UA: 191/10 Index: ASA 37/013/2010 Issue Date: 02 September 2010

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Sri Lankan brothers Balapuwaduge Sumith Suresh Kumara Mendis and Balapuwaduge Indika Prasath Mendis, asylum seekers deported from Australia in October 2009, are at risk of torture and of attack from other inmates at Negombo prison, on Sri Lanka's west coast. A third prisoner, Lasantha Wijeratne, is also at risk. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 190/10 Index: ASA 17/036/2010

HIV/AIDS activist Tian Xi has been detained since 17 August, in the central Chinese province of Henan, to stop him lobbying the authorities on behalf of people infected with HIV/AIDS through official malpractice. He is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 189/10 Index: AMR 51/078/2010 Issue Date: 27 August 2010

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Cal Brown, a 52-year-old man, is scheduled to be executed in Washington State, USA, on 10 September after over 16 years on death row. This would be the state’s first execution for nine years, its first “non-consensual” execution since 1994, and only its fifth execution since 1963. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 187/10 Index: AMR 41/061/2010 Issue Date: 27 August 2010

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Armed men have assaulted and threatened independent trade unionists Cándido Corona Barruecos and Virgilio Meléndez Montiel at the factory where they work, in the central Mexican state of Puebla. Members of a non-governmental labour rights organization supporting the trade unionists have received death threats. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 188/10 Index: MDE 24/023/2010 Issue Date: 26 August 2010

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A Syrian Kurdish man has been held incommunicado since 19 August, after he was forcibly returned to Syria from Norway. He is in grave danger of torture. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 186/10 Index: AMR 25/013/2010 Issue Date: 25 August 2010

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Five men, all members of a pro-democracy organization in Cuba have been detained in connection with their political beliefs and activities. They have been held by police since 12 August, and have not had access to a lawyer. It is unclear if they have been charged. They could be facing an unfair trial. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: Index: AMR 23/027/2010 Issue Date: 23 August 2010

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A member of an Afro-descendant community in Colombia has been subjected to enforced disappearance, and possibly killed, by paramilitaries. The rest of the community are in grave danger. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 184/10 Index: ASA 13/008/2010 Issue Date: 23 August 2010

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In recent weeks, police have detained at least 21 garment factory employees and labour rights activists following violent street protests in and around the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka. They are at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. Some workers and activists have gone into hiding. Several others have said that they or their relatives have received death threats from security forces. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 183/10 Index: MDE 13/084/2010 Issue Date: 20 August 2010.

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Juvenile offender Ebrahim Hamidi, now aged 18, has been sentenced to death for allegedly sexually assaulting a man two years ago, when he was 16. He has retracted his “confession”, saying he made it under coercion. He is at risk of execution and currently without a lawyer. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA:182/10 Index: EUR 56/005/2010 Issue Date: 20 August 2010

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