Americas

Nicaragua: Constitutional Court must decide on legality of new ...
6 November 2009

Amnesty International today expressed concern that the Nicaraguan Supreme Court continues to delay its judgment on the legality of new criminal laws on abortion ...

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Nicaragua's Constitutional Court must decide on legality of new ...
6 November 2009

Amnesty International has expressed concern that the Nicaraguan SupremeCourt continues to delay its judgment on the legality of new criminallaws on abortion which ...

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Guyana: Further information: Tortured Guyanese man may face unfair ...
6 November 2009

A 20-year-old man held incommunicado at a police station in Guyana has been released without charge, and a 15-year-old boy receiving hospital treatment for torture ...

Urgent Action       AMR 35/003/2009

USA: Further information: Twentieth execution of the year in Texas
6 November 2009

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 Joe Collins committed during ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/114/2009

Paraguay: Indigenous communities facing eviction
5 November 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 ...

Urgent Action       AMR 45/048/2009

Convictions in Abu Omar rendition case a step toward ...
5 November 2009

US and Italian intelligence agents are convicted for their involvement in theabduction of Usama Mostafa Hassan Nasr (better known as Abu Omar).

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USA: Supreme Court to consider constitutionality of life ...
5 November 2009

The United States Supreme Court will shortly hear oral arguments in the cases of two prisoners in Florida who are serving sentences of life imprisonment without ...

Document       AMR 51/113/2009

Colombia: Murdered man's brother threatened
5 November 2009

A man whose brother was killed by the security forces has received death threats. His life is in danger.

Urgent Action       AMR 23/026/2009

Acts of torture by Guyanese police must be punished | Amnesty ...
4 November 2009

Amnesty International has urged the Guyanese authorities to charge police officers involved in the torture and ill-treatment of three individuals who were detained ...

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Italy: The Abu Omar case
4 November 2009

In February 2003, Usama Mostafa Hassan Nasr (known as Abu Omar) was on his way to a local mosque when he was abducted from a street in Milan. He was subsequently ...

Document       EUR 30/012/2009