Middle East And North Africa

Syria: Journalist arrested, risks torture
11 December 2009

Journalist Ma’an ‘Aqel was arrested on 22 November in the Syrian capital, Damascus. He is now held incommunicado, putting him at risk of torture and other ill-treatment ...

Urgent Action       MDE 24/037/2009

Iranian opposition group supporters in Iraq must not be forcibly ...
11 December 2009

Residents of Camp Ashraf, north of Baghdad, have beengiven a deadline of 15 December to leave or they will be removed and relocated elsewhere in Iraq.

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Iraq: Iranian opposition group supporters must not be forcibly ...
11 December 2009

The Iraqi authorities must not forcibly relocate about 3400 members of an Iranian opposition group from a settlement north of Baghdad where they have lived since ...

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Tunisia: Slandering Media Campaign against Tunisian Human Rights ...
10 December 2009

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI index: MDE 30/020/2009. 10 December 2009. Tunisia: Slandering Media Campaign against Tunisian ...

Document       MDE 30/020/2009

Women on the frontline for human rights | Amnesty International
10 December 2009

To mark World Human Rights Day, Amnesty International spoke to threewomen who put their lives on the line in defence of human rights.

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Morocco must allow human rights activist Aminatou Haidar to return ...
10 December 2009

Aminatou Haidar has been on hunger strike in Lanzarote airport since 15 November, after Moroccan authorities confiscated her passport and expelled her from the ...

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Iran: Election contested, repression compounded
10 December 2009

During the widespread unrest that followed the contested election result in June 2009, thousands of people were arbitrarily arrested, dozens were killed on the ...

Document       MDE 13/123/2009

Post-election Iran violations among worst in 20 years | Amnesty ...
10 December 2009

New report details abuse before, during and afterthe June election, when authorities deployed the Basij militia andRevolutionary Guards to suppress mass protests ...

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Death sentences over Saudi 'sorcery' claims | Amnesty ...
10 December 2009

Lebanese national 'Ali Hussain Sibat and another unidentified man,could be executed at any time if their sentences are upheld by theappeal and Supreme Courts.

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Post-election Iran violations some of the worst in 20 years ...
10 December 2009

Human rights violations in Iran are now as bad as at any time in the past 20 years, Amnesty International said today in a new report on the aftermath of last June ...

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