http://www.amnesty.org/en/related_information/feed/2032/2040/2042/2045/1908 Download Documents from Amnesty International en http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/eight-bahraini-nationals-released-20080704 Eight male teachers were released without charge in Saudi Arabia on 12 July 2008, after over four months’ detention. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE31/004/2008/en Dr Mohamed al-Saqaf, a lawyer and university lecturer, was arrested on 11 August by security forces at the airport in the capital, Sana’a. He is being held by the National Security forces (al- Amn al-Qawmi) at the Criminal investigation prison in Sana’a, where he is at risk of torture and other ill-treat Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/feature-stories/trapped-collective-punishment-gaza-20080812 The blockade imposed by Israel on the Gaza Strip over a year ago hasleft the population of 1.5 million Palestinians trapped withdwindling resources and an economy in ruins. Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE21/005/2008/en On 7 August 2008, the Ministry of the Interior of the de facto Hamas administration in Gaza announced that its security forces had released 150 of the Palestinian detainees, including senior Fatah leaders. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/feature-stories/no-moving-backwards-myanmar-20080808 Twenty years after the brief flowering of people power in Myanmar,however, little has improved for the millions of people still sufferingunder repressive rule. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR51/090/2008/en Salim Hamdan, the Yemeni national convicted on 6 August 2008 by military commission of ‘providing military support for terrorism’, was sentenced to five and half years. Prosecutors had asked for a 30-year prison sentence. However, his future remains unclear, due largely to the Military Commissions Act. A Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE13/110/2008/en Ya’qoub Mehrnehad, a Baluchi cultural and civil rights activist, was executed on 4 August 2008 after his death sentence was approved by Iran’s prosecutor-general. Ya’qoub Mehrnehad was sentenced to death in February 2008 after an unfair trial. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/hamdan-sentenced-military-commission-20080808 Convicted of  “providing material support for terrorism”, the Yemeni national was sentenced to five and a half years inprison at the first US military commission trial in Guantánamo Bay. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA17/092/2008/en Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE13/109/2008/en Seven members of the Baha’i religious minority have been charged with vaguely worded charges relating to national security. According to press reports, Tehran's deputy prosecutor claimed that they had “confessed” to setting up an illegal organisation in Iran that took orders from Israel and other state Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International