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Documentary filmmaker Elena Varela López was released on 13 August, after more than three months in custody. She is now subject to aresto domiciliario nocturna ...
Urgent Action AMR 22/002/2008
DEFENDING HUMAN RIGHTS IN A CHANGING WORLD. Everyone has the right, individually and in association with others, to promote and to ...
Report ACT 30/006/2008
The three students of Amir Kabir University in Tehran, Ahmad Qasaban, Majid Tavakkoli and Ehsan Mansouri, were released on 13 August 2008. It is not clear whether ...
Urgent Action MDE 13/125/2008
After eight alleged members of the Justice and Equality Movement were sentenced to death by Sudan's Anti-Terrorism Special Courts, the government prepares to try ...
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Political activist Mesha'l al-Tammo, who is a member of Syria’s Kurdish minority, has not been seen since the early hours of 15 August 2008, when he set off from ...
Urgent Action MDE 24/026/2008
Mahboubeh Karami was charged within the past week with "acting against national security," and the Revolutionary Court in Mahabad has scheduled her next hearing ...
Urgent Action MDE 13/119/2008
Primary school teacher Dante Valdez was attacked on 13 August by a group of about 30 people. The attackers, most of whom work for a local mine, pushed and kicked ...
Urgent Action AMR 41/036/2008
Amnesty International is campaigning for the federal and state authorities to adopt the measures required to comply with the principles of new federal legislation ...
ActionDocument AMR 41/035/2008
Kurdish women's rights activist Zeynab Bayzeydi has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment, and internal exile to the Turkish-speaking city of Zanjan, 246 km ...
Urgent Action MDE 13/116/2008
On 13 and 14 August 2008 in the US Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a military judge considered pre-trial issues in the case of Mohammed Jawad, an Afghan national ...
Report AMR 51/094/2008
