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Haiti: Death threat to human rights lawyer in Haiti: Patrice ...
22 May 2013

A human rights lawyer in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, has been threatened and intimidated since 15 April 2013, when two men were arrested and beaten. One died in custody ...

Urgent Action       AMR 36/013/2013

Venezueala: Further information: Opposition politician released
22 May 2013

Antonio Rivero has been released pending trial. He was arrested for his involvement in protests after the election results were published.

Urgent Action       AMR 53/008/2013

Colombia: Further information: Death threat to mother of man ...
21 May 2013

The mother and lawyers of a young man killed by the members of the Colombian armed forces have received death threats, days before a court hearing on the case.

Urgent Action       AMR 23/023/2013

Venezuela: Murders of family continue; 17-year-old killed
20 May 2013

On the night of 16 May 2013, 17-year-old Roni Barrios was murdered with a machete or axe in Aragua state, Venezuela. He is the tenth member of the Barrios family ...

Urgent Action       AMR 53/007/2013

Colombia: Paramilitaries threaten rights organisation
20 May 2013

Human rights defenders working with forcibly displaced people in Barrancabermeja, Northern Colombia, received three death threats from paramilitaries on 13 and ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/022/2013

Finland: Follow-up procedure to the forty-sixth session of the ...
17 May 2013

In June 2011, the Committee against Torture (the Committee) expressed concern over Finland's compliance with the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman ...

Report       EUR 20/001/2013

USA: Push USA on new promise to shut Guantánamo
17 May 2013

According to the military authorities, 102 of the 166 detainees in the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba are on hunger strike, with 30 being “tube fed”. In ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/029/2013

Canada: Follow-up procedure to the forty-eighth session of the ...
17 May 2013

Amnesty International is deeply concerned about Canada's lack of progress in implementing the 2012 recommendations of the Committee against Torture (the Committee ...

Report       AMR 20/001/2013

Activists worldwide target homophobia in Jamaica, Ukraine and ...
17 May 2013

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. FEATURE. AI index: ACT 30/032/2013. 17 May 2013. Activists worldwide target homophobia in Jamaica, Ukraine and South Africa. ...

PressItem       ACT 30/032/2013

USA: Re Guantánamo: A human rights appeal to the US ...
17 May 2013

In recent weeks, the detentions at the US naval base in Guantánamo Bay have been back in the spotlight, forced there by the hunger strike in which more than half ...

Document       AMR 51/030/2013