Middle East And North Africa

Saudi Arabia: Death penalty/ fear of imminent execution
31 March 2008

A Jordanian national, Mehanna Sa’d, is now known to have been sentenced to death together with Canadian national Mohamed Kohail. Both men have appealed; if their ...

Urgent Action       MDE 23/016/2008

Arab League summit should repudiate new controls on satellite ...
28 March 2008

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: MDE 24/012/2008 (Public). Date: 28 March 2008. Arab League summit should repudiate ...

Document       MDE 24/012/2008

Two more migrants killed at Egypt/Israel border | Amnesty ...
28 March 2008

Two men believed to be from Côte d'Ivoire were shot dead by Egyptiansecurity forces while trying to cross into Israel on Thursday.

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Saudi Arabia: Incommunicado detention/ fear of torture
28 March 2008

Eight Bahraini nationals have been held incommunicado since their arrest a month ago, and are at risk of torture and other ill treatment. According to information ...

Urgent Action       MDE 23/013/2008

Egyptian newspaper editor sentenced to six months | Amnesty ...
27 March 2008

The editor of an Egyptian daily newspaper was been sentenced to sixmonths in prison onWednesday for writing about the health of the President.

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Saudi Arabia: Further information on death penalty: Faisal Fouzan ...
27 March 2008

According to press reports, on 23 March 2008 the appeal court quashed the death sentence against Faisal Fouzan al-Otaibi and upheld a sentence against him for the ...

Urgent Action       MDE 23/015/2008

Egypt: Newspaper editor’s prosecution part of a “pattern of ...
27 March 2008

Ibrahim Eissa was charged under Articles 171 and 188 of the Penal Code for publishing in 2007 information considered by the authorities to be damaging to the public ...

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