http://www.amnesty.org/en/related_information/feed/2075/2060/1910 Download Documents from Amnesty International en 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/news-and-updates/good-news/sahrawi-human-rights-activist-returns-home-after-hunger-strike-2009121 Aminatou Haidar, a Sahrawi activist who has spent the pastmonth on hunger strike, has returned home and beenreunited with her children. Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE13/130/2009/en Maryam Rostampour and Marzieh Amirizadeh Esmaeilabad, two Iranian female converts to Christianity, were released from Evin Prison on 18 November 2009. Both have been acquitted of “acting against state security” but continue to face other charges relating to their conversion. Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/sahrawi-activist-hunger-strike-lanzarote-airport-admitted-hospital-20091217 Aminatou Haidar has been on hunger strike since 15 November after she was expelled from Western Sahara by the Moroccan authorities. Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR34/010/2009/es Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR34/010/2009/en Killings by members of the police, or by clandestine groups in which former or serving members of the police are believed to be involved, continue to be reported in Guatemala. The circumstances surrounding some of the deaths suggest that they may have been extrajudicial executions. Illustrated by the case st Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/saudi-arabia-must-not-flog-75-year-old-woman-20091215 Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi and two younger men, face up to 40 lashes and imprisonment for being in the company of members of the opposite sex who are not close relatives. Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE23/037/2009/en According to a report in the al-Riyadh newspaper, the Saudi Arabian Minister of Interior has ordered that sentences of flogging and imprisonment imposed on a 75-year-old Syrian woman and two Saudi Arabian men be carried out. Flogging violates the absolute prohibition against torture and other ill-treatment; Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/feature/women-on-the-frontline-for-human-rights-20091210 To mark World Human Rights Day, Amnesty International spoke to threewomen who put their lives on the line in defence of human rights. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/appeals-for-action/morocco-must-allow-human-rights-activist-aminatou-haidar-return-home Aminatou Haidar has been on hunger strike in Lanzarote airport since 15 November, after Moroccan authorities confiscated her passport and expelled her from the country. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:00 +0000 Amnesty International