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USA: Further information: Execution carried out in Alabama: Holly ...
10 September 2010

Holly Wood, a 50-year-old African American man with significant mental impairments, was executed by lethal injection in Alabama on the evening 9 September. He had ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/084/2010

Brazil: Indigenous group in critical situation
10 September 2010

Approximately 80 members of the Guarani Kaiowá Y'poí Indigenous group in Brazil have been threatened by armed men hired by local farm owners. They have been prevented ...

Urgent Action       AMR 19/012/2010

Paraguay: Indigenous leaders receive death threats
10 September 2010

On 5 September 2010, two leaders of the Kelyenmagategma Indigenous community in Paraguay received death threats while accompanying an international delegation that ...

Urgent Action       AMR 45/005/2010

USA: Secrecy blocks accountability, again: Federal court dismisses ...
9 September 2010

A federal court ruling on 8 September 2010 upholding the US administration's invocation of the “state secrets privilege” and agreeing to dismiss a lawsuit brought ...

Document       AMR 51/081/2010

USA: Man faces execution despite trial concerns: Gregory Wilson
9 September 2010

Gregory Wilson, a 53-year-old African American man, is scheduled to be executed in Kentucky State Penitentiary, USA, on 16 September after more than two decades ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/082/2010

Brazil: Act now for community leader at risk in Brazil: Alexandre ...
8 September 2010

Alexandre Anderson de Souza, the president of the Associação dos Homens do Mar (AHOMAR, a fishermen's association), has received a series of threats related to ...

Urgent Action       AMR 19/011/2010

Cuba: Amnesty International criticises President Obama's decision ...
8 September 2010

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: AMR 25/015/2010. 8 September 2010. Amnesty International criticises President Obama's decision on Cuba. ...

Document       AMR 25/015/2010

Cuba: Pro-democracy activists released
8 September 2010

Five men, all members of a pro-democracy organization in Cuba, have been released after almost three weeks in detention. They had been held in connection with their ...

Urgent Action       AMR 25/014/2010

USA: Further information: Ohio Governor commutes death sentence ...
3 September 2010

Kevin Keith's death sentence was commuted on 2 September by the Governor of Ohio to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole. He had been scheduled to ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/079/2010

Mexico: Further information: Mexican activist freed but then ...
2 September 2010

Mexican Indigenous rights activist and prisoner of conscience Raúl Hernández was released on 27 August after more than two years in prison. However, in the days ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/064/2010