later, one of the officers allegedly responsible made an attempt on the life of his brother, Juan Carlos Disla, as he attended Nicolás Disla's funeral. (...)

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Urgent Action : Joua Va Yang (m) and five family members, Lao Hmong asylum-seekers -

ASA 39/004/2009 - UA 94/09 Joua Va Yang, a Lao Hmong asylum-seeker, his wife and four children, are currently held at Khao Kho district prison in Phetchabun province, northern Thailand. They are at risk of forcible return from Thailand to Laos, where they could face serious human rights (...)

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Urgent Action (follow up): Sanaz Allahyari (f); Nasim Roshana’i (f); Maryam Sheikh (f), ... -

... Amir Hossein Mohammadi-Far (m), all students. New name: Mohammad Pour Abdollah (m) MDE 13/028/2009 - Further Information on UA 60/09 (MDE 13/016/2009, 04 March 2009) Sanaz Allahyari and Amir Hossein Mohammadi-Far were released on 19 March 2009. It is not known whether they have been (...)

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Urgent Action (follow up): About 150 Roma people -

EUR 30/004/2009 - Further information on UA 73/09 (AI Index: EUR 30/002/2009, 13 March 2009) Milan authorities forcibly evicted a community of about 150 Roma people living under an overpass in the north of the city early in the morning of 31 March. According to local newspapers, 70 out of (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up): Khadijeh Moghaddam (f), Mahboubeh Karami (f) ... -

...Released:Leila Nazari (f), Delaram Ali (f), Farkhondeh Ehtesabian (f), Farkhondeh Ehtesabian (f), Baharah Behravan (f), Ali Abdi (m), Amir Rashidi (m), Mohammad Shourab (m), Arash Nasiri Eghbali (m) ,Shahla Forouzanfar (f) : members of the One Million Signatures Campaign . Soraya Yousefi (...)

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Urgent Action : Tan Zuoren (m) aged 55 -

ASA 17/014/2009 - UA 91/09 Sichuan environmental activist and writer Tan Zuoren was detained by the police in Chengdu city, Sichuan province on suspicion of “inciting subversion of state power” on 28 March. He is now detained at Wenjiang Detention Centre. Amnesty International (...)

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Urgent Action: Luís Vaz Martins (m), Lawyer and Human Rights Defender . Other members of the Human Rights League -

AFR 30/002/2009 - UA 92/09 Luís Vaz Martins, lawyer and president of the Human Rights League of Guinea-Bissau has received threats from an armed individual after publicly condemning the arrest and torture of prominent lawyer Pedro Infanda and the beating of former Prime Minister and current (...)

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Urgent Action : Jorge Luis García Pérez, usually known as Antúnez (m), activist, ... -

... Iris Tamara Pérez Aguilera (f), his wife ; Carlos Michael Morales Rodriguez (m), journalist ; Diosiris Santana Pérez (m) ; Ernesto Mederos Arrozarena (m) AMR 25/003/2009 - UA 89/09 Activist and political dissident Jorge Luis García Pérez, usually known as Antúnez, began a hunger strike on (...)

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Urgent Action : Maryam Kallis (f), aged 36, UK national -

MDE 24/007/2009 - UA 90/09 UK national Maryam Kallis has been detained incommunicado in an unknown location since 15 March. She is in danger of torture and other ill-treatment. She has not been allowed access to legal counsel or visits from her family. Maryam Kallis had been in Syria since 5 (...)

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Urgent Action (follow up): Epifanio Pascual Nguema Alogo (m); José Eworo Mba (m) -

AFR 24/006/2009 - Further Information on UA 79/09 (AFR 24/003/2009, 19 March 2009) The police have agreed to allow Epifanio Pascual Nguema Alogo to receive medical treatment. On 23 March he was transferred to a clinic in Bata where he is receiving treatment for injuries caused by torture. His (...)

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Urgent Action (good news) : Wei Liangyue (m) aged 44 husband and wife, Du Yongjing (f) -

ASA 17/013/2009 - Further Information on UA 85/09 (ASA 17/012/2009, 26 March 2009) Human rights lawyer Wei Liangyue and his wife Du Yongjing have been released and returned home after 30 days of detention. Both were released on bail on 30 March pending further investigation. Wei Liangyue (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up): Bertha Oliva (f), coordinator of the Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared in Honduras ... -

...(Comité de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras, COFADEH), Other members of staff at COFADEH AMR 37/003/2009 - Further Information on UA 28/09 (AMR 37/002/2009, 4 February 2009) Bertha Oliva was kept under surveillance on 11 March by a man who fled when he realised he had been (...)

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Urgent Action : Haleh Houshmandi-Salehi (f), Farham (also known as Hadi) Masoumi (m) ... -

...members of the Baha'i community MDE 13/023/2009 - UA 84/09 Two members of the Baha'i community, Haleh Houshmandi-Salehi and Farham Masoumi were arrested after being summoned to appear on 18 March at the Ministry of Intelligence's offices in the city of Shiraz, in Fars Province, south (...)

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Urgent Action : Delaram Ali (f), Leila Nazari (f), Khadijeh Moghaddam (f) ... -

...Farkhondeh Ehtesabian (f), Mahboubeh Karami (f), Baharah Behravan (f), Ali Abdi (m), Amir Rashidi (m), Mohammad Shourab (m), Arash Nasiri Eghbali (m) : members of the One Million Signatures Campaign. Soraya Yousefi (f), member of Mothers for Peace, Shahla Forouzanfar (f), member of Mothers (...)

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Urgent Action : Abumoslem Sohrabi (m), aged 24, juvenile offender -

MDE 13/025/2009 - UA 87/09 Abumoslem Sohrabi is at risk of imminent execution for a murder committed when he was 17 years old. His execution order has been approved by the Supreme Court and passed to the Office for the Implementation of Sentences, the body responsible for seeing that all (...)

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Urgent action: Miguel Angel Casillas Báez (m), his family and other journalists of the newspaper, Diario de los Altos -

AMR 41/017/2009 - UA 82/09 Miguel Angel Casillas, editorial director of local newspaper, Diario de los Altos, was threatened on 18 March by a man claiming to be an official in charge of the Zetas' department (a notoriously criminal organization responsible for hundreds of murders). The threat (...)

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Urgent Action : Members of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó in the municipality of Apartadó, Antioquia Department -

AMR 23/012/2009 - UA 81/09 Members of the Colombian armed forces and paramilitaries are continuing to threaten the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó. A 15-year-old female member of the San José de Apartadó Peace Community was the victim of an attempted rape on 14 March, reportedly by (...)

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Urgent Action : Wei Liangyue (m), aged 44, husband and wife,Du Yongjing (f) -

ASA 17/012/2009 - UA 85/09 Human rights lawyer Wei Liangyue and his wife Du Yongjing were detained on 28 February in the city of Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, reportedly for attending a Falun Gong meeting. They are currently held at Nangang District Detention Centre in Harbin. The authorities (...)

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Urgent Action: Hla Myo Naung (m), pro-democracy activist. Min Ko Naing (m), 46, pro-democracy activist -

ASA 16/002/2009 - UA 83/09 Pro-democracy activists and prisoners of conscience, Hla Myo Naung and Min Ko Naing are in need of urgent and proper medical treatment. Hla Myo Naung is in danger of completely losing his eyesight, having already gone blind in one eye whilst in detention after being (...)

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Urgent Action (follow up): Raúl Hernández (m) ; Manuel Cruz (m) ; Orlando Manzanarez (m), ... -

... Natalio Ortega (m); Romualdo Santiago (m), members of Me'phaa Indigenous People's Organization (OPIM). Rafael Rodriguez Dircio (m); Obtilia Eugenio Manuel (f), 9 other members of OPIM AMR 41/015/2009 - Further Information on UA 314/08 (AMR 41/059/2008, 14 November 2008) and follow up (AMR (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up): Marcelino Coache Verano (m) (political activists) and his family ... -

...New name : Edgar Coache Verano (m) - aged about 15, son of Marcelino AMR 41/016/2009 - Further information on UA 68/09 (AMR 41/014/2009, 9March 2009) On 20 March, Edgar Coache Verano, the son of a prominent political activist, was threatened and intimidated by a group of men in Oaxaca (...)

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Urgent Action (follow-up): Mohammed el Gharani (m), Chadian national, aged 22 -

AMR 51/040/2009 - Further information on UA 49/09 (AMR 51/026/2009, 19 February 2009) More than two months after a US federal judge ordered that Chadian national Mohammed el Gharani be released from the US detention facility at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, he is still held there. Taken into custody (...)

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Urgent Action : Muhammad ‘Ali Muhammad al-Sfawani (m) , Hassan Muhammad al-Sadiq (m) ... -

...Hassan Muhammad al-Sadiq (m) ,Qassim Muhammad al-Mawsi (m): aged 14-16. Muhammad ‘Arif Muhammad al-Dahim (m) , ‘Abdullah Muhammad al-Khalaf (m), Mustafa Muhammad al-Fardan (m) , Nouh ‘Ali Salih ‘Abdul Jabbar (m), aged 28, Makki Al-‘Abbas (m), aged about 40 MDE (...)

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Urgent Action (good news): Bernardin MBANDI (m), retired civil servant, aged 70 -

AFR 62/008/2009 - Further Information on UA 55/09 (AFR 62/005/2009, 2 March 2009) Retired civil servant Bernardin Mbandi was released from Agence Nationale de Renseignements (ANR), National Intelligence Agency detention on 14 March 2009. He held an influential post during the government of (...)

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Urgent Action (good news): Dolly Inefo Mbunga (m); Floribert Chebeya Bahizire (m), ... -

... Donat Tshikaya (m), human rights defenders. New name: Coco Tanda (m) - journalist AFR 62/007/2009 - Further Information on UA 78/09 (AFR 62/006/2009, 16 March 2009) Incommunicado detention/ Fear of torture and other ill-treatment Human rights defenders Floribert Chebeya, Dolly Ibefo (...)

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Urgent Action: Epifanio Pascual Nguema Alogo (m), José Eworo Mba (m) -

AFR 24/003/2009 - UA 79/09 The two men named above are held without charge in Bata Central Police Station. They are in urgent need of medical treatment, which the police have refused. Torture and other ill-treatment are routine practice at Bata Central Police Station. One of the men is known (...)

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Urgent Action : Roxana Saberi (f), aged 31, journalist, joint US-Iranian national -

MDE 13/022/2009 - UA 77/09 Journalist Roxana Saberi, who is a dual US-Iranian national, was arrested on 31 January. She is currently detained in Tehran's Evin Prison. Amnesty International is concerned that she may be a prisoner of conscience, detained solely for the peaceful exercise of (...)

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Urgent Action : Dolly Inefo Mbunga (m); Floribert Chebeya Bahizire (m); Donat Tshikaya (m) , all human rights defenders -

AFR 62/006/2009 - UA 78/09 Human rights defenders Floribert Chebeya Bahizire, Dolly Inefo Mbunga and Donat Tshikaya were arrested on 15 March in Kinshasa, the DRC's capital, by officers of the Police Nationale Congolaise , national police force. According to eyewitnesses, the men were beaten, (...)

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Urgent Action : Ivonne Mallesa (f). Other members of Damas de Blanco -

AMR 25/001/2009 - UA 69/09 Ivonne Mallesa was reportedly briefly detained by the Cuban Security forces on 10 March having been previously detained and released two days earlier. Amnesty International is concerned that were no legal grounds for either detention and believes she was held as a (...)

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Urgent Action: Muhammed Khan Tumani (m), Syrian national, aged 25 -

AMR 51/035/2009 - UA 74/09 Amnesty International is seriously concerned for the health and well-being of Guantánamo detainee Muhammed Khan Tumani. His lawyers have observed a marked deterioration in his mental health which they attribute to his alleged ill-treatment since he was seized seven (...)

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Urgent Action : Halifa Sallah (m) -

AFR 27/001/2009 - UA 72/09 Halifa Sallah was arrested on 8 March at his home in Serrekunda, a suburb of the capital Banjul, and taken to Serrekunda police station by five plain clothed policemen. He is believed to have been arrested for his articles criticising the use of witch-doctors by the (...)

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Urgent Action (follow up): Binyam Mohamed (m), aged 30, Lakhdar Boumediene (m), aged 41 ... -

...Approximately 50 other Guantánamo detainees AMR 51/036/2009 - Further Information on UA 31/09 (AMR 51/018/2009, 09 February 2009) Binyam Mohamed was released on 26 February, and allowed to return to the UK. An unknown number of detainees, including Lakhdar Boumediene, are still on hunger (...)

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Urgent Action (good news): Dia’ el Din Gad (m), aged 23 -

MDE12/020/2009 - Further Information on UA 45/09 (MDE 12/005/2009, 18 February 2009) Dia' el Din Gad was transferred to al-Qota Prison in Giza, on the outskirts of the capital, Cairo, on 24 February, and was able to meet his family and lawyer there on 7 March. He is receiving treatment from (...)

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Urgent Action: About 150 Roma people -

EUR 30/002/2009 - UA 73/09 Milan authorities are preparing to forcibly evict a community of about 150 Roma people living under an overpass in the north of the city. According to local newspapers, they have announced that they will carry out the evictions at some point between 13 and 30 March. (...)

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Urgent Action: Majid Movahedi (m), aged 27 -

MDE 13/021/2009 - UA 75/09 Majid Movahedi has been sentenced to be blinded in both eyes with acid. The Supreme Court upheld the sentence at the beginning of February. On 11 March, a judge in the Office for the Implementation of Sentences spoke about the case, raising fears that the punishment (...)

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Urgent Action: Brett Xavier Hartman (m), white, aged 34 -

AMR 51/037/2009 - UA 76/09 Brett Hartman is due to be executed in Ohio on 7 April. He was sentenced to death in 1998 for the murder of Winda Snipes in 1997. The Ohio Parole Board has recommended that Governor Ted Strickland not intervene to stop the execution. The governor is not bound by this (...)

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Urgent Action: Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi, (f), Syrian national, aged 75, ... -

... Only known as Fahad (m), Saudi Arabian national, aged 24; Only known as Hadyan (m), Saudi Arabian national MDE 23/005/2009 - UA 71/09 On 3 March 2009, a court in the town of al-Shamli, north of the capital Riyadh, sentenced the three named above to floggings and imprisonment on the basis (...)

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Urgent Action : Esmail Salmanpour (m), Majid Tavakkoli (m), ... -

... Hossein Torkashvand (m) , Koroush Daneshyar (m), members of Amir Kabir University's Islamic Students Association (ISA) MDE 13/020/2009 - UA 70/09 The four students named above have been held without charge or trial since their arrest on 5 February 2009. They may be held in section 209 of (...)

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Urgent Action (good news): Alexis Sinduhije (m) -

AFR 16/001/2009 - Further Information on UA 318/08 (AFR 16/007/2008, 19 November 2008) Prisoner of conscience Alexis Sinduhije was released on 11 March, and the charges against him were dropped, on the orders of the High Court (Tribunal de Grande Instance). Alexis Sinduhije is the President (...)

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Urgent Action : Ali Nejati (m), trade unionist -

MDE 13/019/2009 - UA 66/09 Trade unionist Ali Nejati was arrested on 8 March by Ministry of Intelligence officers, following a raid on his home on 28 February. He appears to have been taken to a Ministry of Intelligence detention centre in the province of Khuzestan. Amnesty International (...)

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Urgent Action : Jesús Arturo Torres Parra (m), aged 18 -

AMR 41/013 /2009 - UA 64/09 Jesús Arturo Torres Parra was unlawfully detained, then beaten and threatened with death by federal police officers in Chihuahua City, Chihuahua state on 3 March. He was released a few hours later, though he fears that he and his family are at risk of further (...)

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Urgent Action: Marcelino Coache Verano (m), and his family -

AMR 41/014/2009 - UA 68/09 On 4 March, Marcelino Coache, union activist and leading member of the Popular Assembly of the People of Oaxaca (Asamblea Popular del Pueblo de Oaxaca, APPO), was abducted from Oaxaca City, tortured for several hours and released the following morning. Amnesty (...)

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Urgent Action: 128 people, no names -

MDE 14/009/2009 - UA 67/09 On 9 March 2009 the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council informed Amnesty International that Iraq's Presidential Council has ratified the death sentences of 128 people, whose sentences had been confirmed by the Cassation Court. Consequently, all 128 people are facing (...)

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Urgent Action : Detainees at the Carmichael Road Detention Centre -

AMR 14/001/2009 - UA 65/09 A number of recent media reports in the Bahamas have indicated that people being held at the country's immigration detention centre are being ill-treated. Amnesty International is concerned for their safety. The Carmichael Road Detention Centre, which is located in (...)

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Urgent Action : Sanaz Allahyari (f), Nasim Roshana’i (f), Maryam Sheikh (f), Amir Hossein Mohammadi-Far (m), all students -

MDE 13/016/2009 - UA 60/09 The four students named above, and possibly others, affiliated to the students' rights body, Students for Freedom and Equality (Daneshjouyan-e Azadi Khah va Beraber Talab), were arrested on 01 March and have reportedly been transferred to Evin prison. Amnesty (...)

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Urgent Action : Gheorghe Ionel -

EUR 59/001/2009 - UA 57/09 On 27 February 2009, the whereabouts of Gheorghe Ionel, became unknown. Gheorghe Ionel is mayor of Vorniceni, a village about 35km from the capital of Moldova, and a member of an opposition coalition. It is believed that he may have been abducted by law enforcement (...)

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Urgent Action: Miguel Esteben González Bonilla (m), regional director of the Centre for Legal Studies and Social Research ... -

...(Centro de Estudios Jurídicos e Investigación Social, CEJIS) AMR 18/001/2009 - UA 59/09 On 27 February, a work vehicle being driven by Miguel González was shot at by two men on a motorcycle. The shot narrowly missed him. Amnesty International is seriously concerned for his safety. Miguel (...)

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Urgent Action: Abbas Hakimzadeh, (m) member of Central Council, Office for Strengthening Unity ... -

...Mehdi Mashayekhi (m), Amir Kabir University Islamic Students Association (ISA) member, Nariman Mostafavi (m), ISA member, Ahmad Qasaban (m), ISA member MDE 13/017/2009 - UA 61/09 The four students named above were arrested on 24 February, following their alleged involvement in (...)

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Urgent Action: Lina Paola Malagón Díaz (f), lawyer . Her family ... -

...Other members of the Colombian Commission of Jurists (Comisión Colombia de Juristas) AMR 23/010/2009 - UA 62/09 The Colombian Commission of Jurists (Comisión Colombiana de Juristas), an NGO working on legal human rights issues, has received a paramilitary death threat declaring that one of (...)

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Urgent Action: Abbas Hosseini (m), Afghan national, aged 24, juvenile offender -

MDE 13/018/2009 - UA 63/09 Afghan refugee Abbas Hosseini is in danger of execution for a murder committed when he was 17. His death sentence was upheld on 29 December 2008 by Branch 33 of the Supreme Court, and has now been sent to the head of the judiciary for final approval. The (...)

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Urgent Action : Fabián Ovono Esono (m), José Ndong (m) -

AFR 24/001/2009 - UA 58/09 The two men named above, who fled from Equatorial Guinea to Nigeria in 2003 to escape a crackdown on people suspected of involvement in a coup against the president, were reportedly abducted in Nigeria and returned to Equatorial Guinea in December 2008. The (...)

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Urgent Action : Ouyang Wen (f), aged 48, Falun Gong practitioner -

ASA 17/008/2009 - UA 56/09 Falun Gong practitioner Ouyang Wen began a two-year term of Re-education Through Labour (RTL) in June 2008. While in custody her eyesight began to deteriorate, to the point where she is now almost blind, but she has been given no medical treatment. She was arrested (...)

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Urgent Action : Bernardin MBANDI (m), retired civil servant, aged 70 -

AFR 62/005/2009 - UA 55/09 Retired civil servant Bernardin Mbandi, who held an influential post during the government of President Mobutu (1965-1997), was arrested on 22 January at his home in the capital, Kinshasa. He has been held incommunicado since then, putting him at risk of torture and (...)

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Urgent Action (good news): Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri (m), Qatari national, aged 43 -

AMR 51/032/2009 - Further information on UA 48/09 (AMR 51/022/2009, 18 February 2009) Ali al-Marri – who has been held in indefinite US military detention as a so-called “enemy combatant” for more than five and a half years – has been charged for trial in federal court (...)

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Urgent Action (follow up): Zubair Isaevich Zubairaev (m), aged about 30 -

EUR 46/006/2009 - Further Information on 342/08 (EUR 46/031/2008, 12 December 2008) and follow-up (EUR 46/005/2009, 10 February 2009) Zubair Zubairaev has again reportedly been severely beaten on both 18 and 24 February. On a recent visit to the prison his lawyer saw the marks from the (...)

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Urgent Action : Techi (f) -

AMR 46/004/2009 - UA 52/09 Transgender woman Techi was kidnapped and tortured by members of a local neighbourhood watch patrol (junta vecinal) in the town of Tarapoto in San Martín Province, northern Peru, on 24 January and told that “this is being done to you because you had sex with a (...)

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Urgent Action: YAMAJI Yukio (m), born 1983 ... -

...SHINOZAWA Kazuo (m), born 1952, ZODA Hiroshi (m), born 1976, MAEGAMI Hiroshi (m), born 1971, OGATA Hideki (m), born 1980 ASA 22/002/2009 - UA 54/09 The five men named above, who were convicted of murder between 2002 and 2007, are now believed to be at imminent risk of execution. Justice (...)

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Urgent Action : Mona Said Thabet (f) aged 24, mother of two children ... -

... Yasser Naguib Mahran (m) aged 37, bus driver. Their three children, 16, 3 years old, and 8 months MDE 12/007/2009 - UA 51/09 Mona Said Thabet, Yasser Naguib Mahran, her husband, and their three children are being subjected to a campaign of harassment and intimidation by members of their (...)

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Urgent Action : Carlito de Oliveira (m) (Indigenous leader) ... -

... Nilson Duarte (m); Estevão Duarte (m) (brother); Placida de Oliveira (f) (wife of Carlitos). Inhabitants of Passo Pirajú, Guarani Kaiowa village AMR 19/004/2009 - UA 53/09 On 12 February, around 25 civil police officers stormed the Guarani Kaiowa Indigenous village of Passo Piraju, in the (...)

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Urgent action (follow up) : Manuel Ponce Rosas (m) ; Raúl Lucas Lucía (m) ... -

... Guadalupe Castro Morales, other relatives and other members of the Organization for the Future of Mixtec Indigenous Peoples AMR 41/010/2009 - Further Information on UA 41/09 (AMR 41/007/2009, 16 February 2009) Manuel Ponce Rosas and Raúl Lucas Lucía were found dead late at night on 20 (...)

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Urgent action (follow up) :Cristina Auerbach Benavides (f), human rights defender -

AMR 41/011/2009 - Further Information on UA 272/08 (AMR 41/050/2008, 24 September 2008) Cristina Auerbach Benavides, a well known campaigner, with the Catholic organization Pastoral Laboral, has recently been harassed in Mexico City home by men claiming to be police. This appears to be a (...)

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Urgent action (good news) : Sa’dun Sheikhu (m), aged 43, Kurdish political activist ... -

... Mohammad Sai'd ‘Omar (m), aged 53, Kurdish political activist MDE 24/005/2009 - Further information on UA 339/08 (MDE 24/036/2008, 11 December 2008) Kurdish political activists Sa'dun Sheikhu and Mohammad Sai'd ‘Omar are now being detained at ‘Adra prison in the capital, (...)

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Urgent action (follow up) : Fidelis Chiramba (m), aged 72 ... -

...Gandhi Mudzingwa (m), Kisimusi Dhlamini (m)] Activists for the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) AFR 46/015/2009 - Further Information on UA 39/09 (AFR 46/012/2009, 12 February 2009) Political activists Fidelis Chiramba and Gandhi Mudzingwa are currently receiving medical treatment in (...)

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Urgent Action : Manuel Calel Morales (m), coordinator of the Guiding Association which Leads the ‘Land of Maize’ People ... -

...(Asociación Guía que Conduce al Pueblo Tierra del Maíz – Kamal B'e Rex Tinamit Ixim Ulew). Girl relative of Manuel Calel Morales. Other relatives of Manuel Calel Morales AMR 34/006/2009 - UA 44/09 A girl who is also a relative of Manuel Calel Morales, coordinator of a (...)

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Urgent action : Ashraf Kalhori (f), aged about 40. Iran (f) (full name known to Amnesty International) ... -

...Khayrieh (f) (full name known to Amnesty International). Afsaneh R (f). A woman known only as “H”. M.Kh (f). Unnamed man. Unnamed woman. Executed: Abdollah Farivar Moghaddam (m), aged about 50. MDE 13/015/2009 - UA 50/09 Abdollah Farivar Moghaddam was executed by hanging on 19 (...)

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Action Urgente (bonne nouvelle) : Pépé Nginamau Malaba (m), trade unionist -

AFR 62/004/2009 - Further Information on UA 38/09 (AFR 62/002/2009, 11 February 2009) On 17 February, after nearly one month in illegal incommunicado detention, trade union leader Pépé Nginamau Malaba was transferred to Kinshasa's central prison, the Centre Pénitentiaire et de Rééducation de (...)

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Action Urgente (mauvaise nouvelle): Edward Nathaniel Bell (m), Jamaican national, black, aged 44 -

AMR 51/029/2009 - Further information on UA 37/09 (AMR 51/019/2009, 10 February 2009) Edward Bell was executed in Virginia on the evening of 19 February. He was sentenced to death in 2001 for the murder of a police officer, Sergeant Richard Timbrook, in 1999. Edward Bell, who was convicted on (...)

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Action Urgente (bonne nouvelle) : Mustafa Jum’ah (m), aged 62, Kurdish political activist -

MDE 24/004/2009 - Further Information on UA 26/09 (MDE24/001/2009, 30 January 2009) Mustafa Jum'ah, Kurdish political activist and prisoner of conscience, is now being detained at ‘Adra prison in the capital, Damascus. He had been kept in incommunicado detention for almost a month (...)

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Action Urgente(suite) : Ahmed Zaid Salem Zuhair (m), Saudi Arabian national, aged 44 -

AMR 51/028/2009 - Further information on UA 350/08 (AMR 51/156/2008, 23 December 2008) The medical condition of Guantánamo detainee Ahmed Zuhair, who has been on hunger strike and a force feeding regime since 2005, has worsened. On a recent visit to meet him at the base, his US lawyers (...)

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Action Urgente : Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri (m), Qatari national, aged 43 -

AMR 51/022/2009 - UA 48/09 On 23 March, in what could be a litmus test for the future direction of US counter-terrorism detention policy, the US Justice Department is due to file its legal arguments in the Supreme Court in the case of Ali al-Marri, the only person being held on the US mainland (...)

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Action Urgente : Hollman Morris (m), journalist. His family and colleagues -

AMR 23/007/2009 - UA 46/09 Journalist Hollman Morris has received numerous threatening e-mails accusing him of being a member of a guerrilla group, and saying that he should die. He, his family and his colleagues are in danger. In the last week of January Hollman Morris was in a remote part (...)

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Action Urgente : Dia' el Din Gad (m), aged 23 -

MDE 12/005/2009 - UA 45/09 Student blogger Dia' el Din Gad, who has been denouncing President Mubarak for Egypt's policy towards the Gaza Strip and the authorities' attitude to the delivery of humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza, was arrested on 6 February by State Security (...)

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Action Urgente (suite): 17 Uighur detainees held at Guantánamo -

AMR 51/027/2009 - Further information on UA 278/08 (AMR 51/112/2008, 08 October 2008) and updates (AMR 51/137/2008, 12 November 2008; AMR 51/013/2009, 26 January 2009) On 18 February, the US Court of Appeals overturned the District Court ruling ordering the release into the USA of 17 Uighurs (...)

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Action Urgente:Members of human rights organizations and trade unions working in the city of Bucaramanga, Santander Department -

AMR 23/008/2009 - UA 47/09 Paramilitaries have threatened to kill members of seven human rights organizations and trade unions working in the city of Bucaramanga, in the northern Department of Santander. On 27 January, a written death threat was delivered by courier to the Bucaramanga office (...)

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Action Urgente : Mohammed el Gharani (m), Chadian national, aged 22 -

AMR 51/026/2009 - UA 49/09 More than a month after a US federal judge ordered that Chadian national Mohammed el Gharani be released from the US detention facility at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, he is still held there. Taken into custody when he was a child, he has spent nearly a third of his life (...)

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Action Urgente (bonne nouvelle) : Philip Rizk (m) 26 year old, an Egyptian-German dual national -

MDE 12/004/2009 - Further Information on UA 35/09 (MDE 12/002/2009, 10 February 2009) and follow-up (MDE 12/003/2009, 11 February 2009) Philip Rizk was released uncharged on 11 February 2009 at 2am after having spent four days in incommunicado detention in the custody of State Security (...)

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Action Urgente (mauvaise nouelle) : Bashir Sultan Mohamed al-Ja’fari (m), aged 23 -

MDE 31/003/2009 - Further Information on UA 25/09 (MDE 31/001/2009, 30 January 2009) and follow-up (MDE 31/002/2009, 6 February 2009) Bashir Sultan Mohamed al-Ja'fari, a soldier in the Yemeni army, was executed on 7 February. Bashir Sultan Mohamed al-Ja'fari was detained in the military (...)

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Hassam Hussein ‘Ali (m), aged 31, Kurdish political activist -

MDE 24/003/2009 - UA 43/09 Kurdish political activist Hassam Hussein ‘Ali has been held in incommunicado detention since his arrest by Military Intelligence agents on 3 December 2008. He is believed to still be held in the custody of Military Intelligence, possibly, according to some (...)

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Members of the Sawhoyamaxa and Yakye Axa Indigenous communities... -

...especially young children and the elderly. Dead: Six people between the ages 4 months and 76 years AMR 45/006/2009 - UA 40/09 Six people from the Sawhoyamaxa Indigenous community living in Santa Elisa, in Paraguay's Chaco region, have died in the last seven weeks from what appear to be (...)

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Manuel Ponce Rosas (m); Raúl Lucas Lucía (m)... -

...Their relatives and other members of the Organization for the Development of Mixtec Indigenous Peoples AMR 41/007/2009 - UA 41/09 Manuel Ponce Rosas and Raúl Lucas Lucía were abducted on 13 February in Ayutla de los Libres municipality, Guerrero State by armed men who local human rights (...)

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Jeffrey D. Hill (m), black, aged 44 -

AMR 51/020/2009 - Further information on UA 30/09 (AMR 51/017/2009, 09 February 2009 Ohio Governor Ted Strickland granted clemency to Jeffrey Hill on 12 February. He had been due to be executed on 3 March. Jeffrey Hill was sentenced to death in 1992 for the murder of his mother, Emma Hill, in (...)

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Du Yimin (f), aged 43, businessperson -

ASA 17/007/2009 - UA 42/09 Businesswoman Du Yimin was sentenced to death in March 2008. Her appeal was rejected on 13 January, and her sentence will now be reviewed by the Supreme People's Court. If it upholds her sentence, she could be executed within days. She was convicted of (...)

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Fredy Peccerelli (m), Executive Director of the Guatemalan Forensic AnthropologyFoundation... -

...(Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala, FAFG), Gianni Peccerelli (m), his brother, and other relatives. Other members of FAFG staff AMR 34/005/2009 - Further Information on UA 7/09 (AMR 34/002/2009, 12 January 2009) Fredy Peccerelli, his family and colleagues are no longer in (...)

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Iran (f), Khayrieh (f), Kobra N (f), aged 44, Soghra Mola'i (f), Fatemeh, Abdollah Farivar Moghaddam (m), about 50 -

MDE 13/014/2009 - Further Information on UA 257/06 (MDE 13/113/2006, 28 September 2006 and follow-up, MDE 13/141/2006, 21 December 2006) Kobra N has had her sentence of stoning commuted to 100 lashes. On 19 January 2009 her lawyer, Maryam Kiyan Ersi, told the Women's Field website (...)

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Julio César Vásquez Calle (m), journalist ... -

... 28 members of peasant communities in Piura Region AMR 46/003/2009 - UA 33/09 Journalist Julio César Vásquez Calle is pursuing a complaint to the Piura region prosecutor's office against police officers and mining company security guards he claims tortured him while he was reporting (...)

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Pépé Nginamau Malaba (m), trade unionist -

AFR 62/002/2009 - UA 38/09 Trade union leader Pépé Nginamau Malaba, who represents trade union members at the Ministry of the National Economy and Trade, was arrested on 19 January in Kinshasa, the DRC's capital. He has been held incommunicado since then, putting him at risk of torture and (...)

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Philip Rizk (m), aged 26, German-Egyptian dual national -

MDE 12/003/2009 - Further Information on UA 35/09 (MDE 12/002/2009, 10 February 2009) Philip Rizk was released in the morning of 11 February. No further action is requested from the UA network. Many thanks to all who sent appeals.

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Raúl Hernández (m) ,Manuel Cruz (m) : members of Me’phaa Indigenous People’s Organization ... -

...Orlando Manzanarez (m)(OPIM), Natalio Ortega (m), Romualdo Santiago (m). Eight others members of OPIM. New names: Rafael Rodriguez Dircio (m), Obtilia Eugenio Manuel (f) AMR 41/006/2009 - Further Information on UA 314/08 (AMR 41/059/2008, 14 November 2008) OPIM member Rafael Rodriguez (...)

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Fariba Kamalabadi Taefi (f) aged 46, homemaker... -

...Jamaloddin Khanjani (m), aged 76, businessman , Afif Naeimi (m), aged 47, industrialist, Saeid Rezaei (m), aged 50, engineer, Behrouz Tavakkoli (m), aged 57, lecturer, , Vahid Tizfahm (m), aged 37, optometrist, Mahvash Sabet (f), aged 57, homemaker/former teacher : members of the Baha'i (...)

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Lewis Gardner (m), Sheldon Isaac (m)... -

...Romeo Cannonier (m),Ruedeney Williams (m), Travis Duport (m), Evanson Mitcham (m), Warrington Philips (m): Death row prisoners AMR 59/001/2009 - UA 36/09 The seven men named above, who make up the entire population of death row on St Kitts and Nevis, may now be in greater danger of being (...)

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Fidelis Chiramba (m), aged 72... -

...Gandhi Mudzingwa (m), Kisimusi Dhlamini (m): Activists for the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) AFR 46/012/2009 - UA 39/09 Political activists Fidelis Chiramba, Gandhi Mudzingwa and Kisimusi Dhlamini are being detained at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in the capital, Harare after (...)

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Binyam Mohamed (m), aged 30; Lakhdar Boumediene (m), aged 41; approximately 50 other Guantánamo detainees -

AMR 51/018/2009 - UA 31/09 Approximately 50 detainees held in military custody at the US Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, are currently on hunger strike. The majority of the hunger strikers are being force-fed by the Guantánamo authorities. The force-feeding methods may amount to cruel, (...)

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Seven people, names not known -

MDE 14/004/2009 - UA 32/09 According to the Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council's website, seven people under sentence of death had their sentences upheld by the Cassation Court on 8 February. This means their cases will be referred to Iraq's Presidential Council for ratification, after which they (...)

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Jeffrey D. Hill (m), black, aged 44 -

AMR 51/017/2009 09 - UA 30/09 Jeffrey Hill is due to be executed in Ohio on 3 March. He was sentenced to death in 1992 for the murder of his mother in 1991. The state parole board has unanimously recommended that Ohio's Governor, Ted Strickland, commute Jeffrey Hill's death sentence. The (...)

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Zubair Isaevich Zubairaev (m), aged about 30 -

EUR 46/005/2009 - Further Information on UA 342/08 (EUR 46/031/2008, 12 December 2008) The health of Zubair Isaevich Zubairaev, a Chechen imprisoned in Volgograd, southern Russia, has deteriorated. Sources close to him report that he has lost weight, has back pain, and stomach pains which may (...)

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Leidy Johanna Vélez Moreira (f), police officer, her family ... -

...Killed: Yandry Javier Vélez Moreira (m), Juan Miguel Vélez Cedeño (m) AMR 28/001/2009 - UA 34/09 Police Officer, Leidy Johanna Vélez Moreira and her family have been subjected to an ongoing campaign of intimidation by the police since October 2007. The most recent threats took place on 23 (...)

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Philip Rizk (m) 26 year old, an Egyptian-German dual national -

MDE 12/002/2009 - UA 35/09 Philip Rizk has been held in incommunicado detention at an unknown location, following his arrest at a peaceful march on, 6 February. He is believed to be in the custody of State Security Investigations (SSI) services. His whereabouts remains unknown and Amnesty (...)

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Edward Nathaniel Bell (m), Jamaican national, black, aged 44 -

AMR 51/019/2009 - UA 37/09 Edward Bell is due to be executed in Virginia at 9pm local time on 19 February. He was sentenced to death in 2001 for the murder of a police officer in 1999. Edward Bell, who was convicted on largely circumstantial evidence, has consistently maintained his innocence (...)

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Bashir Sultan Mohamed al-Ja’fari (m), aged 23 -

MDE 31/002/2009 - Further Information on UA 25/09 (MDE 31/001/2009, 30 January 2009) Bashir Sultan Mohamed al-Ja'fari, a soldier in the Yemeni army, has had his execution postponed, but may face the death penalty in the next few days. He has exhausted all his appeals after being sentenced to (...)

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Bahman Salimian (m), aged 27, juvenile offender -

MDE 13/011/2009 - Further Information on UA 252/08 (MDE13/134/2008, 11 September 2008) and follow up (MDE/13/008/2009, 30 January 2009) The execution of juvenile offender Bahman Salimian, scheduled to be carried out on 5 February, was halted late on 4 February by order of the Head of the (...)

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Gao Zhisheng (m), aged 44 -

ASA 17/005/2009 06 February 2009 - Further information on UA 24/09 (ASA 17/004/2009, 02 February 2009) According to the US-based Radio Free Asia, Gao Zhisheng was taken away from his home in Shaanxi Province by more than 10 security agents on 4 February. His whereabouts are unknown. Amnesty (...)

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About 1,600 migrants, mostly Tunisian nationals -

EUR 30/001/2009 - UA 29/09 Over 1,600 migrants who have arrived over the past weeks on the island of Lampedusa are detained there, according to an official statement of 23 January by the Minister of Interior, who added that 150 migrants had already been returned from Lampedusa since 1 January. (...)

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Bertha Oliva (f), coordinator of the Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared in Honduras ... -

...(Comité de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras, COFADEH). Other members of staff at COFADEH AMR 37/002/2009 - UA 28/09 Bertha Oliva, coordinator of the Committee of Relatives of the Disappeared in Honduras (Comité de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos en Honduras, COFADEH) (...)

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Gao Zhisheng (m), aged 48 -

ASA 17/004/2009 - UA 24/09 Beijing-based human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng, who has been under house arrest since November 2007, was taken into custody on or shortly after 19 January. He is being held incommunicado at an unknown location. In the light of the harsh treatment he received earlier, (...)

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Nabil Khlioui (m), aged 49, telecommunications worker ... -

... New names: ‘Abdel Hadi al-Salameh (m), university student ; Belal Sufian (m) ; Iyad Hussein (m) ; Mohammed Taha (m) ; Thabet al-Hasan (m); ‘Abdel Razaq al-Kbaisy (m) ; Mansour Khero al-Atrash (m); Khaldoun al-Jazaery (m). Deceased: Mohammed Amin al-Shawa (m), 42, mathematics (...)

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Bahman Salimian (m), aged 27, juvenile offender -

MDE 13/008/2009 - Further Information on UA 252/08 (MDE13/134/2008, 11 September 2008) Juvenile offender Bahman Salimian is again at imminent risk of being executed. His family told his lawyer on or around 22 January that they had received notification of his execution, now scheduled to take (...)

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Bashir Sultan Mohamed al-Ja’fari (m), aged 23 -

MDE 31/001/2009 - UA 25/09 Bashir Sultan Mohamed al-Ja'fari, who is a solider in the Yemeni army, is facing imminent execution. According to information received by Amnesty International, he could be executed as early as 4 February. He has exhausted all his appeals and the death sentence (...)

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Mustafa Jum’ah (m), aged 62, Kurdish political activist -

MDE 24/001/2009 - UA 26/09 Kurdish political activist Mustafa Jum'ah has been held in incommunicado detention since his arrest by Military Intelligence officers on 10 January. He is believed to be still in the custody of Military Intelligence, possibly, according to some reports, at the Far' (...)

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Robert San Aung (m), 54, Lawyer -

ASA 16/001/2009 - UA 27/09 Amnesty International is concerned for the safety and well-being of Robert San Aung, a pro-democracy activist and prisoner of conscience. Robert is suffering from dysentery, is generally in poor health and in need of urgent medical attention. It is not clear if he (...)

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MAKINO Tadashi (m), born 1950 -

ASA 22/001/2009 - Further Information on UA 160/08 (ASA 22/002/2008, 6 June 2008) and follow-ups (ASA 22/005/2008 27 June 2008; ASA 22/010/2008, 1 October 2008) Makino Tadashi was hanged on 29 January. He was one of four men put to death that day. He had lost his final appeal on 29 May 2008, (...)

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Dean Walcott (m) -

AMR 20/008/2009 - Further Information on UA 22/09 (AMR 20/007/2009, 23 January 2009) Dean Walcott has been allowed to stay in Canada until the country's Federal Court decides whether or not to review his case. It is not yet known when this will be decided. He had been due to be deported to the (...)

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Naji Jawdat Hamdan (m), aged 44 -

MDE 25/001/2009 - UA 23/09 Naji Jawdat Hamdan, a US citizen of Lebanese origin, has been charged with terrorism-related offences and is likely to face trial within days, apparently on the basis of a statement he signed after being tortured. Amnesty International fears that he is at risk of (...)

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Dozens of Eritrean asylum-seekers -

MDE 12/001/2009 - Further Information on UA 348/08 (MDE 12/025/2008, 18 December 2008) At least 36 people who had been held in a detention facility in Nakhl, northern Sinai, were among some 100 Eritrean asylum-seekers forcibly returned from Egypt between 23 December 2008 and 18 January 2009. (...)

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17 Uighur detainees held at Guantánamo -

AMR 51/013/2008 - Further information on UA 278/08 (AMR 51/112/2008, 08 October 2008) and update (AMR 51/137/2008, 12 November 2008) Seventeen ethnic Uighurs, in their seventh year of indefinite military detention in the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, remain there nearly four months (...)

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Larry Ray Swearingen (m), white, aged 37 -

AMR 51/014/2009 - Further information on UA 17/09 (AMR 51/008/2009, 21 January 2009) Larry Swearingen was granted a stay of execution on 26 January by a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the federal court one level below the US Supreme Court with jurisdiction (...)

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Dr Arash Alaei (m), doctor; Dr Kamiar Alaei (m), doctor and brother of Arash Alaei -

MDE 13/007/2009 - Further Information on UA 216/08 (MDE 13/108/2008, 6 August 2008) and follow-ups (MDE 13/181/2008, 23 December 2008 and MDE 13/003/2009, 15 January 2009) Doctors Arash and Kamiar Alaei learned on 19 January that they had been sentenced to six and three years' (...)

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James Balao (m), aged 47, Indigenous rights activist -

ASA 35/001/2009 - Further Information on UA 274/08 (ASA 35/007/2008 25 September 2008) and follow-up (ASA 35/009/2008 6 November 2008; ASA 35/010/2008 19 November 2008) On 19 January 2009, the Regional Trial Court in La Trinidad, Benguet province, ruled that the authorities must disclose the (...)

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Vu Hung (m), teacher -

ASA 41/001/2009 - UA 18/09 Vu Hung, a teacher held in pre-trial detention since 18 September 2008, has not been seen since he was moved from his cell in B14 prison, Ha Noi, two months ago. His health had deteriorated after reportedly being beaten during several interrogation sessions, and (...)

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Ibrahim Karim Mohammed al-Qaragholi (m), aged 30 -

MDE 14/003/2009 - UA 19/09 Ibrahim Karim Mohammed al-Qaragholi has been sentenced to death for kidnapping and killing three US soldiers. According to one of Ibrahim Karim Mohammed al-Qaragholi's lawyers, the Court of Cassation will meet to consider his appeal within the next two weeks. If the (...)

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Ayadh Mana’ Wanas Matar (m), aged 37; Hussein Baida Abud (m), aged 23 ... -

...Jamil (m), aged 25; Mahmoud Shekar (m), aged 42; Khaled Mitan (m), aged 25. At least 10 others: Iraqi nationals MDE 23/002/2009 - UA 20/09 The men named above are among at least 15 Iraqi nationals feared to be at imminent risk of execution. They have all been sentenced to death for various (...)

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Mohammad Abdul Amir (m), aged 34, married with children, Iraqi national -

MDE 23/003/2009 - UA 21/09 Mohammad Abdul Amir is at imminent risk of execution. He was sentenced to death for murder. The children of the murdered victim have recently reached the age of majority and have provided their agreement for the sentence of death to be carried out. Mohammad Abdul (...)

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Dean William Walcott (m), conscientious objector -

AMR 20/007/2009 - UA 22/09 The Canadian authorities intend to deport US serviceman, Dean Walcott, to the USA on 30 January. He fled to Canada in December 2006 because of his conscientious objection to the war in Iraq. At the time he made his decision to flee, Dean Walcott was involved in (...)

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Transgender human rights defender (name known to Amnesty International) (f) ... -

... Killed: Cintia Nicole Moreno (f), transgender human rights defender ; Jazmín Zelaya (f), transgender woman AMR 37/001/2009 - UA 16/09 Police officers are alleged to have beaten up a transgender woman, who is an HIV/AIDS campaigner and sex worker, after she refused to give them her money. (...)

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Larry Ray Swearingen (m), white, aged 37 -

AMR 51/008/2009 - UA 17/09 Larry Swearingen is scheduled to be executed in Texas on 27 January. He was sentenced to death in 2000 for the murder of Melissa Trotter in 1998. He maintains his innocence of the murder. Several forensic experts have provided statements and testimony supportive of (...)

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Ji Sizun (m) aged 59 -

ASA 17/003/2009 - Further Information on UA 332/08 (ASA 17/112/2008, 5 December 2008) On 7 January, legal activist Ji Sizun was sentenced by the Taijiang District People's Court in Fuzhou, Fujian Province to three years' imprisonment for “forging official documents and faking official (...)

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Chen Zhenping (f), Falun Gong practitioner -

ASA 17/002/2009 - Further information on UA 305/08 (ASA/17/103/2008, 3 November 2008) Chen Zhenping was sentenced in August 2008, after a secret trial, to eight years imprisonment for "using a heretical organization to subvert the law". Chen Zhenping's family fear that she is likely to be (...)

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Issa Palkoubou (m), teacher -

AFR 20/002/2009 - UA 12/09 Issa Palkoubou, a teacher in the Chadian capital, Ndjamena, has not been seen since his abduction on 3 September 2008. Amnesty International believes that he may still be alive, and could be in the custody of Chadian security forces at an unknown location. He is at (...)

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Vasilii Georgievich Aleksanian (m), aged 37 -

EUR 46/003/2009 - Further Information on UA 13/08 (EUR 46/002/2008, 18 January 2008) and follow-up (EUR 46/009/2008, 15 February 2008) – Health concern/unfair trial On 31 December 2008, Vasilii Aleksanian was released on bail of 50 million roubles (more than US$1.5 million). The money (...)

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Emanuel Zeltser (m), US national -

EUR 49/002/2009 - Further Information on UA 121/08 (EUR 49/006/2008 7 May 2008) and follow-up (EUR 47/007/2008, 16 June 2008; and EUR 49/009/2008, 31 July 2008) US national Emanuel Zeltser was sentenced on 11 August 2008 to three years in prison for “using false official documents” (...)

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Leaders of the Movement of United Vendors of the Streets of Coatepeque ... -

...(Movimiento de Comerciantes Unidos de las Calles de Coatepeque) Killed: Amado Corazón Monzón (m), one of the leaders of this movement, Armando Donaldo Sánchez Betancurt (m), independent lawyer and advisor to the leadership of the movement AMR 34/ 003/2009 - UA 8/09 A leader of the street (...)

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Gilan Mohammadi(f),aged about 30, Gholamali Eskandari (m) -

MDE 13/005/2009 - UA 10/09 The two people detained above are believed to have been detained since 2003, and were sentenced to death by stoning probably in 2005 or 2006. Their sentences are believed to have been confirmed by the Supreme Court sometime in 2008. The Head of the Judiciary declared (...)

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Rubén Valencia Núñez (m) -

AMR 41/003/2009 - UA 13/09 Rubén Valencia Núñez was harassed and attacked on 10 January. He is an activist with Oaxacan Voices Building Autonomy and Liberty (Voces Oaxaqueñas Construyendo Autonomía y Libertad, VOCAL), which is part of umbrella organization Popular Assembly of the People of (...)

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Khaled al-‘Omair (m), Mohammed al-‘Otaibi (m), Kamil ‘Abbas al-Ahmad (m), aged 43 ... -

...Zuhair al-Janbi (m), aged 26. At least 21 other men MDE 23/001/2009 - UA 14/09 The men named above, and at least 21 others, have been detained after taking part in or attempting to hold protests against Israel's current military action in Gaza. They are held incommunicado, and Amnesty (...)

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Residents of Lomas del Poleo, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua state. -

AMR 41/004/2009 - UA 15/09 People living in an area northwest of Ciudad Juarez called called Lomas del Poleo, are being harassed and attacked by private security guards hired by landowners who dispute their ownership of the land. The incidents appear to have intensified since the end of last (...)

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Katia Camargo (f), Her two children, aged 11 and 15 -

AMR 19/002/2009 15 January 2009 - Further Information on UA 306/08 (AMR 19/015/2008, 5 November 2008) After receiving a series of threats, Katia Camargo and her two children entered a witness protection programme on 5 January. They are no longer believed to be in grave danger. Katia Camargo (...)

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Dr Arash Alaei (m), Doctor; Dr Kamiar Alaei (m), Doctor, brother of Arash Alaei -

MDE 13/003/2009 - Further Information on UA 216/08 (MDE 13/108/2008, 6 August 2008) and follow-up (MDE 13/181/2008, 23 December 2008) Brothers Arash Alaei and Kamiar Alaei, doctors specializing in the prevention and management of HIV and AIDS, were tried on 31 December in proceedings that did (...)

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Hassan Al Turabi (m), aged 76, opposition group leader -

AFR 54/007/2009 - UA 9/09 Hassan Al Turabi, leader of the opposition group Popular Congress Party (PCP), was arrested on 14 January by armed agents of the Sudanese National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS), at his home in the capital, Khartoum. He has been held incommunicado, without (...)

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Up to 45 migrants in San Cristobal de las Casas Municipality, Chiapas State -

AMR 41/002/2009 - UA 11/09 On 9 January, Chiapas state police officers shot at a van carrying around 45 undocumented migrants in San Cristobal de las Casas Municipality. Three of the migrants were killed and a further eight were seriously injured. Amnesty International fears that the migrants (...)

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Ma'soumeh Ka'bi, aged 31 ... -

... Shima' Nabgan (f), aged 14 , Asia Nabgan (f), aged 13, Asma' Nabgan (f), aged 11, Iyad Nabgan (m), aged 8, Imad Nabgan (m), aged 4, her children MDE 13/002/2009 - Further Information on UA 279/08 (MDE 13/147/2008, 10 October 2008) Ma'soumeh Ka'bi was sentenced to four-and-a-half (...)

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Rang Lai Mro (m), Indigenous community leader -

ASA 13/001/2009 - Further Information on UA 276/08 (ASA 12/003/2008, 26 September 2008) and follow-up (ASA 13/010/2008, 28 November 2008) Rang Lai Mro was released on bail on 8 January, on the orders of the Bangladesh High Court. The head of a community of indigenous Mro people, he had been (...)

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Fredy Peccerelli (m), Executive Director of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation ... -

... (Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala, FAFG); Gianni Peccerelli (m), his brother, and other relatives. Other members of FAFG staff AMR 34/002/2009 - UA 7/09 Fredy Peccerelli, who heads an organization that carries out forensic exhumations of mass graves from the time of (...)

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Tan Chor Jin (m), aged 42 -

ASA 36/001/2009 12 January 2009 Further Information on UA 35/08 (ASA 36/001/2008, 11 February 2008) Tan Chor Jin was hanged in the morning of 9 January. The president had rejected his appeal for clemency in the last week of December. The appeal for presidential clemency is the final hope for (...)

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Jamila Nabgan (f), aged 43, member of Arab minority in Iran -

MDE 13/001/2009 - Further Information on UA 286/08 (MDE 13/152/2008, 20 October 2008) and follow-up (MDE 13/160/2008, 31 October 2008) – Jamila Nabgan is now free on bail, and is no longer being detained for 14 hours a day by the Ministry of Intelligence. She had been arrested at her (...)

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José Luís da Silva(m), peasant farmer and land rights activist ... -

... Severina dos Santos Silva (f), his wife and their family AMR 19/001/2009 - UA 5/09 José Luís da Silva, his wife Severina dos Santos Silva and their 25-year-old daughter Edisandra, have received death threats in relation to a court case brought against four men they allege were involved in (...)

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Omar Ahmed Khadr (m), Canadian national, aged 22 -

AMR 51/001/2009 - UA 4/09 Omar Khadr is facing unfair trial by military commission in the US Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, for crimes he is alleged to have committed when he was 15 years old. The trial is due to begin on 26 January, six days after the inauguration of the new US (...)

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Shaheed ‘Abdulhussain ‘Abbas ‘Amouri (m), Iranian national, aged 37 ... -

... Mohammed ‘Ali ‘Abdulzahra Hamad ‘Amouri (m), Iranian national, aged 30; Naji ‘Aboud ‘Obidawi (m), Iranian national MDE 14/001/2009 - UA 3/09 Shaheed ‘Abdulhussain ‘Abbas ‘Amouri, Mohammed ‘Ali ‘Abdulzahra Hamad ‘Amouri and (...)

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Jestina Mukoko (f), director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) ... -

... New name: Broderick Takawira (m) provincial coordinator of ZPP and about 30 others AFR 46/006/ 2009 - Further Information on UA 333/08 (AFR 46/039/2008, 5 December 2008) Jestina Mukoko, the director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP), is being held at Chikurubi Maximum Security Prison in (...)

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Murad Gasayev (m), Russian national -

EUR 41/002/2008 - Further Information on UA 338/08 (EUR 41/023/2008, 11 December 2008) Murad Gasayev was extradited from Spain to the Russian Federation on 31 December, where he has been taken into custody and is at risk of torture. He is now the subject of UA 1/09 (EUR 46/001/2009, 6 January (...)

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Birtukan Mideksa (f), age 34, leader of opposition Unity for Democracy and Justice Party -

AFR 25/003/2009 - UA 2/09 Opposition party leader Birtukan Mideksa was arrested on 28 December and has been held without charge since then, in solitary confinement. She has been on a hunger strike, drinking liquids only, in protest at her detention. Her immediate family have been allowed to (...)

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Murad Akhmedovich Gasaev (m), aged 34 -

EUR 46/001/2009 - UA 01/09 Ethnic Chechen Murad Akhmedovich Gasaev, who is a Russian citizen, was extradited to Russia by the Spanish authorities on 31 December. He is now in a detention facility in Moscow, but is soon to be transferred to a pre-trial detention centre in the North Caucasus (...)

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Dr Arash Alaei (m), doctor; Dr Kamiar Alaei (m), doctor, brother of Arash Alaei -

MDE 13/181/2008 - Further Information on UA 216/08 (MDE 13/108/2008, 6 August 2008) Brothers Arash Alaei and Kamiar Alaei, both doctors specializing in the prevention and management of HIV and AIDS, have been charged with “cooperating” with an “enemy government”. The (...)

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Ahmed Zaid Salem Zuhair (m), Saudi Arabian national, aged 44 -

AMR 51/156/2008 - UA 350/08 Guantánamo detainee Ahmed Zuhair began a hunger-strike in mid-2005, and has been force-fed since August 2005. According to his lawyer, his health has deteriorated significantly since August 2008, and is now a cause for serious concern. Ahmed Zuhair's lawyer met (...)

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Nami Jhaba (m), aged 41, Tibetan -

ASA 17/114/2008 - UA 347/08 Tibetan former monk Nami Jhaba was detained by police on 19 April, and has been held incommunicado since then. Police recently returned some of his possessions to his family, and he is therefore believed to be in danger of torture and other ill-treatment. On 7 (...)

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Mourad Trabelsi (m), aged 38, Tunisian national -

EUR 30/012/2008 - Further Information on UA 337/08 (EUR 30/011/2008, 10 December 2008) Mourad Trabelsi was forcibly returned to Tunisia on 13 December. So far neither his family nor lawyer has been informed of his whereabouts. Mourad Trabelsi was released from prison in the town of Pavia, (...)

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Update - 19/12/2008 -

Hu Jia has been awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought from the European Parliament. The assembly gave a one-minute standing ovation and listened to a video message from Hu's wife Zeng Jinyan, who thanked the European Parliament for its recognition of her 35-year-old husband. (...)

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Mohammad Sadiq Kabudvand (m), human rights defender, journalist -

MDE 13/179/2008 - Further Information on UA 171/07 (MDE 13/081/2007, 4 July 2007) and follow-up (MDE 13/091/2007, 19 July 2007; MDE 13/127/2007, 1 November 2007; MDE 13/071/2008, 21 May 2008 and MDE 13/086/2008, 25 June 2008) Mohammad Sadiq Kabudvand is believed to have suffered a heart attack (...)

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Amir Hussain (m), Bangladeshi national, aged about 35 ... -

...Dead: Haas Muhammad Muzamdar (m), Bangladeshi national, aged 26 MDE 23/052/2008 - UA 349/08 Amir Hussain, a Bangladeshi national detained in the al-Shumaisi deportation centre in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh, is believed to be denied access to medical care for a serious health (...)

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Update - 18/12/2008 -

We have received news from Alexander Ruppert's attorney: following jury selection and opening statements at the beginning of the civil trial on 9th December, the City of Chicago told the judge that it wanted to settle the case. No further details on the settlement have been made available, (...)

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Update - 18/12/2008 -

Muhammad Sami Al-Hashlamon, who has been in administrative detention since June 2006, was released on 17 December 2008 and is now reunited with his family in Hebron. His last administrative detention order was issued by the Israeli military on 20 October 2008 for two months (to expire on 19 (...)

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Jorge Martínez Guzmán (m), Pacho Viejo prison, Veracruz State -

AMR 41/066/2008 - UA 344/08 Jorge Martínez Guzmán, a detainee in the Pacho Viejo prison (Centro de Readaptacíon Social de Pacho Viejo), Veracruz State, was tortured by a group of unidentified men during the night of 25 November. Jorge Martínez Guzmán was blindfolded, tied up and handcuffed by (...)

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Farzad Kamangar (alias Siamand) (m), aged 32, teacher trade unionist ... -

...Ali Heydariyan (m); Farhad Vakili (m): members of Kurdish minority MDE 13/176/2008 - Further Information on UA 147/08 (MDE 13/075/2008, 30 May 2008) and follow-up (MDE 13/094/2008, 11 July 2008) On 24 November, prison guards entered Farzad Kamangar's cell in Section 209 of Tehran's Evin (...)

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Javier Torres Cruz (m), aged 28 -

AMR 41/067/2008 - Further Information on UA 336/08 (AMR 41/065/2008, 10 December 2008) Javier Torres Cruz was released on 13 December, after being abducted on 3 December. On his return, he had a number of bruises, particularly on his hands, and complained of strong abdominal pains. His family (...)

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Valeri Pal (m), aged 60 -

EUR 61/007/2008 - Further Information on UA 99/08 (EUR 61/002/2008, 16 April 2008) and follow-ups (EUR 61/003/2008, 4 June 2008; EUR 61/006/2008, 13 October 2008) Valeri Pal was released on 7 December from the prison in Mary city. He was one of 390 prisoners who were pardoned under a (...)

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Zurab Datkhuevich Ilaev (m); Alvi Ilaev (m); Azhdan Ilaev (m) -

EUR 46/032/2008 - Further Information on UA 335/08 (EUR 46/030/2008, 9 December 2008) The body of Zurab Ilaev was found on 10 December and taken to the morgue in the Chechen capital, Grozny. He had been suffocated, and there were marks on his body that might have been caused by torture and (...)

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Joseph Guyler Delva (m), journalist -

AMR 36/008/2008 - UA 345/08 Joseph Guyler Delva has been receiving death threats which he believes to be related to both his involvement in an investigation into the murder of Haitian journalist Jean Dominique and his reporting on the controversial election of a former Haitian senator. Amnesty (...)

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Jurit bin Abdullah (m); Ona Denis (m) -

ASA 21/022/2008 - UA 346/08 The two men named above are in imminent danger of execution. The Deputy Attorney for General Crimes told the Indonesian news agency Antara on 5 December that the executions would be carried out before the end of the year. According to Antara, both men have exhausted (...)

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At least 104 Eritrean asylum-seekers -

MDE 12/025/2008 - UA 348/08 A group of some 104 Eritrean asylum-seekers held in a detention facility in Nakhl, northern Sinai, could be forcibly returned to Eritrea in the next few days. The group, which is believed to comprise 78 men, 23 women, including one pregnant woman, and three (...)

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Maqsoud Ahdi (m); Mansour Aminian (m) ... -

... Dariush Hatemi (m), aged 29; Aydin Khaje'i (m), aged 23; Amir Mardani (m); Majid Makuyi (m); Sejjad Radmehr (m); Feraz Zahtab (m), aged 23, student activists for the cultural rights of Iranian Azerbaijanis MDE 13/177/2008 - Further Information on UA 271/08 (MDE 13/142/2008, 23 September (...)

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Hossein Derakhshan (m), blogger, dual Iranian-Canadian national -

MDE 13/178/2008 - UA 343/08 Blogger Hossein Derakhshan was arrested at his family home in Tehran on 1 November. Denied access to his family and to legal representation, no one knows where Hossein Derakhshan is held. Although he has been allowed to make four telephone calls to his home, each (...)

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Julio Mecheche Manyoma (m); Aquileito Mecheche Barahona (m) ... -

...Milciades Chamorro Marmolejo (m); Herminio Lana Guaseruca (m); Diomedes Rubiano (m); Eleciana Chajito (f); Iris Nayibi Cabrera (f); Morelia Marmolejo (f). Members of the Embera Indigenous community of the Bajo Atrato Camizba Indigenous reservation in the municipality of Riosucio, Chocó (...)

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Negin Sheikholeslami, (f) Human rights defender and journalist, aged 34 -

MDE 13/175/2008 - Further Information on UA 280/08 (MDE 13/148/2008, 14 October 2008) Negin Sheikholeslami was released from Section 209 of Evin Prison in the capital, Tehran, on bail of 500,000,000 rials, equivalent to almost US$50,000, on 23 November. During her detention, Negin (...)

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Majeed Ibrahim Hamo (m), aged 26; Saeed Khalil (m), aged about 37 -

MDE 14/032/2008 - UA 341/08 Majeed Ibrahim Hamo and Saeed Khalil are at risk of imminent execution. The men's death sentences are now with Mas'ud Barzani, the president of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) and could be ratified and implemented at any time In May 2007, a criminal (...)

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Zubair Isaevich Zubairaev (m), aged about 30 -

EUR 46/031/2008 - UA 342/08 Zubair Isaevich Zubairaev, a Chechen imprisoned in Volgograd, southern Russia, is believed to have been tortured. He has not received adequate medical care, even though he is in a prison hospital, and remains at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. In August (...)

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Javier Torres Cruz (m), aged 28 -

AMR 41/065/2008 - UA 336/08 Peasant farmer Javier Torres Cruz may have been subjected to enforced disappearance on 3 December. The authorities have denied knowledge of his whereabouts and there are concerns for his safety following earlier attempts to detain him which may be connected to his (...)

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Mourad Trabelsi (m), aged 38, Tunisian national -

EUR 30/011/2008 - UA 337/08 Mourad Trabelsi is at imminent risk of being forcibly returned to Tunisia, where he could be held in incommunicado detention, tortured and otherwise ill-treated. On 3 December, the Italian Minister of Interior told the Lower Chamber of the Italian parliament (...)

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Murad Gasayev (m), Russian national -

EUR 41/023/2008 - UA 338/08 The Spanish authorities are preparing to extradite ethnic Chechen Murad Gasayev to the Russian Federation, where he would be at risk of an unfair trial, torture and other ill-treatment. If the extradition goes ahead, it will violate Spain's obligations under (...)

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Sa’dun Sheikhu (m), Mohammad Sai’d ‘Omar (m): Kurdish political activists -

MDE 24/036/2008 - UA 339/08 Kurdish political activists Sa'dun Sheikhu and Mohammad Sai'd ‘Omar were arrested on 25 October and have since been held incommunicado. They are in serious danger of torture. Amnesty International believes they may be prisoners of conscience, detained solely (...)

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Reza Alinejad (m), aged 23 -

MDE 13/173/2008 - Further Information on UA 63/07 (MDE 13/029/2007, 12 March 2007) and follow-up (MDE 13/169/2008, 20 November 2008) Juvenile offender, Reza Alinejad was released on 3 December from Adelabad prison, in Shiraz. The family of the victim waived their right to demand Reza (...)

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Zurab Datkhuevich Ilaev (m), aged about 36 ... -

...Died: Alvi Ilaev (m) , Azhdan Ilaev (m) EUR 46/030/2008 - UA 335/08 Zurab Datkhuevich Ilaev disappeared on 1 December and may be held at a law enforcement base near the village of Dolinski. Concerns for his safety are heightened by the fact that his two brothers were allegedly killed after (...)

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Update - 05/12/2008 -

Update from the Nigeria team on mission: Visit to Owerri, Imo state Governor Ohakim: Amnesty International attempted to meet with Governor Ohakim when we visited Owerri in October, however we were unsuccessful. We were able to meet with the Attorney General and the chief of staff. Local (...)

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Update - 05/12/2008 -

On 28 November 2008, Zaw Htet Ko Ko, along with 13 other members of the 88 Generation Students group, was sentenced to six years' imprisonment on three counts of inciting offences against public tranquillity. This latest ruling brings his total jail term to 11 (...)

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Update - 05/12/2008 -

Muhammad Hashlamon's current two-month administrative detention order, issued by the Israeli military on 20 October, is due to expire on 19 December. The military judge at the judicial review of this order which took place the end of October ordered that Muhammad Hashlamon should be (...)

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Drago Hedl (m), journalist -

EUR 64/007/2008 - Further Information on UA 329/08 (EUR 64/006/2008, 28 November 2008) On 4 December, police investigations identified a man who is believed to be responsible for the latest death threats against Croatian journalist Drago Hedl. The case was sent to the County Prosecutor in (...)

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Inhabitants of Santo Domingo Ixcatlán ... -

...opposing the sale of communal lands Workers for human rights organisation CEDHAPI AMR 41/064/2008 - Further Information on UA 129/08 (AMR 41/023/2008, 16 May 2008) Inhabitants of town Santo Domingo Ixcatlán, in Oaxaca state, are apparently under siege from a group of armed men working for (...)

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Abdushukur Qurban (m) aged 32 -

ASA 17/111/2008 - UA 331/08 Abdushukur Qurban, an ethnic Uighur and father of three, was detained on 21 November in Penjim Township, Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR). In violation of the 24-hour limit of family notification required by the Criminal Procedure Law, the police notified (...)

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Ji Sizun (m) aged 59 -

ASA 17/112/2008 - UA 332/08 Prisoner of conscience Ji Sizun, from Fujian Province, was detained on 11 August in Beijing when he went to a police station to hand in an application to hold a demonstration in one of the designated protest zones for the Beijing Olympics. Amnesty International (...)

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Jestina Mukoko (f) director of the Zimbabwe Peace Project (ZPP) -

AFR 46/039/2008 - UA 333/08 Human rights activist Jestina Mukoko was forcibly taken from her home by a group of at least 12 armed plain-clothes men who identified themselves as policemen on 3 December. More than 48 hours after her abduction her whereabouts remain unknown. Lawyers have checked (...)

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Bahjat Khalid Mas’ud (m) aged 35, Syrian national ... -

...At least 37 other Syrian nationals MDE 23/051/2008 - UA 334/08 Bahjat Khalid Mas'ud, a father of five, is one of at least 38 Syrian nationals feared to be at imminent risk of execution. They were all sentenced to death – in Bahjat Khalid Mas'ud's case, over six years ago – on (...)

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Darold J. Stenson (m), white, aged 56 -

AMR 51/152/2008 - Further information on UA 323/08 (AMR 51/144/2008, 24 November 2008) Darold Stenson has received a stay of execution. He was due to be executed in Washington State on 3 December. He has spent 14 years on death row for two murders committed in 1993 in Clallam County, in the (...)

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Máximo Mojica Delgado (m) ... -

...María de los Ángeles Hernández Flores (f), his wife, Santiago Nazario Lezma (m) AMR 41/063/2008 - UA 330/08 The three people named above, who live in Teloloapan municipality, Guerrero state, have been arbitrarily arrested and are believed to have been beaten in custody. They are being held (...)

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Yang Jia (m) aged 28 -

ASA 17/110/2008 - Further Information on UA 246/08 (ASA 17/098/2008, 5 September 2008) and follow up (ASA 17/102/2008) Yang Jia was executed on 26 November after the Supreme People's Court approved his sentence on 21 November. According to news reports, his family had been told on the (...)

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'Ali Hassan al-Majid (m), Sultan Hashim Ahmad al-Ta’I (m) ... -

...Hussain Rashid al-Tikriti (m). New name: ‘Abdul Ghani ‘Abdul Ghafour (m) MDE 14/030/2008 - Further information on UA 160/07 (MDE 14/032/2007, 25 June 2007) and follow-ups (MDE 14/040/2007, 05 September 2007; MDE 14/045/2007, 16 October 2007; MDE 14/049/2007, 5 December 2007; MDE (...)

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Xu Na (f) aged 41, artist -

ASA 17/107/2008 - UA 327/08 Falun Gong practitioner Xu Na is at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. She was sentenced to three years in prison on 25 November for ‘crimes' related to her membership of an outlawed spiritual movement which has been targeted by the Chinese authorities. (...)

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Dr Mehdi Zakerian (m), academic -

MDE 13/172/2008 - Further Information on UA 264/08 (MDE 13/140/2008, 19 September 2008) Dr Mehdi Zakerian was released around 20 October 2008. He has since returned to his post as an assistant professor at Islamic Azad University in Tehran, from which he was dismissed in September 2007, (...)

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Hamza Hassan Abu Habel (m), aged 1 year 2 months ... -

...Action no longer required: Ahmed Nahid Mohsin (m), aged 1 year 5 months, Nour Mohammed al-Jarou (f), aged 5 months, Mohammed Odeh Thabet (m), aged 17 years, Yousef Rami Abu Latifa (m), aged 3 years 5 months MDE 15/047/2008 - Further information on UA 284/08 (MDE 15/041/08, 16 October 2008) (...)

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Wo Weihan (m) aged 59 -

ASA 17/109/2008 - Further Information on UA 322/08 (ASA 17/105/2008, 21 November 2008) and follow-up (ASA 17/106/2008, 25 November 2008) Wo Weihan was executed by shooting in Beijing on the morning of 28 November. His family was allowed to meet with him at the Beijing No 2 Intermediate (...)

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Nabil Khlioui (m), aged 49, telecommunications worker -

MDE 24/035/2008 - UA 328/08 Nabil Khlioui has been held incommunicado at an unknown location since 13 August. The authorities have not disclosed where he is held, why he was arrested or whether he will be charged and tried. Nabil Khlioui's detention amounts to an enforced disappearance under (...)

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Rang Lai Mro (m), Indigenous community leader -

ASA 13/010/2008 - Further Information on UA 276/08 (ASA 12/003/2008, 26 September 2008) The authorities responsible for the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) have written to Amnesty International members, saying that they have noted the organization's concerns about Rang Lai Mro's health, (...)

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Ishaq Mohammed Sanousi (m), aged 72 ... -

...Abdel Hay Omar (m), Mustafa Adam (m), Mohammed Birgid (m), Hassan Adam Fadel (m), Adam Ibrahim (m), Jamaleddin Isa (m),Abdel Magid Ali Abdel Magid (m), Sabir Hassan (m).Sentence commuted: Al Taieb Adelaziz Ishag (m), aged 17 AFR 54/043/2008 - Further Information on UA 302/07 (AFR (...)

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Osman Hummaida (m), aged 45, human rights defender ... -

...Abdel Monim Elgak (m), aged 34, human rights defender AFR 54/045/2008 - Further Information on UA 325/08 (AFR 54/044/2008, 26 November 2008) At half past midnight on the morning of 28 November, Osman Hummaida was released after being detained incommunicado for three days by the National (...)

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Drago Hedl (m), journalist -

EUR 64/006/2008 - UA 329/08 Journalist Drago Hedl has received a series of death threats, most recently on 27 November. The threats are believed to be connected to his investigative reports linking a high-level Croatian politician to the killing of Croatian Serbs in the town of Osijek during (...)

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Osman Hummaida (m), aged 45, human rights defender ... -

... Abdel Monim Elgak (m), aged 34, human rights defender AFR 54/044/2008 - UA 325/08 Human rights defenders Osman Hummaida and Abdel Monim Elgak are being held by the National Security and Intelligence Services (NISS) in the capital Khartoum. Amnesty International fears for their safety and (...)

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‘Abdullah Fandi al-Shammari (m) -

MDE 23/048/2008 - UA 324/08 Amnesty International has received information that ‘Abdullah Fandi al-Shammari is due to be executed within the next 20 days. According to an appeal issued by his family, his execution was scheduled for around 15 November but, following an intervention by (...)

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Ismael Tae (m), aged 22 ... -

...Amisi Manak (m), aged 23 , Ruslan Tuyong (m), aged 23 ,Waerosalee Latae (m), aged 23 , Romlee Latae (m), aged 21 ASA 39/009/2008 - Further Information on UA 230/08 (ASA 39/006/2008, 18 August 2008) Five Muslim university students who were detained by a military unit in southern Thailand on (...)

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Mohamed Kohail (m), aged 23, Canadian national ... -

...Mehanna Sa'd (m), aged 22, Jordanian national , Sultan Kohail (m), aged 17, Canadian national MDE 23/049/2008 - Further Information on UA 116/07 (MDE 23/019/2007, 17 May 2007) and follow-ups (MDE 23/030/2007, 2 August 2007; MDE 23/016/2008, 31 March 2008; MDE 23/012/2008, 8 April 2008; MDE (...)

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Basel Ghalyoun (m), aged 27 -

MDE 24/034/2008 - UA 326/08 Basel Ghalyoun has been held in incommunicado detention by the State Security Branch in the capital Damascus since 22 July 2008. Amnesty International is concerned that he is at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. He was forcibly returned to Syria from Spain on (...)

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Update - 25/11/2008 -

On 9 November, following a request made by the General Prosecutor, the Cassation Court refuted its earlier decision taken on 2 November to immediately release Michel Kilo and Mahmoud ‘Issa. According to Syrian law, prisoners are entitled to apply for an amnesty after completing (...)

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Update - 25/11/2008 -

Htay Kywe and Mie Mie have been sentenced to 65 years in prison. Zaw Htet Ko Ko has been sentenced to five years for illegal association, as it is his first offense. Htay Kywe and Mie Mie have been transferred to remote prisons.

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Alireza (Elirza) Serrafi (m), civil engineer, journalist and cultural activist ... -

...Hassan (Hesen) Rashidi (m), engineer, writer and lecturer, Sa'id (Seid) Mohammadi (Mehemmedi) Mughanli (m), poet and journalist, Mehdi Na'imi (Neimi) (m), poet and university lecturer MDE 13/171/2008 - Further Information on 269/08 (MDE 13/141/2008, 22 September 2008) and follow-up (MDE (...)

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Wo Weihan (m) aged 59 -

ASA 17/106/2008 - Further Information on UA 322/08 (ASA 17/105/2008, 21 November 2008) Wo Weihan's family has received an oral confirmation that the Supreme People's Court (SPC) has approved his death sentence. Wo Weihan's family is scheduled to meet with him on the morning of 27 November at (...)

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Darold J. Stenson (m), white, aged 55 -

AMR 51/144/2008 - UA 323/08 Darold Stenson is scheduled to be executed in Washington State on 3 December. He has spent 14 years on death row for two murders committed in 1993. In the early hours of 25 March 1993, Darold Stenson telephoned the police from his home at Dakota Farms in Clallam (...)

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Sheikh Mastan (alias Mohammed Salim) (m), aged 30, married with one child ; Hamza Abu Bakir (m), aged 47 ... -

... married with four children MDE 23/047/2008 - Further Information on UA 309/07 (MDE 23/039/2007, 16 November 2007) and follow-ups (MDE 23/005/2008, 07 February 2008 and MDE 23/024/2008, 11 June 2008) - Imminent execution Indian nationals Sheikh Mastan and Hamza Abu Bakir have exhausted all (...)

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Robert Jean Hudson (m), black, aged 45 -

AMR 51/143/2008 - Further information on UA 307/08 (AMR 51/133/2008, 5 November 2008) – Death penalty Robert Hudson was executed in Texas on 20 November. He was sentenced to death in 2000 for the murder of his former girlfriend Edith Kendrick. There have been 36 executions in the USA in (...)

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Marco Allen Chapman (m), white, aged 37 -

AMR 51/142/2008 - Further information on UA 310/08 (AMR 51/135/2008, 11 November 2008) Marco Chapman was executed in Kentucky on 21 November. He was sentenced to death in December 2004 for the murder of two children, aged six and seven, in 2002. He refused to appeal against his death sentence. (...)

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Maqsoud Ahdi (m), Mansour Aminian (m), Dariush Hatemi (m), 29 ... -

...Aydin Khaje'i (m), 23, Amir Mardani (m), Majid Makuyi (m), Sejjad Radmehr (m), Feraz Zahtab (m), 23: student activists for the cultural rights of Iranian Azerbaijanis MDE 13/170/08 - Further Information on 271/08 (MDE 13/142/2008, 23 September 2008) All the student activists named above, (...)

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Dr Vilma Nuñez (f) ... -

...President of the Nicaraguan Human Rights Centre (Centro Nicaragüense de Derechos Humanos CENIDH). Other members of CENIDH AMR 43/004/08 - UA 320/08 Dr Vilma Nuñez, president of the prominent Nicaraguan human rights organization, the Nicaraguan Human Rights Centre (Centro Nicaragüense de (...)

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Armando Rodriguez’s family ... -

...Journalists with “El diario de Juárez”, Ciudad Juárez local newspaper . Other journalists with local media AMR 41/061/2008 - UA 321/08 Journalists working with daily newspaper “El Diario de Juárez” and other media workers from Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua state, are in (...)

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Wo Weihan (m) aged 59 -

ASA 17/105/2008 - UA 322/08 Medical scientist Wo Weihan may be at imminent risk of execution. On 18 November the Beijing Municipal Higher People's Court told his family to apply for visitation within seven days after being refused visitation for nearly four years. This sudden move suggests (...)

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Update - 20/11/2008 -

Justine is still in Goma and the research team are in daily contact with her. They will be visiting her NGO when they go on mission this month. Some of her NGO contacts have been displaced as a result of the fighting in the region and are in camps around Goma. The research team will be visiting (...)

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Reza Alinejad (m) aged 23 -

MDE 13/169/08 - Further Information on 63/07 (MDE 13/029/2007, 12 March 2007) Juvenile offender, Reza Alinejad is at imminent risk of execution for a crime he committed at the age of 17. He has been granted a month to obtain the required diyeh (financial compensation) to be paid to the (...)

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James Balao (m), aged 47, Indigenous rights activist -

ASA 35/010/2008 - Further Information on UA 274/08 (ASA 35/007/2008, 25 September 2008) and follow-up (ASA 35/009/2008, 6 November 2008) Five legislators have asked the Philippine House of Representatives to conduct an investigation into the case of missing Indigenous rights activist James (...)

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Alexis Sinduhije (m) -

AFR 16/007/2008 - UA 318/08 Alexis Sinduhije, the President of the Movement for Security and Democracy (Mouvement pour la Sécurité et la Démocratie, MSD), a political opposition group, was arrested on 3 November during a MSD party meeting. Thirty-six others were also arrested, but have since (...)

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300 families from Anlong Krom village, Kampot Province -

ASA 23/043/2008 - UA 319/08 Around 100 soldiers, police, military police and Forestry Administration officials forcibly evicted around 300 families in Ta Ken commune, Chhuk District in the province of Kampot on 17 and 18 November. The mixed force, the largest group of whom belonged to Brigade (...)

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Ebrahim Mehrnahad (or Mehrnehad) (m), aged 16 ... -

...Fazlorahman Jahras (m), aged about 16, Abdollah Salarzahi, (m), leading member, Voice of Justice Young People's Society (VJYPS) , Asadollah Shahbaksh, (m) student, VJYPS member MDE 13/168/2008 - Further Information on UA 68/08 (MDE 13/047/2008, 12 March 2008) Ebrahim Mehrnehad, a member of (...)

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Father Alejandro Solalinde Guerra (m), Catholic priest and migrants' rights worker ... -

...Catholic priest and migrants' rights worker .Migrants who witnessed the 5 November kidnapping in Las Anonas, Oaxaca state AMR 41/060/2008 - UA 317/08 A group of 11 migrants who witnessed an armed gang kidnapping 12 women migrants in Las Anonas, Oaxaca state, have filed a criminal (...)

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Patricia Orozco (f), coordinator of the 28 September Campaign ... -

... for the Decriminalization of Abortion in Latin America and the Caribbean (Campaña 28 de Septiembre por la Despenalización del Aborto en América Latina y el Caribe) and one of the leaders of the Women's Autonomous Movement (Movimiento Autónomo de Mujeres) AMR 43/003/2008 - UA 316/08 (...)

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Bekele Jirata (m), General Secretary of the Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM) party ... -

...Asefa Tefera Dibaba (m), university lecturer at Addis Ababa University, Bekele Negeri (m), a businessman, Dejene Borena (m), Fiqadu Jalqaba (m), college student, Eshetu Kitil (m), owner of the Hawi Hotel, Desta Kitili (m), his brother, Kebede Borena (m), assistant manager of the Hilton Hotel (...)

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Raúl Hernández (m), Manuel Cruz (m), Orlando Manzanarez (m) ... -

...Natalio Ortega (m), Romualdo Santiago (m) : members of Me' phaa Indigenous People's Organization (OPIM). Ten members of OPIM AMR 41/059/2008 - UA 314/08 On 17 April, five members of Me' phaa Indigenous People's Organization (OPIM) were detained and charged with the murder of Alejandro (...)

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Abbas Lisani (or Leysani) (m), activist -

MDE 13/167/2008 - Further Information on UA 74/08 (MDE 13/050/2008, 17 March 2008) Prisoner of conscience, Abbas Lisani, was released from Yazd Prison in central Iran, on 29 October 2008 after serving two consecutive sentences totalling 30 months' imprisonment. A prominent activist for the (...)

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Terhas Mlash Abraha (f), aged 40 -

EUR 42/007/2008 - Further Information on UA 304/08 (EUR 42/006/2008, 31 October 2008) On 31 October, a representative of the United Nations' Committee Against Torture (CAT) requested that Sweden does not return Terhas Mlash Abraha to Eritrea whilst the CAT is considering her case. She was (...)

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Akhtar Mohammed Mustafa (f), Melko ‘Abbas Mohammed (m) -

MDE 14/028/2008 - UA 313/08 Akhtar Mohammed Mustafa and her son Melko ‘Abbas Mohammed are being detained by the Asayish Gishti (General Security Directorate) in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. Amnesty International fears that they may be subjected to torture or ill-treatment. On 6 (...)

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Mahboubeh Karami, (f) aged 40, journalist and women's rights defender -

MDE 13/166/2008 - Further Information on UA 169/08 (MDE 13/084/2008, 17 June 2008) and follow-up (MDE 13/119/2008, 19 August 2008 and MDE 13/128/2008, 29 August 2008) Mahboubeh Karami was acquitted by Branch 15 of the revolutionary Court in Tehran on 11 November. The court found that there was (...)

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17 Uighur detainees held at Guantánamo -

AMR 51/137/2008 - Further information on UA 278/08 (AMR 51/112/2008, 08 October 2008) Seventeen Uighurs remain in indefinite military detention in the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba more than a month after a federal judge ruled that their continued detention was unlawful and ordered (...)

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Update - 11/11/2008 -

Soldiarity addresses changed as the teenagers have been moved once again. Dmitriu Pavlovu Koloniya No. 6 poselok Beyuk-Shor gorod Baku Azerbaïdjan Ruslanu Bessonovu Koloniya No.13 Karadakhski rayon gorod Baku Azerbaïdjan Maksimu Genashilkinu Koloniya No.13 Karadakhski rayon (...)

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Abdirahman Mohamed Qani (m), tribal leader ... -

...Abdiaziz Mohamed Layli (m), Danish citizen; Diriye Layli Siigaale (m); Nabadiid Askar (m); Shaafi dhala-hool (m); Cumar Madoobe (m); Ahmed Allow-xiir (m); Inqaas Karuur (m); Dhakoorr Luuntire Adan Geeddan (m); Abdullahi Ahmed Qormahaye (m). Three others AFR 25/011/2008 - Further Information (...)

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Esha Momeni, 28 (f), student -

MDE 13/165/08 - Further Information on 289/08 (MDE 13/155/2008, 21 October 2008) Esha Momeni was released from Tehran's Evin Prison on 10 November. Her bail of 2000 million rials (approximately US$ 200,000) was met by the deeds to her family's apartment. According to the website (...)

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Marco Allen Chapman (m), white, aged 37 -

AMR 51/135/2008 - UA 310/08 Marco Chapman is scheduled to be executed in Kentucky on 21 November. He was sentenced to death in December 2004 for the murder of two children, aged six and seven, in 2002. He is not appealing his death sentence. This would be the first execution in Kentucky for (...)

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Riyadh Jasim Mohammed (m) ... -

...Mohammed Sultan (m); ‘Omar Rahmatullah (m); Yusef Jadu' (m) MDE 14/027/2008 - UA 311/08 Riyadh Jasim Mohammed, Mohammed Sultan, ‘Omar Rahmatullah and Yusef Jadu' were sentenced to death by a criminal court in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on 6 November. The four men were (...)

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Sulieman al-Rushudi, retired judge ... -

...Dr Saud al-Hashimi, medical doctor, Al-Sharif Saif Al-Ghalib, Dr Musa al-Qirni, university professor, Dr ‘Abdel Rahman al-Shumayri, university professor, Fahd al-Qirshi, ‘Abdel Rahman Khan, ‘Abdelaziz al-Khariji, Dr Matrouk al-Faleh, university professor and human rights (...)

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Emadeddin Baghi (m) aged 46, human rights defender -

MDE 13/164/2008 - Further Information on UA 130/08 (MDE 13/069/2008, 16 May 2008) and follow-up (MDE 13/131/2008, 2 September 2008) Journalist and human rights defender, Emadeddin Baghi, was released on 5 October 2008, three days before completing the one year sentence he was serving. He had (...)

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Marisela Ortíz Rivera (f), human rights defender ... -

...Norma Andrade (f), human rights defender; María Luisa García Andrade (f), human rights defender; Other members of Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa (Our Daughters Return Home) AMR 41/058/2008 - Further Information on UA 167/07 (AMR 41/028/2007, 28 June 2007) and follow-up (AMR 41/026/2008, (...)

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Ahmed Nahid Mohsin (m), aged 1 year 5 months ... -

...Hamza Hassan Abu Habel (m), aged 1 year 2 months; New names: Mohammed Odeh Thabet (m), aged 17 years ; Yousef Rami Abu Latifa (m), aged 3 Years 5 months ; Nour Mohammed al-Jarou (m), aged 5 months .Now receiving treatment outside Gaza: Soheb Wael Alqasas (m), aged 5 years; Sami Atwa Abu (...)

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Jenni Williams (f); Magodonga Mahlangu (f) -

AFR 46/034/2008 - Further Information on UA 290/08, (AFR 46/029/2008, 22 October 2008) On 5 November 2008, the High Court of Zimbabwe granted Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) leaders Jenni Williams and Magodonga Mahlangu bail following their arrest on 16 October. They were released the following (...)

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Jesús Emilio Tuberquia (m), leader and legal representative of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó -

... Members of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó AMR 23/042/2008 - UA 308/08 Paramilitaries have attempted to kill one of the leaders of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, in the north-western department of Antioquia. Paramilitaries operating in the area have also (...)

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Robert Jean Hudson (m), black, aged 45 -

AMR 51/133/2008 - UA 307/08 Robert Hudson is scheduled to be executed in Texas on 20 November. He was sentenced to death in 2000 for the murder of his former girlfriend Edith Kendrick. According to the state's evidence at trial, Robert Hudson telephoned Edith Kendrick at her apartment in (...)

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James Balao (m), aged 47, Indigenous rights activist -

ASA 35/009/2008 - Further Information on UA 274/08 (ASA 35/007/2008, 25 September 2008) According to the Indigenous people's organization, Cordillera People's Alliance (CPA), missing activist James Balao is being detained by state security forces at an unknown location, and may be at (...)

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‘Ali Hassan ‘Issa al-Buri, aged about 36 (m) ... -

...Qassim Bin Rida Bin Sulayman al Mahdi, aged about 24 (m); Khalid Bin Muhammad ‘Issa al-Qadihi, aged about 27 (m)] : Saudi Arabian nationals MDE 23/044/2008 - Further Information on UA 219/08 (MDE 23/035/2008, 08 August 2008) The three men mentioned above have exhausted all their (...)

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Miguel Arturo Albizures Pedrosa (m) ... -

...Vice-President And cameraman of the human rights media organization COMMUNICARTE (Asociación COMUNICARTE); His family and other members of COMUNICARTE; Members of No'j student organization (Comunidad Estudinatil No'j) AMR 34/023/2008 - UA 309/08 Human rights activist Miguel Arturo (...)

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Katia Camargo (f); Her two children, aged 11 and 15 -

AMR 19/015/2008 - UA 306/08 Investigative journalist Luiz Carlos Barbon, who had reported on official corruption, was murdered in May 2007. Local military police officers have been arrested, and are awaiting trial for his murder. His wife, Katia Camargo, is being threatened by people linked to (...)

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Chen Zhenping (f), Falun Gong practitioner -

ASA 17/103/2008 - UA 305/08 Falun Gong practitioner Chen Zhenping was arrested without a warrant on 9 July at her home in the city of Zhengzhou, Henan province. Her family have not been allowed to visit her, and it is unclear where she is now held. She is in grave danger of torture. She was (...)

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Shahrbano Nedam (f), aged 50 ... -

... Tayebeh Hojjati (f) ; Akram (f), aged 35 ; Soheila Ghadiri (f), aged 28 ; Zahra (f), aged 30 MDE 13/162/2008 - Further Information on UA 59/08 (MDE 13/041/2008, 3 March 2008) Soheila Ghadiri's death sentence was quashed in October. She had been sentenced to death for the murder of (...)

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Population of Kandhamal district, Orissa state -

ASA 20/026/2008 - Further information on UA 236/08 (ASA 20/018/2008, 27 August 2008) Violence against the Christian minority in Kandhamal district, Orissa, subsided during October etc, and the district is now relatively calm. Amnesty International is continuing to monitor the situation, and (...)

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Gregory Edward Wright (m), white, aged 42 -

AMR 51/130/2008 - Further information on UA 291/08 (AMR 51/120/2008, 22 October 2008) Gregory Wright was executed in Texas on 30 October. He had been sentenced to death in December 1997 for the murder of Donna Vick, who was stabbed to death in her home near Dallas nine months earlier. Gregory (...)

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Update - 04/11/2008 -

We have received reports that on 2 November, Mansour Ossanlu was due to go for a hospital checkup, but refused to go when he found out he was being taken to Farabi hospital in Tehran, not Labafinejad hospital, where his wife works. Prison guards beat him, and returned him to prison. He was told (...)

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45 residents, including 30 children, of Umm al-Kheir village -

MDE 15/043/2008 - UA 303/08 The Israeli army demolished six homes and other structures on 29 October, leaving 45 Palestinians homeless in the village of Umm al-Kheir, in the Southern Hebron Hills region of the occupied West Bank. The demolished properties were home to brothers Ali and Salem (...)

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Update - 31/10/2008 -

Mehmet Desde who served a 17 month prison term in three different prison, was released from prison on 6 October 2008. Amnesty International campaigned for his release and for his detention conditions to improve, namely that he has association time with other prisoner apart from his cell mates (...)

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Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh (m), student and journalist -

ASA 11/013/2008 - Further Information on UA 39/08 (ASA 11/002/2008, 12 February 2008) and follow-up (ASA 11/012/2008,23 September 2008) The Appeal Court of Kabul overturned student journalist Sayed Perwiz Kambaksh's death sentence on 21 October, but sentenced him to 20 years' (...)

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Zulfiqar Ali (m), aged 38 -

ASA 33/025/2008 - UA 302/08 Zulfiqar Ali was scheduled to be executed on 22 October, but his sentence was not carried out, for reasons not known to Amnesty International. He could be hanged at any time. Zulfiqar Ali was arrested on 14 April 1998 on a charge of murder. Since then, he has been (...)

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Terhas Mlash Abraha (f), aged 40 -

EUR 42/006/2008 - UA 304/08 The Swedish authorities are preparing to forcibly return asylum-seeker Terhas Mlash Abraha to Eritrea, where she would be at risk of arbitrary detention and torture because she evaded compulsory military service; and also for seeking asylum abroad, which the (...)

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Jamila Nabgan (f), aged 43, member of Arab minority in Iran -

MDE 13/160/2008 - Further Information on UA 286/08 (MDE 13/152/2008, 20 October 2008) Jamila Nabgan, sister of a prominent member of an outlawed Arab political party, Habib Nabgan, was released on bail on 24 October, four days after she was arrested. She now has to report every morning to the (...)

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Matthew Lowell (m) conscientious objector -

AMR 20/010/ 2008 - Further Information on UA 298/08 (AMR 20/009/ 2008, 24 October 2008) Matthew Lowell has been allowed to stay in Canada until the country's Federal Court decides whether or not to review his case. He had been due to be deported to the USA on 28 October. He fled to Canada in (...)

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Carlos Solís Reina (m), journalist ; Luis Alberto Salas Barajas (m) -

AMR 41/055/2008 - Further Information on UA 268/08 (AMR 41/049/2008, 19 September 2008) Local journalist, Carlos Solís Reina and Luis Alberto Salas Barajas have been transferred to a high security federal prison in Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, and charged with possession of fire arms and (...)

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Ismail Lutef Huraish (m), aged 49 ; Ali Mussara'a Muhammad Huraish (m), aged 39, his cousin -

MDE 31/011/2008 - Further Information on UA 292/08 (MDE 31/009/2008, 22 October 2008) Ismail Lutef Huraish and his cousin Ali Mussara'a Muhammad Huraish were executed this morning. They had exhausted all their appeal stages, and their death sentences had been ratified by the President. Ismail (...)

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Mohamed Kohail (m), aged 23, Canadian national ... -

... Mehanna Sa'd (m), aged 22, Jordanian national ; Sultan Kohail (m), aged 17, Canadian national MDE 23/043/2008 - Further Information on UA 116/07 (MDE 23/019/2007, 17 May 2007) and follow-ups (MDE 23/030/2007, 2 August 2007; MDE 23/016/2008, 31 March 2008; MDE 23/012/2008, 8 April 2008; MDE (...)

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Lorna Redell Jackson García, President of trade union SITRAFL ... -

... Juana Leticia Maldonaldo Gutíerrez, SITRAFL Secretary ; the four other members of the SITRAFL Executive Committee AMR 37/005/2008 - UA 301/08 Lorna Redell Jackson García and Juana Leticia Maldonaldo Gutíerrez have been shot at and threatened with death, apparently in connection with their (...)

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Update - 28/10/08 -

Amnesty International has received a response from the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights about Nathum's case, saying they had investigated the case but did not find out any information. Amnesty International has responded by asking the Iraqi authorities for details of the investigation they (...)

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Members of the Afro-descendant community in Curvaradó, Chocó Department ... -

... Members of the Inter-Church Justice and Peace Commission, Comisión Intereclesial Justicia y Paz and other organizations living with the community in the Curvaradó/Jiguamiandó region of Chocó Department. Killed: Walberto Hoyos Rivas (m) a leader of the Afro-descendant community in Curvaradó (...)

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Troy Anthony Davis (m), black, aged 40 -

AMR 51/121/2008 - Further information on UA 283/08 (AMR 51/116/2008, 16 October 2008) On 24 October, the US Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit granted Troy Davis a provisional stay of execution. He had been scheduled to be put to death on 27 October. He has been on death row for 17 years (...)

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David Boniface (m), aged 27 . His family -

AMR 36/005/2008 - UA 300/08 David Boniface, a school teacher and human rights activist in the community of Les Irois, Grande Anse department, has received death threats. Amnesty International is concerned for his safety and that of his family. David Boniface was threatened when he returned to (...)

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Norma Cruz (f), Director of Fundación Sobrevivientes (Survivors' Foundation) ... -

... her relatives and other members of staff AMR 34/022/2008 - UA 296/08 On 19 October at around 12pm a relative of Norma Cruz (whose name is withheld for safety reasons) was stopped by an unknown man driving a pick-up truck while walking home in Guatemala city. Norma Cruz's relative offered (...)

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Mise à jour du 17 octobre 2008 -

The Beijing Prison authority have informed Hu Jia's family that he was moved on 10 October 2008 from Chao Bai prison to the Beijing City Prison. Hu Jia's family welcomed this move as the prison is much closer to their home and would therefore be easier for them to visit. However, (...)

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Update - 27/10/2008 -

Email messages of support can be sent to iran_team@amnesty.org and they will be forwarded on to Ronak's lawyer who will print them out when he visits her.

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Update - 27/10/2008 -

Ronak and the other Kurdish prisoners ended their hunger strike on 11 October. During the hunger strike, Ronak was banned from telephone contacts or visits with her family or lawyer. Since the strike ended, she has been able to speak to her lawyer on the phone. He is worried about her mental (...)

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Rosival Ferreira da Silva (m), indigenous chief, known as "Babau" ... -

... Jurandi Jesus da Silva (m), his brother ; Glicéria da Silva (f), his sister ; Members of the Tupinambá indigenous community of Serra do Padeiro AMR 19/013/2008 - UA 295/08 Federal police officers attempting to detain indigenous chief Rosival Ferreira da Silva, known as ´"Babau," have used (...)

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Carmelino Navarro Jiménez (m), 9; Manuela Morales Gómez (f) ; Leonardo Navarro Jiménez (m) ; Juan Navarro Jiménez (m) -

AMR 41/054/2008 - UA 297/08 On 10 October, Carmelino Navarro Jiménez, a 9 year old boy, was attacked by a group of three men with weapons in the small town of Bayulubmax, in the municipality of Chilón, Chiapas State. Carmelino Navarro was walking with his sister-in-law, Manuela Morales Gómez, (...)

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Residents of the town of Rafael Lara Grajales, Puebla state -

AMR 41/053/2008 - UA 294/08 Residents of the town of Rafael Lara Grajales, in the central state of Puebla, gave assistance to a group of Central American migrants escaping from a gang holding them for ransom. The migrants told them that the gang were working with Rafael Lara Grajales municipal (...)

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Yang Jia (m), aged 28 -

ASA 17/102/2008 - Further Information on UA 246/08 (ASA 17/098/2008, 5 September 2008) Yang Jia's appeal against his death sentence was rejected by the Shanghai Higher People's Court on 20 October. The Supreme People's Court reviews all death sentences, and if it ratifies his (...)

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Matthew Lowell (m) 24, conscientious objector -

AMR 20/009/2008 - UA 298/08 On 28 October, the Canadian authorities are scheduled to deport US serviceman Matthew Lowell to the USA. He fled to Canada in October 2004 because of his conscientious objection to the war in Iraq and his objection to serving in the United States army. If deported (...)

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Zohreh Kabiri-niat (f) aged 27 ; Azar Kabiri-niat, known as Akram (f), her sister, aged 28 -

MDE 13/157/2008 - Further Information on UA 33/08 (MDE 13/033/2008, 6 February 2008) Zohreh Kabiri-niat and her sister Azar have had their sentence of death by stoning overturned by the Head of the Judiciary. Their case has been sent back for reinvestigation by a lower court. According to (...)

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Jenni Williams (f) ; Magodonga Mahlangu (f) -

AFR 46/029/2008 - UA 290/08 Jenni Williams and Magodonga Mahlangu, leaders of the activist organisation Women of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) are at risk of torture and ill-treatment. They were arrested on 16 October and are being held at Bulawayo Remand Prison. The two activists were arbitrarily (...)

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Ismail Lutef Huraish (m), aged 49 ; Ali Mussara’a Muhammad Huraish (m), aged 39, his cousin -

MDE 31/009/2008 - UA 292/08 Ismail Lutef Huraish and his cousin Ali Mussara'a Muhammad Huraish are at risk of imminent execution. They have exhausted all their appeal stages, and their death sentences were ratified by the President. They could be executed as early as next week. Another man, (...)

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Muhammad al-Hurani (m), aged 33, Rami al-Arouqi (m), aged 29, .... -

... Rami al-Masri (m),aged 25,Sameer Taleb (m), aged 47, Bassam al-Oehidi (m), aged 28 ,Nadira Abu Oweimar (f), aged 29, Mahmud Odeh (m), aged 31, Radi Abu Rida (m), aged 50, Fathi al-Ghouf (m), aged 43, Ayman al-Ladawi(m), aged 35 , Ahmad Abu Shawish (m), aged 46 ,Naser al-Akhras (m),aged 34 , (...)

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Gregory Edward Wright (m), white, aged 42 -

AMR 51/120/2008 - UA 291/08 Gregory Wright is scheduled to be executed in Texas on 30 October. He was sentenced to death in December 1997 for a murder committed nine months earlier. Donna Vick was killed in her home in DeSoto, near Dallas, in the early hours of 21 March 1997. Later that day, (...)

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Alireza (Elirza) Serrafi (m), civil engineer, journalist and cultural activist ... -

...Akbar (Ekber)Azad (m), writer ; Hassan (Hesen)Rashidi (m), engineer, writer and lecturer; Sa'id (Seid)Mohammadi (Mehemmedi) Mughanli (m), poet and journalist;Hassan (Hesen) Rahimi (Rehimi)Bayat (m), civil engineer, human rights activist; Hossein Haydari (Huseyn Heyderi) (m), student; Abbas (...)

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Mulatu Aberra (m), trader, aged 34 ... -

...Najima Jamal Ismail (f), aged 17; Najima Jamal Ismail's stepfather; a trader (name unconfirmed) AFR 25/010/2008 - Further Information on UA 328/07 (AFR 25/030/2007, 11 December 2007) Najima Jamal Ismail is now known to have been released on bail of 1,000 birr (approx US$100), on 28 (...)

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Hossein Haghi (m), aged 21, Juvenile offender -

MDE 13/153/2008 - Further Information on UA 107/08 (MDE 13/056/2008, 23 April 2008) Hossein Haghi's death sentence has been quashed by the head of Iran's judiciary in September 2008. He is to be retried by Branch 71 of the Tehran Criminal Court. On 12 August 2003, Hossein Haghi, then (...)

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Makhmadsalors Delilovich Masaev (also known as Mukhamadsalakh Masaev) (m) -

EUR 46/028/2008 - Further Information on UA 218/08 (EUR 46/025/2008, 06 August 2008) Amnesty International is concerned that Makhmadsalors Delilovich Masaev has been subjected to enforced disappearance and is at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. He was abducted on 3 August in Grozny, (...)

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Juan Manuel Martínez (m) -

AMR 41/052/2008 - UA 287/08 Juan Manuel Martínez is currently detained in Santa Maria Ixcotel state prison, where he is at risk of torture or ill-treatment in order to force him to confess the 2006 murder of US videojournalist Brad Will. Amnesty International is also concerned that he may not (...)

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Jamila Nabgan (f), aged 43 -

MDE 13/152/2008 - UA 286/08 Jamila Nabgan, a member of the Arab minority in Iran was arrested at her home on 19 October by officers from the Ministry of Intelligence. Her whereabouts are unknown and she is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. At 6am on 19 October 2008 plainclothes (...)

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Imad Al Husin (m) -

EUR 63/005/2008 - UA 285/08 Within the next few days, the authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) are likely to deport Imad Al Husin (also known as Abu Hamza) to Syria, where he is at risk of torture or ill-treatment. Imad Al Husin is in Lukavica (Sarajevo) immigration detention centre (...)

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Mahmoud Matin (m), aged 52, civil engineer; Arash Basirat (m), aged 44 -

MDE 13/156/2008 - Further Information on UA 151/08 (MDE 13/076/2008, 30 May 2008) and follow-ups (MDE 13/079/2008, 11 June 2008; MDE 13/138/2008, 17 September 2008) Mahmoud Matin and Arash Basirat have been acquitted of the charge of apostasy by Branch 5 of the Fars Criminal Court in Shiraz, (...)

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Cipriano Nguema Mba (m), former colonel in Equatorial Guinean army -

AFR 24/013/2008 - UA 288/08 The whereabouts of former Equatorial Guinea army colonel Cipriano Nguema Mba have been unknown since he was illegally arrested in Cameroon. He is at risk of enforced disappearance, torture or ill-treatment and might be held incommunicado in Black Beach prison in the (...)

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Esha Momeni (f), student -

MDE 13/155/2008 - UA 289/08 Esha Momeni, a student and women's rights defender, was arrested by Iranian security officials on 15 October. She is being held in Section 209 of Evin Prison in Tehran, which is run by the Ministry of Intelligence. She has not been charged with any offence, and (...)

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Ozgur Karakaya (m) aged 22; Cihan Gun (m) aged 18 ... -

...Died: Engin Ceber (m) aged 29 EUR 44/021/2008 - Further Information on UA 281/08 (EUR 44/018/2008, 10 October 2008) On 15 October 2008, Ozgur Karakaya and Cihan Gun were released from the Metris prison in Istanbul where they had been held since 29 September. Their friend and colleague (...)

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Alim Rahmanov (m) , Umide Razikova (f), Rahmetullah Adilov (m), aged 15 -

EUR 44/019/2008 - Further Information on UA 265/08 (EUR 44/016/2008, 18 September 2008) Alim Rahmanov, Umide Razikova and their son Rahmetullah Adilov were picked up by law enforcement officials at the places where they were staying in Van on the evening of 11 October, and deported to Iran (...)

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24 Uzbekistani nationals, including 15 children. Another Uzbekistani man -

EUR 44/020/2008 - Further Information on UA 263/08 (MDE 13/139/2008, 17 September 2008) and follow-up (EUR 44/017/2008, 1 October 2008) All but one of the Uzbekistani refugees were picked up by law enforcement officials at the places where they were staying in Van on the evening of 11 October, (...)

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Richard Wade Cooey (m), white, aged 41 -

AMR 51/115/2008 - Further information on UA 275/08 (AMR 51/108/2008, 26 September 2008) Richard Cooey was executed in Ohio on 14 October. He was sentenced to death on 5 December 1986 for the murders of Wendy Offredo and Dawn McCreery committed three months earlier. He was 19 years and two (...)

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Miguel Hidalgo indigenous community, Chiapas state -

AMR 41/051/2008 - UA 281/08 On 3 October, members of the indigenous community of Miguel Hidalgo, La Trinitaria municipality, witnessed a police operation which ended with the killing of 6 people and wounding of 17. Amnesty International fears that they may be at risk of retaliation and (...)

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Troy Anthony Davis (m), black, aged 40 -

AMR 51/116/2008 - UA 283/08 Troy Davis is scheduled to be executed in Georgia at 7pm local time on 27 October. He has been on death row for 17 years for a crime he maintains he did not commit. Troy Davis was convicted in 1991 of the murder of 27-year-old Officer Mark Allen MacPhail who was (...)

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Amrozi bin H. Nurhasyim (m); Ali Ghufron alias Mukhlas (m); Imam Samudera (m) -

ASA 21/020/2008 - Further Information on UA 109/06 (ASA 21/002/2006, 28 April 2006) and follow-ups (ASA 21/007/2006, 4 July 2006 and ASA 21/010/2007, 11 September 2007, ASA 21/012/2007, 25 September 2007, ASA 21/001/2008, 11 January 2008 and ASA 21/013/2008, 17 July 2008) Amrozi bin H. (...)

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Sami Atwa Abu Ishaq (m), aged 5 months ... -

...Ahmed Nahid Mohsin (m), aged 1.5 years; Soheb Wael Alqasas (m), aged 5 years; Hamza Hassan Abu Habel (m), aged 1.2 years; Ahmed Talat Abu Omar (m), aged 6 years; Mohammed Ashraf Abu Ajwah (m), aged 1.2 years MDE 15/041/08 - UA 284/08 The children named above suffer from serious heart (...)

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Valeri Pal, (m), aged 60 -

EUR 61/006/2008 - Further Information on UA 99/08 (EUR 51/002/2008, 16 April 2008) and follow-up (EUR 61/003/2008, 4 June 2008) Concerns regarding the health of possible prisoner of conscience Valeri Pal have been heightened following reports that he had a heart attack on 24 September. Valeri (...)

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Naser Qasemi (m), aged 23 ... -

...Mohammad Reza Haddadi (m), aged 20 ; Iman Hashemi (m), aged 18 ] juvenile offenders MDE 13/151/2008 Further Information on UA 71/08 (MDE 13/049/2008, 13 March 2008) and follow-up (MDE 13/120/2008, 19 August 2008) Juvenile offender Mohammad Reza Haddadi, who was scheduled to be executed on (...)

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Negin Sheikholeslami (f), human rights defender, journalist, aged 34 -

MDE 13/148/2008 - UA 280/08 According to the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan (HROK), Negin Sheikholeslami, a human rights activist from the Kurdish minority in Iran, was arrested at her home in Tehran by members of the security forces at about midnight on 4 October. She is at risk of (...)

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Ma’soumeh Ka’bi (f), aged 31 ... -

...Shima' Nabgan (f), aged 14 ; Asia Nabgan (f), aged 13 ; Asma' Nabgan (f), aged 11 ; Iyad Nabgan (m), aged 8 ; Imad Nabgan (m), aged 4 : Ma'soumeh Ka'bi's children MDE 13/147/2008 - UA 279/08 Ma'soumeh Ka'bi and her five children, all members of the Arab minority in Iran, were forcibly (...)

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Ozgur Karakaya (m) aged 22 ; Cihan Gun (m) aged 18. Died: Engin Ceber (m), aged 29 -

EUR 44/018/2008 - UA 281/08 Ozgur Karakaya, aged 22, 18-year-old Cihan Gun, and a 29-year-old man, Engin Ceber, were among a group of people arrested on 28 September during a demonstration and press conference in the Sariyer district of Istanbul. A lawyer for the three men told Amnesty (...)

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Update - 09/10/2008 -

Mehmet Desde was released on 6 October, after serving his 17-month sentence. Please stop all work on Mehmet Desde.

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17 Uighur detainees held at Guantánamo -

AMR 51/112/2008 - UA 278/08 In a landmark ruling on 7 October 2008, Judge Ricardo Urbina of the US District Court for the District of Columbia (DC) ordered the government to release into the USA the 17 Uighur detainees still held in the US Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The government had (...)

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Update - 08/10/2008 -

The school buildings were completed in time for the start of the new school year in September, and at the end of the month the army ordered a moratorium on demolitions in Area C. Soldiers in Area C have generally complied with the (...)

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Update - 08/10/2008 -

Ronak Safarzadeh has been sentenced in a "side" case, by Branch 101 of Piranshahr General Court to 9 months' imprisonment and a fine of 2 million rials for crossing the border illegally and to possessing a satellite dish (which is illegal in Iran). No verdict has yet been issued with (...)

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Adnan Hassanpour (m) aged 27, Kurdish journalist and cultural rights activist ... -

...Mansour Tayfouri (m), Kurdish journalist and translator: Abdolwahed Butimar, known as Hiwa (m), aged 29, Kurdish activist and environmentalist MDE 13/146/2008 - Further Information on UA 39/07 (MDE 13/017/2007, 16 February 2007) and follow-ups (MDE 13/039/2007, 30 March 2007; MDE (...)

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Saman Rasoulpour (m), Kurdish human rights activist, aged 23 -

MDE 13/144/2008 - Further Information on UA 213/08 (MDE 13/106/2008, 1 August 2008) Kurdish human rights activist Saman Rasoulpour was released on 13 August after being in custody since the 25 July. He was accused of ‘distributing propaganda against the state'. He was released after (...)

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MAKINO Tadashi (m) born 1950 -

ASA 22/010/2008 - Further Information on UA 160/08 (ASA22/002/2008) Death row prisoner Makino Tadashi has just had his latest appeal for clemency rejected on 30 September 2008, and is at imminent risk of execution. He was sentenced to death in 1990 for murdering one woman and injuring two (...)

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24 Uzbekistani nationals, including 15 children . New name: Another Uzbekistani man -

EUR 44/017/2008 - Further Information on UA 263/08 (MDE 13/139/2008, 17 September 2008) The 24 Uzbekistani nationals, and an Uzbekistani man now known to have been deported with them, returned to Turkey irregularly on 23 September from Iran. They had been released on or around 20 September by (...)

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Guadalupe Llori (f), former governor (prefecta) of the province of Orellana -

AMR 28/003/2008 - Further Information on UA 79/08 (AMR 28/01/2008, 25 March 2008) After almost 10 months in jail Guadalupe Llori was acquitted of all charges on 19 September. According to the terms of the acquittal, she should have been released immediately but due to administrative confusion (...)

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J.C. Weliamuna (m), aged 47, human rights lawyer. His family -

ASA 37/028/2008 - UA 277/08 Human rights lawyer J.C Weliamuna and his family survived a grenade attack on their home in the capital, Colombo, on 27 September. He has since gone into hiding, as he remains at risk of further attack. The grenade attack came at 11.40pm as J. C. Weliamuna, his (...)

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Committee on Freedom of Association Statement -

On 13 June, the Committee on Freedom of Association of the UN-affiliated International Labour Organization, stated that: As regards the specific case of lengthy detention of Mansour Ossanlu, president of the Independent Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and Suburbs United Bus Company, the (...)

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Medical care Jeopardised by prison transfer -

On 31 August, Mansour Ossanlu was reportedly transferred to Reja'i Shahr Prison in the city of Karaj, 20 km west of Tehran. On 10 September, Sherkat-e Vahed reported that he had been expecting to be transferred to a hospital for further treatment to his eye, but was transferred to (...)

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Mansour Ossanlu Receives Awards -

In Brussels on 15 September SOLIDAR awarded the Silver Rose Award 2008 to Mansour Ossanlu as the leader of the Syndicate of Workers of Teheran and Suburbs Bus Company (Syndica Sherkat-e Vahed). Solidar is a group of European NGOs which work in development and humanitarian aid, social policy, (...)

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Cristina Auerbach Benavides (f), human rights defender -

AMR 41/050/2008 - UA 272/08 Cristina Auerbach Benavides, a human rights defender from Mexico City, foiled an attempt to put her life at risk. Through her work with Catholic Church organization, Pastoral Laboral, she has been at the forefront of the campaign to obtain justice for the families (...)

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Troy Anthony Davis (m), black, aged 40 -

AMR 51/106/2008 - Further information on UA 250/08 (AMR 51/099/2008, 09 September 2008) and follow-up (AMR 51/103/2008, 15 September 2008) On 23 September, the US Supreme Court issued a stay of execution for Troy Davis, less than two hours before he was to be put to death in Georgia. He has (...)

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Emanuel Zeltser (m), US national -

EUR 49/013/2008 - Further Information on UA 121/08 and follow-up (EUR 49/009/2008, 31 July) On 11 August, Emanuel Zeltser was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for industrial espionage and having used forged documents. He has been granted a hearing on 26 September to appeal against the (...)

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Jeremy Hinzman (m), conscientious objector -

AMR 20/007/2008 - Further Information on UA 253/08 (AMR 20/005/2008, 11 September 2008) Jeremy Hinzman and his family have been allowed to stay in Canada until the country's Federal Court decides whether or not to review their case. Jeremy Hinzman and his family arrived in Canada in August (...)

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Zahra -

MDE 13/143/2008 - UA 273/08 On 14 September, a woman known only as “Zahra” had her death sentence, for the murder of her husband, sent to the Office for Implementation of Sentences in Tehran to implement the sentence. She is at imminent risk of execution. Zahra was convicted of (...)

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Richard Wade Cooey (m), white, aged 41 -

AMR 51/108/2008 - UA 275/08 Richard Cooey is scheduled to be executed in Ohio on 14 October. He was sentenced to death on 5 December 1986 for two murders committed three months earlier. He was 19 years and two months old at the time of the crime. He has spent nearly 22 years on death row. In (...)

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Rang Lai Mro (m), indigenous community leader -

ASA 13/003/2008 - UA 276/08 Indigenous community leader Rang Lai Mro, who is serving a jail sentence imposed after an unfair trial, is being refused medical treatment for a serious heart condition. He is the head of a community of indigenous Mro people in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT), in (...)

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Update - 24/09/2008 -

Amnesty International has been in contact with someone close to Charles Ntakiruntinka. Still detained in Kigali central prison 1930. There is no reason to believe that he has been subject to torture by the prison authorities. There are also no reports of ill-health. Charles Ntakirutinka has (...)

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Maqsoud Ahdi (m) , Mansour Aminian (m) , ... -

... Dariush Hatemi (m), 29 ,Aydin Khaje'i (m), 23 , Amir Mardani (m) , Majid Makuyi (m), Sejjad Radmehr (m) ,Feraz Zahtab (m), 23 , student activists for the cultural rights of Iranian Azerbaijanis MDE 13/142/2008 - UA 271/08 The student activists named above were detained during a series of (...)

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Rodolfo Vecino Acevedo (m), ... -

... Rafael Cabarcas (m) ,Nelsón Berrio (m), Hernando Hernández (m) , members of the Oil Worker's Union Unión Sindical Obrera de la Industria del Petróleo USO ; Domingo Tovar (m) , member of the Trade Union Congress (Central Unitaria de Trabajadores, CUT); Lenin Fernández (m), student leader in (...)

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Behnam Zare' (m), juvenile offender -

MDE 13/126/2008 - Further Information on 230/07 (MDE 13/109/2007, 31 August 2007) and follow-up (MDE 13/032/2008, 05 February 2008 and MDE 13/044/2008, 06 March 2008) On 26 August, Behnam Zare` was hanged in Adelabad prison, in the south-western city of Shiraz. Neither his parents nor his (...)

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Elizabeth Gómez (f),Luz Marina Arroyabe (f),Yimmi Jansasoy (m) ... -

ACTIONS URGENTES ...Fabio Ariza (m), Senaida Parra (f), Carlos Torres (m), Andrea Abello (f), Eduardo Mina( m): Members of the Inter-Church Justice, and Peace Commission, (Comisión Intereclesial Justicia y Paz); Enrique Petro: Community leader AMR 23/029/2008 - UA 234/08 On 25 August, a team (...)

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Martha Contreras Estrada (f) ... -

...Remigio Hernández Arellano (m), José Gómez Estrada (m): Deceased AMR 41/037/2008 - UA 233/08 On 9 August, Remigio Hernández Arellano and José Gómez were arrested by police officers in the small town of Benemérito de las Américas, Chiapas state, for drinking alcohol in a park. Before being (...)

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Nufuz Husni (f),aged 44, Muhammad al Hurani (m), aged 25 ... -

...Rami Al Arouqi (m), aged 29, Rami al Masri (m), aged 25, Sameer Taleb (m), aged 47. New names: Bassam al-Oehidi (m), Nadira Abu Oweimar (f), Mustafa Sha'sha (m), Rada Khdair (f), Walid al Sawarkhi (m), Mahmud Odeh (f), Radi abu Rida (f), Ahmad Abu Shawish (m), Fathi al-‘Af (m), Ayman (...)

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Elena Varela López (f) -

AMR 22/002/2008 - Further Information on UA 154/08 (AMR 22/001/2008, 3 June 2008) Documentary filmmaker Elena Varela López was released on 13 August, after more than three months in custody. She is now subject to aresto domiciliario nocturna (house arrest between 10pm and 8am), and arraigo (...)

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Abdirahman Mohamed Qani (m), tribal leader ... -

...Abdiaziz Mohamed Layli (m), Danish citizen; Diriye Layli Siigaale (m); Nabadiid Askar (m); Shaafi dhala-hool (m); Cumar Madoobe(m); Ahmed Allow-xiir (m); Inqaas Karuur (m); Dhakoorr Luuntire Adan Geeddan (m); Abdullahi Ahmed Qormahaye (m). Three others AFR 25/007/2008 - UA 232/08 Ugaas (...)

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Ahmad Qasaban (m); Majid Tavakkoli (m) ... -

... Mansouri (m) ]Students at Amir Kabir University, Tehran MDE 13/125/2008 - Further Information on UA 113/07 (MDE 13/054/2007, 15 May 2007) and follow-up (MDE 13/077/2007, 22 June 2007; MDE 13/098/2007, 1 August 2007; MDE 13/114/2007, 26 September 2007 and MDE 13/055/2008, 18 April 2008) (...)

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Mohammad Feda'i (m), aged 21, juvenile offender -

MDE 13/121/2008 - Further Information on UA 146/08 (MDE 13/074/2008, 30 May 2008) and follow-up (MDE 13/100/2008, 25 July 2008) On 14 August, Mohammad Feda'i's execution was stayed for another month. Mohammad Feda'i is now facing execution in mid-September, if his family and relatives of (...)

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Naser Qasemi (m), aged 23 ... -

...Mohammad Reza Haddadi (m), aged 18; Reza Hejazi (m), aged 19; Iman Hashemi (m), aged 18 ] juvenile offenders MDE 13/120/2008 - Further Information on UA 71/08 (MDE 13/049/2008, 13 March 2008) Reza Hejazi was hanged in Esfahan prison on 19 August. His lawyer was not informed that his (...)

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Mesha’l al-Tammo (m), aged 51, Kurdish political activist -

MDE 24/026/2008 - UA 231/08 Political activist Mesha'l al-Tammo, who is a member of Syria's Kurdish minority, has not been seen since the early hours of 15 August 2008, when he set off from the northern city of 'Ein al-'Arab (known in Kurdish as Qobani) where he had undertaking (...)

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Humanitarian assistance to civilians in Georgia -

EUR 56/008/2008 - Further Information on UA 220/08 (EUR 56/005/2008, 11 August 2008) Humanitarian organizations report that they are still prevented from delivering aid to the disputed region of South Ossetia, leading to fears that civilians in the region are at risk of illness and starvation. (...)

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Mahboubeh Karami (f), aged 40, journalist and women’s rights defender; About 200 others -

MDE 13/119/2008 - Further Information on UA 169/08 (MDE 13/084/2008, 17 June 2008) and follow-ups (MDE 13/089/2008, 27 June 2008; MDE 13/097/2008, 25 July 2008) Mahboubeh Karami was charged within the past week with "acting against national security," and the Revolutionary Court in Mahabad has (...)

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Dante Valdez (m),teacher.Members of the Ejido de Huizopa community, Chihuahua state -

AMR 41/036/2008 - UA 229/08 Primary school teacher Dante Valdez was attacked on 13 August by a group of about 30 people who burst into a local school in Madera, Chihuahua state, where he was taking part in a teacher training course. The attackers, most of whom work for a local mine, pushed and (...)

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Ismael Tae (m), aged 22 ; Amisi Manak (m), aged 23 ... -

...Ruslan Tuyong (m), aged 23 ; Waerosalee Latae (m), aged 23 ; Romlee Latae (m), aged 21 : University students ASA 39/006/2008 - UA 230/08 The five Muslim university students named above were detained on the morning of 15 August by a military unit that had previously tortured two of them. (...)

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Amir Amrollahi (m), aged 17 or 18 -

MDE 13/114/2008 - Further Information on UA 15/08 (MDE 13/009/2008, 18 January 2008) Juvenile offender Amir Amrollahi's death sentence received final approval from the Head of the Judiciary earlier this month, and judicial officials in Shiraz province have been asked to prepare to carry (...)

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Behnoud Shojaee (m), aged 20, juvenile offender -

MDE 13/117/2008 - Further Information on UA 114/08 (MDE 13/065/2008, 29 April 2008) and follow-ups (MDE 13/066/2008, 8 May 2008; MDE 13/081/2008, 12 June 2008; MDE 13/101/2008, 25 July 2008) Behnoud Shojaee is again in imminent danger of execution: his family was unable to afford the diyeh, or (...)

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Zeynab Bayzeydi (f), women's rights activist -

MDE 13/116/2008 - Further Information on UA 214/08 (MDE 13/107/2008, 1 August 2008) Kurdish women's rights activist Zeynab Bayzeydi has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment, and internal exile to the Turkish-speaking city of Zanjan, 246 km from her home, by Mahabad (...)

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Usama ‘Ashour (m), aged 48, Agronomist -

MDE 24/025/2008 - Further information on UA 211/08 (MDE 24/022/2008, 31 July 2008) Usama ‘Ashour was released on 13 August. He had been arrested on 29 July by the Syrian Military Intelligence (SMI) at his house in Aleppo city. He is a member of the pro-democracy umbrella group Damascus (...)

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Kamal (m), aged 17, barber's assistant -

MDE 13/115/2008 - UA 228/08 Seventeen-year-old barber's assistant Kamal was sentenced to death for murder on 12 April 2008. His death sentence was approved by the Supreme Court at the beginning of August 2008, and his case has since been sent to the Head of the Judiciary for final (...)

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Sultan Bin Khalid Mahmud al-Maskati (m), aged 23 ... -

...Yusef Bin Hassan Bin Salman al-Muwallad (m), aged 23; Qassim Bin ‘Ali Bin Ibrahim Al-Nakhli (m), aged 22; Sultan Bin Sulayman Bin Muslim al-Muwallad (m), aged 20; ‘Issa bin Muhammad ‘Umar Muhammad (m), aged 20, Chadian national; Bilal Bin Muslih Bin Jabir al-Muwallad (m), (...)

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Dr Mohamed al-Saqaf, (m), aged 60, lawyer and academic -

MDE 31/005/2008 - Further Information on 222/08 (AI Index: MDE 31/004/2008, 12 August 2008) Dr Mohamed al-Saqaf was released on 13 August, on the condition that he reports to the authorities whenever required to do so. Dr Mohamed al-Saqaf, a lawyer and university lecturer, was arrested on 11 (...)

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Mohamed Kohail (m), aged 23, Canadian national ... -

...Mehanna Sa'd (m), aged 22, Jordanian national; Sultan Kohail (m), aged 17, Canadian national MDE 23/037/2008 - Further information on UA 116/07 (MDE 23/019/2007, 17 May 2007), and follow-ups (MDE 23/030/2007, 2 August 2007; MDE 23/016/2008, 31 March 2008; MDE 23/012/2008, 8 April 2008) On (...)

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400 Palestinian students -

MDE 15/033/2008 - UA 226/08 Some 400 Palestinian students may lose their university places and scholarships unless the Israeli authorities allow them to leave the Gaza Strip before the new academic year, which starts in the next few weeks. The students have enrolled to study subjects (...)

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Mahmoud Abu Rideh -

EUR 45/014/2008 - Further Information on UA 175/08 (EUR 45/008/2008, 19 June 2008) Palestinian refugee Mahmoud Abu Rideh, who is the subject of a "control order" imposed by the UK government, was discharged from hospital on 7 July. However, his physical and mental health remains poor. He has (...)

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Mehdi Khoda’i (m), Salman Sima (m: ] students at Azad University ... -

...Shahr-e Rey; Farzad Hassanzadeh (m) Mohamad Zerati (m) , ] students at Mashad University ; Bahareh Hedayat (f), Mohammad Hashemi (m) :] students at Tehran University ; Majid Asadi (m) :] student at ‘Allameh University, Tehran; Arash Rayji (m), Hassan Joneydi (m), Hassan Joneydi (m), (...)

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Amilcar de Jesús Pop Ac (m),President of the MayanLawyers’Association(Asociación de Abogados Mayas) -

AMR 34/018/2008 - UA 223/08 Amilcar de Jesús Pop Ac has been threatened with death at gunpoint by masked men, apparently in connection with his work as President of the Mayan Lawyers' Association (Asociación de Abogados Mayas). His life is at risk. On the night of 1 August, as he drove (...)

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Up to 1,200 forcibly returned asylum seekers -

AFR 64/004/2008 - UA 225/08 Between 12 and 19 June, up to 1,200 Eritrean asylum-seekers were forcibly returned from Egypt to Eritrea. While almost all of the returned women with children and those who were pregnant were released after some weeks in detention, the majority of the male and (...)

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Mise à jour du 13 mai 2008 -

Patrick talked to his brother about the conditions in Aba prison. He said that the prison and the cells are overcrowded. The prison has capacity for 500 people but the current population is near 750. Speaking about conditions on his cells he said: It is poorly ventilated and compacted. We are (...)

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Shabnam Parastesh, (f), aged around 33 years -

MDE 13/111/2008 - UA 221/08 Shabnam Parastesh's death sentence has been upheld by the Supreme Court for the murder of her husband. Her execution was scheduled for 12 August and she is at imminent risk of execution. In 2006, a criminal court in Tehran found her guilty of the murder of her (...)

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Dr Mohamed al-Saqaf, (m), aged 60, lawyer and academic -

MDE 31/004/2008 - UA 222/08 Dr Mohamed al-Saqaf, a lawyer and university lecturer, was arrested on 11 August by security forces at the airport in the capital, Sana'a. He is being held by the National Security forces (al- Amn al-Qawmi) at the Criminal investigation prison in Sana'a, where he is (...)

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Dr ‘Aref Dalilah (m), aged 65, former Dean of the Faculty of Economics, Aleppo University -

MDE 24/023/2008 - Further Information on UA 268/06 (MDE 24/060/2006, 04 October 2006) and follow-up (MDE 24/008/2008, 08 February 2008) Dr. Aref Dalilah was released on 07 August after he was granted a presidential amnesty. Amnesty International welcomes Dr. Aref Dalilah's release and (...)

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Shamemeh Ghorbani (f), aged 34 -

MDE 13/113/2008 - UA 224/08 Shamemeh Ghorbani has been sentenced to 100 lashes, after being found guilty of adultery at a retrial. Her sentence could be carried out at any time. Shamemeh Ghorbani was sentenced to execution by stoning for adultery at her first trial in June 2006 (see UA (...)

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Update - 11/08/2008 -

Various media are reporting that Zeng Jinyan's whereabouts are unknown. We has been monitoring her situation and we know that over the last two or three weeks, the police have pressured Zeng Jinyan to leave Beijing voluntarily during the Olympic Games. It is possible she has been forced by (...)

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Civilian lives at risk -

EUR 56/005/2008 - UA 220/08 The lives of civilians in the disputed region of South Ossetia and in Georgia are at risk. Heavy civilian casualties have been reported as a result of fighting between Georgian and Russian forces which has escalated over the past few days. Although reports of (...)

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Tubagus Maulana Yusuf (m); Rio Alek Bulo (m); Nyonya Sumiarsih (f); Sugeng (m), her son -

ASA 21/016/2008 - Further Information on UA 199/08 (ASA 21/011/2008, 10 July 2008) Rio Alek Bulo was executed by firing squad on Friday 8 August. He was convicted in 2001 of murdering four people and whilst awaiting execution was convicted of killing a fellow inmate. His request for clemency (...)

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At least 200 Palestinians -

MDE 21/005/2008 - Further Information on UA 217/08 (MDE 21/004/2008, 06 August 2008) On 7 August, the Ministry of the Interior of the de facto Hamas administration in Gaza announced that its security forces had released 150 of the Palestinian detainees, including senior Fatah leaders. Amnesty (...)

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‘Ali Hassan ‘Issa al-Buri, aged about 36 (m) -

... Qassim Bin Rida Bin Sulayman al Mahdi aged about 24 (m) ; Khalid Bin Muhammad ‘Issa al-Qadihi aged about 27 (m) ; Saudi Arabian nationals MDE 23/035/2008 - UA 219/08 Ali Hassan ‘Issa al-Buri, Qassim Bin Rida Bin Sulayman al Mahdi and Khalid Bin Muhammad ‘Issa al-Qadihi (...)

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Ya'qoub Mehrnehad (m) aged 28, member of Iran’s Baluchi minority -

MDE 13/110/2008 - Further Information on 38/08 (MDE 13/038/2008, 12 February 2008) and follow-up (13/048/2008, 12 February 2008) Ya'qoub Mehrnehad, a Baluchi cultural and civil rights activist, was executed on 4 August after his death sentence was approved by Iran's prosecutor-general. (...)

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Up to 1,200 Eritrean asylum-seekers -

MDE 12/018/2008 - Further Information on UA 165/08 (MDE 12/011/2008, 12 June 2008) and follow-up (MDE 12/013/2008, 16 June 2008) Up to 1,200 Eritrean asylum-seekers were forcibly returned to Eritrea between 12 and 19 June. Reports from Eritrea indicate that most of the men who were returned (...)

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Update - 06/08/2008 -

The protection measures requested by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights for Dina Meza are still not being fully implemented. More positively, in a recent meeting with the authorities a commitment was made to ensure that regular police patrols are made twice a day in the area where (...)

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José Ernesto Medellín Rojas (m), Mexican national, aged 33 -

AMR 51/089/2008 - Further information UA 204/08 (AMR 51/081/2008, 17 July 2008) Mexican national José Medellín was executed in Texas on the evening of 5 August in violation of the USA's international legal obligations and despite worldwide appeals for the execution to be stopped, including (...)

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At least 200 Palestinians -

MDE 21/004/2008 - UA 217/08 At least 200 people are still detained in the Gaza Strip, after a crackdown by the ruling Hamas de facto administration on political activists and armed militia members affiliated with the Fatah party. Detainees are held incommunicado without their legal rights and (...)

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Dr Arash Alaei (m), doctor ; Dr Kamiar Alaei (m), doctor, brother of Arash Alaei -

MDE 13/108/2008 - UA 216/08 Brothers Arash Alaei and Kamiar Alaei, both of whom are doctors specialising in the prevention and management of HIV and AIDS, were arrested in June. They are believed to be held without charge in Tehran's Evin Prison. E'temad newspaper in Iran has reported (...)

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Makhmadsalors Delilovich Masaev (also known as Mukhamadsalakh Masaev), (m) -

EUR 46/025/2008 - UA 218/08 Makhmadsalors Delilovich Masaev, was abducted on 3 August in Grozny, capital of the Chechen Republic, by men in camouflage uniform. Makhmadsalors Masaev was in Grozny on 2 August, to attend the funeral of a relative. On 3 August, he decided to visit other relatives (...)

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Fariba Kamalabadi Taefi (f) ; Jamaloddin Khanjani (m) ... -

... Afif Naeimi (m) ; Saeid Rezaei (m) ; Behrouz Tavakkoli (m) ; Vahid Tizfahm (m) ; Mahvash Sabet (f) members of the Baha'i community MDE 13/109/2008 - Further Information on UA 128/08 (MDE 13/068/2008, 15 May 2008) The seven people named above, all members of the Baha'i religious minority, (...)

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Edison Gonzales (m), aged 46 ; Rolando Manaloto Gonzales (m), aged 48 ... -

... Eduardo Arcilla (m), aged 46 ; Victoriano Alfonso (m), aged 48 ; Efren Francisco Dimaun (m), aged 49 ; Omar Basillo (m), aged 42 ; Joel Sinamban (m), aged 40 ; Filipino nationals MDE 23/030/2008 - UA 215/08 Edison Gonzales, Rolando Manaloto Gonzales and Eduardo Arcilla have been sentenced (...)

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Ahmed Maher, aged 27, civil engineer ; Mohamd Taher (m) ; 13 other protesters -

MDE 12/017/2008 - Further Information on UA 208/08 (MDE 12/016/2008, 25 July 2008) Ahmed Maher and thirteen other protestors were released without charge, from the Borg al Arab prison between 30 July and 01 August. On 24 July, the public prosecutor ordered that the protestors be detained for (...)

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Zeynab Bayzeydi (f), women's rights activist -

MDE 13/107/2008 - UA 214/08 Women's rights activist Zeynab Bayzeydi was arrested on 9 July, after the police ordered her to present herself for interrogation at a police station in the city of Mahabad, in the western province of Kordestan. She is in danger of torture or other (...)

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Saman Rasoulpour (m), Kurdish human rights activist, aged 23 -

MDE 13/106/2008 - UA 213/08 Kurdish human rights activist Saman Rasoulpour was arrested on 25 July at his home in the city of Mahabad, in West Azerbaijan province, and is in danger of torture. He is a senior member of an organisation that campaigns for better treatment of Iran's Kurdish (...)

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Thomas Douglas Arthur (m), white, aged 66 -

AMR 51/086/2008 - Further information on UA 195/08 (AMR 51/073/2008, 8 July 2008) Thomas Arthur was granted a stay of execution on 30 July, the day before he was scheduled to be put to death. The Alabama Supreme Court issued the stay by five votes to four. Thomas Arthur was sentenced to death (...)

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Kevin Young (m), black, aged 42 -

AMR 51/085/2008 - Further information on UA 187/08 (AMR 51/070/2008, 27 June 2008) and updates (AMR 51/075/2008, 10 July 2008; AMR 51/079/2008, 16 July 2008) Brad Henry, Oklahoma Governor, has accepted the recommendation of the state Pardon and Parole Board in the case of Kevin Young and has (...)

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Mehdi Khoda’i (m); Salman Sima (m)] students at Azad University ... -

...Shahre-Ray; Farzad Hassanzadeh (m); Mohamad Zerati (m)] students at Mashad University ; Bahareh Hedayat (f); Mohammad Hashemi (m)] students at Tehran University ;Majid Asadi (m) ] student at Alahmeh University, Tehran Arash Rayji (m); Hassan Joneydi (m); Payam Shakiba (m)] students at Zanjan (...)

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Usama ‘Ashour (m), aged 48, Agronomist -

MDE 24/022/2008 - UA 211/08 Usama ‘Ashour, a political activist, was arrested on 29 July by Syrian Military Intelligence (SMI) at his house in Aleppo city. He is being detained incommunicado at the Military Security Branch in Aleppo, and is at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. He (...)

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Emanuel Zeltser -

EUR 49/009/2008 - Further Information on UA 121/08 (EUR 49/006/2008, 07 May 2008) and follow-up (AI Index: EUR 49/007/08 16/06/08) Emanuel Zeltser's trial began on 30 July. He is being tried on charges of “using forged documents”, “possession and smuggling of illegal (...)

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Khalid al-Zahrani (m), biochemistry lecturer ... -

...A female postgraduate student (name known to Amnesty International) MDE 23/028/2008 - Further Information on UA 95/08 (MDE 23/020/2008, 11 April 2008) Khalid al-Zahrani's sentence of 600 lashes and eight months' imprisonment was recently upheld by a Court of Cassation in Saudi (...)

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José Suasnavar (m), deputy director of the Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala (FAFG) ... -

...Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation AMR 34/017/2008 - UA 210/08 José Suasnavar, deputy director of the Guatemalan Forensic Anthropology Foundation (Fundación de Antropología Forense de Guatemala, FAFG) received four threatening SMS messages on and between 27/29 July. FAFG carries (...)

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Jose Luis Urbano (m), human rights defender ... -

...His family ; Members of Fundación Pro-Defensa del Derecho a la Educación (Foundation for the Defense of the Right to Education) AMR 53/004/2008 - Further Information on UA 46/07 (AMR 53/001/2007, 26 February 2007) Human rights defender Jose Luis Urbano has been threatened as a result of (...)

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Jorge Aragón Martínez (m), teacher and political activist ... -

...His son, aged 19; New name: Melesio Melchor Ángeles (m), radio host and political activist AMR 41/034/2008 - Further Information on UA 182/08 (AMR 41/028/2008, 25 June 2008) Gunmen fired at Melesio Melchor Ángeles' house on the night of 27 July, and also at a house that Jorge Aragón (...)

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Souran ‘Omar (m), aged 30; Nehad Jami (m) ... -

...Kusrat ‘Abd al-Rahman (m): journalists; 13 other journalists and writers . Killed: Souran Mama Hama (m), aged 23; ‘Abd al-Sattar Taher Sharif (m), aged 74 MDE 14/020/2008 - UA 209/08 Several journalists and writers from the Kurdistan region of Iraq have received death threats (...)

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Saeed Jazee (m), aged 21, juvenile offender -

MDE 13/102/2008 - Further Information on UA 08/08 (MDE 13/006/2008, 09 January 2008) and follow-up (MDE 13/070/2008, 21 May 2008) Saeed Jazee is no longer under threat of execution: he was pardoned on 24 July by the family of the man he was convicted of killing. He had been convicted of the (...)

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Mahboubeh Karami (f), aged 40, journalist and women’s rights defender, and about 200 others -

MDE 13/097/2008 - Further Information on UA 169/08 (MDE 13/084/2008, 17 June 2008 and Follow up MDE 13/089/2008, 27 June 2008) Mahboubeh Karami has been held in Evin Prison in Tehran since 13 June. Bail of 1,000 billion rials (approximately US$110,000) was set on 12 July, but her family have (...)

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Mohamed Abdelrahman Ferah (m), aged 33 -

EUR 23/002/2008 25 - Further Information on UA 194/08 (EUR 23/001/2008 4 July 2008) On 23 July, the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees, repealed its decision to forcibly return Mohamed Abdelrahman Ferah to Eritrea. Mohamed Abdelrahman Ferah arrived in Frankfurt on 12 May 2008, (...)

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Soghra Najafpour (f), aged 31 -

MDE13/098/2008 - Further Information on 271/07 (MDE/124/2007, 23 October 2007) Soghra Najafpour has been sentenced to death, for the second time, for a murder which took place when she was only 13 years old. She is in prison in the northern city of Rasht, where she has spent most of the last (...)

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Ali Mahin Torabi (m), aged about 21, juvenile offender -

MDE 13/099/2008 - Further Information on UA 263/07 (MDE 13/116/2007, 16 October 2007) and follow-ups (MDE 13/146/2007, 11 December 2007; MDE 13/152/2007, 21 December 2007) Following a review ordered by the head of Iran's judiciary, Ali Mahin Torabi's death sentence has been quashed and he (...)

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Mohammad Feda’i (m), aged 21, juvenile offender -

MDE 13/100/2008 - Further Information on UA 146/08 (MDE 13/074/2008, 30 May 2008) and follow-up (MDE 13/082/2008, 12 June 2008) The head of Iran's judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, has granted juvenile offender Mohammad Feda'i a further one-month stay of execution, to (...)

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Behnoud Shojaee (m), aged 20, juvenile offender -

MDE 13/101/2008 - Further Information on UA 114/08 (MDE 13/065/2008, 29 April 2008) and follow-ups (MDE 13/066/2008, 08 May 2008, and MDE 13081/2008, 12 June 2008) The head of Iran's judiciary, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, has granted juvenile offender Behnoud Shojaee a further (...)

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