Caribbean

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

Public. amnesty international. USA: Supreme Court to consider constitutionality of life imprisonment without parole for children. 05 November 2009. ...

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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Colombia: Stop paramilitary death threats
3 November 2009

A paramilitary group has threatened to kill six individuals and members of five organizations in western Colombia. All are in grave danger.

Urgent Action       AMR 23/025/2009