http://www.amnesty.org/en/related_information/feed/2035/2135/1892 Download Documents from Amnesty International en http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/NWS21/006/2008/en Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR37/001/2008/en Santos Feliciano Aguilar Álvares, a member of the Afro-descendant Garífuna community of San Juan, was abducted, beaten and threatened with death on 5 June 2008 by up to 10 men, allegedly private security guards working for a local real estate company. A few hours before the incident, he had taken part in a Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR51/057/2008/en Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR22/001/2008/en Documentary filmmaker Elena Varela López is being held in Rancagua Prison, central Chile. She is currently filming a documentary which she has been researching for the last four years, on the conflict between lumber companies and Chile's Mapuche Indigenous people, over the use of land. Amnesty International Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR41/023/2008/en The municipal authorities of the mainly indigenous Mixteca municipality of Santo Domingo Ixcatlán, in Oaxaca state, are preparing to sell off an area of communal land. Local people opposed to the sale have been attacked by armed men working for a local political boss (cacique) closely connected to the munic Fri, 16 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR19/007/2008/en Around 50 Guajajara indigenous families, in the remote Araribóia reservation in the central west of Maranhão state, are at risk of attack from local gunmen allegedly contracted by illegal loggers and the local population who are opposed to the indigenous presence. Mon, 12 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA12/002/2008/en In this document Amnesty International submits information to the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in advance of its pre-sessional working group meeting on 19-23 May 2008, during which Australia’s Fourth Periodic Report will be considered. The briefing identifies issues that have arisen fr Thu, 01 May 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR41/019/2008/en Ten inmates of “Los Llanos” state prison, in San Cristobal de las Casas, in the southern state of Chiapas, have been attacked and severely beaten by other prisoners, reportedly with the consent of the prison authorities. According to a local human rights organization, the attack was in reprisal for the p Fri, 25 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR41/011/2008/en Five members of the indigenous rights organization Me Phaa Indigenous People’s Organization were arrested on 18 April 2008 in the town of Ayutla de los Libres, Guerrero State. All are in danger of torture and ill-treatment in custody. AI believes the local authorities may be targeting them solely because o Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR51/029/2008/en This is a summary of the report about Omar Khadr, a Canadian national, who has been in US military detention for approaching six years. Taken into custody in July 2002 when he was 15 years old, he is now facing a “war crimes” trial by a military commission the procedures of which do not comply with inter Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International