http://www.amnesty.org/en/related_information/feed/2042/2014 Download Documents from Amnesty International en http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/iran-must-end-slide-bloodshed-20091228 Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/iran-end-slide-more-bloodshed-20091228 Amnesty International today condemned the further and wholly avoidable loss of up to 8-15 lives in Iran during the ‘Ashoura religious commemorations. The organization called on the authorities to ensure that those attending funerals and commemorations in the coming days and weeks are guaranteed the rig Mon, 28 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/iran-must-allow-peaceful-gatherings-during-%E2%80%98ashoura-20091223 Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA41/013/2009/en A mob with official backing is attempting to evict nearly 200 Buddhist monks and nuns from a monastery in central Viet Nam. The group have been sheltering there since they were evicted from another monastery in September, by a similar mob. Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA17/074/2009/en British national Akmal Shaikh has exhausted all his appeals against his drug-smuggling conviction. According to the UK Foreign Office, he is scheduled to be executed on 29 December 2009. Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE13/133/2009/en Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE13/132/2009/en At least five people, including human rights activists, have been arrested in Iran while on their way to attend the funeral of Grand Ayatollah Hosseinali Montazeri, a senior cleric who criticized the Iranian government’s crackdown on demonstrators in the aftermath of the June contested presidential electio Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE18/010/2009/en Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA41/011/2009/en Prisoner of conscience Father Nguyen Van Ly was returned to prison from hospital on 11 December: he had not fully recovered from a stroke. He is partially paralysed on one side. The prison authorities are not providing him with adequate medical care, and his health is in danger. Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE24/038/2009/en Kurdish lawyer Mustafa Ismail was detained on 12 December 2009 and has been held incommunicado since then. He is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. Mon, 21 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International