UA: 339/09 Index: AMR 53/008/2009

Human rights defender Mijail Martínez was shot dead on 26 November in Venezuela. He was working on a documentary film that featured the stories of people who have suffered human rights violations at the hands of police officers. There are concerns for the safety of his family and of his colleagues. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 338/09 Index: MDE 21/005/2009

Palestinian Autority: Human rights defender denied medical care
Saed Yassin, a male Palestinian human rights defender, has been detained without proper judicial process by the Palestinian Authority in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. He is being denied medical care even though he is suffering from a painful and undiagnosed condition. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 337/09 Index: AMR 53/007/2009 Issue Date: 15 December 2009

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The lives of Oscar Barrios' family are in danger. He and his family have been subjected to a campaign of intimidation from police officers in northern Venezuela, since 2003. Oscar Barrios was killed on October 28, 2009 and follows the killing of three other male members of the Barrios family. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 331/09 Index: ASA 31/012/2009

Army Major Niranjan Basnet has not been arrested on his return to Nepal. Despite instructions from the Prime Minister that he be arrested, military police escorted him to the army's headquarters in the capital, Kathmandu. The army is believed to be waiting for a decision from its Chief of Staff on whether to surrender Major Basnet to a civilian court. This decision is expected around 19 December. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 336/09 Index: ASA 17/071/2009

Noor-Ul-Islam Sherbaz, a 17-year old boy, has been held incommunicado since 27 July in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in western China. He is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment and his family fear for his life. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 71/09 Index: MDE 23/037/2009 Issue Date: 14 December 2009

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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; the three will be prisoners of conscience if they are imprisoned. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 335/09 Index: EUR 46/029/2009 Issue Date: 11 December 2009

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The lives of Adnan Ibragimov, a 54-year-old man from Chechnya in the Russian Federation, and his family are in danger after he began pursuing a criminal investigation into the apparent enforced disappearance of his nephew, Said-Salekh Ibragimov. [ Lire la suite » ]