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Urgent Action AMR 25/003/2008
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Urgent Action MDE 13/130/2008
Amnesty International calls on the government of the UK to givethe lawyers for Binyam Mohamed, a former UK resident imprisoned atGuantánamo Bay, information which ...
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Urgent Action MDE 13/128/2008
On 26 August 2008, political activist Mesha'l al-Tammo was transferred from a detention centre run by the Political Security Branch in the capital, Damascus, to ...
Urgent Action MDE 24/027/2008
On 23 August 2008, Kurdish women’s rights activist Zeynab Bayzeydi had her four year sentence of imprisonment and internal exile upheld by an appeal court in West ...
Urgent Action MDE 13/129/2008
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Urgent Action AMR 25/001/2008
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