http://www.amnesty.org/en/related_information/feed/2050/2057/2058/1927 Download Documents from Amnesty International en 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/AMR46/019/2009/en Two men were shot dead by police on 2 December 2009, in their village in north-western Peru, during a search for another man. Other people in the area are in danger of being killed by police in similar operations, unless the government orders the police to review their use of lethal force. Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR53/009/2009/en Richard Blanco, a male local government official from Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, is being detained in a prison in Caracas without any evidence of him having committed a crime. His detention appears to be politically motivated. Wed, 23 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/EUR46/030/2009/en Georgi Nakani, a 21-year-old man from village of Neitrino in the Russian Federation Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria in the North Caucasus, was abducted by unidentified men at around midnight on 15 December. He was shot at, pushed into a car and driven away. His whereabouts are unknown and Amnesty Internationa Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/lithuania-admits-existence-secret-prison-20091222 A Lithuanian parliamentary committee has concluded that a CIA secret prisonoperated in Lithuania during the US-led “war on terror”. Tue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR19/022/2009/en 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/AMR41/066/2009/en Armando Mendoza Ponce, a 65-year-old male environmental campaigner in Mexico, was threatened with death and other campaigners had stones thrown at them while they prepared for a visit by Mexican parliamentarians in the village of Cerro San Pedro, San Luis Potosi state. 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