UA: 28/12 Index: AMR 37/002/2012 Issue Date: 26 January 2012

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Honduran journalist Gilda Silvestrucci has received death threats by phone. In recent weeks she has been campaigning for justice for Honduran journalists who have been threatened, attacked or killed as a consequence of their work, often exposing human rights violations. Her safety could be at risk. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 252/11 Index: MDE 24/008/2012 Issue Date: 25 January 2012

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Syrian reporter ‘Adel Walid Kharsa was released on 9 January 2011 after over two months in incommunicado detention following his arrest in the city of Hama, central Syria, on 31 October 2011. His brother, ‘Imad Walid Kharsa, appears to have been subjected to enforced disappearance and is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 231/10 Index: AFR 54/040/2010 Issue Date: 13 December 2011

On 13 December, charges against human rights activist Abdelrahman Adam Abdelrahman and journalist Jaafar Alsabki Ibrahim were dropped following orders from the Sudanese Minister of Justice. [ Lire la suite » ]

This is the first update of UA 327/11. Further information: www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AFR65/003/2011/en

The two journalists from newspaper The Destiny, arrested in early November, have been released without charge.

Ngor Garang, The Destiny's editor-in-chief, had been arrested on 1 November when he went to a meeting with the Director General of South Sudan's National Security Services (NSS). A journalist working for the The Destiny, Dengdit Ayok, was arrested by NSS personnel four days later, at the newspaper's offices. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 261/10 Index: EUR 60/011/2011 Issue Date: 19 October 2011

On 14 October 2011, a court in the northern city of Khujand in the Soghd region, Tajikistan, found journalist, Makhmadyusuf Ismoilov, guilty of the charges brought against him of libel, insult and inciting hatred. He will be appealing against the verdict. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 211/11 Index: EUR 60/012/2011 Issue Date: 19 October 2011

On 14 October, a court in northern city of Khujand in the Soghd region, Tajikistan, found BBC journalist, Urunboy Usmonov, guilty of charges brought against him, which implicate him in criminal activities related to banned religious groups.

Tajik journalist Urunboy Usmonov was sentenced to three years' imprisonment on 14 October but released immediately under an amnesty. He will be appealing against the verdict. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 270/11 Index: ASA 33/017/2011 Issue Date: 13 October 2011

Pakistani journalist Rehmatullah Darpakhel, who was abducted on 11 August 2011, was released on 12 October and is now recovering with his family.
On the afternoon of 11 August 2011, journalist Rehmatullah Darpakhel was abducted by unknown men as he shopped for groceries in his home town of Miran Shah in North Waziristan, in north-western Pakistan. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 262/11 Index: AMR 41/057/2011 Issue Date: 22 September 2011

Two Mexicans who had been detained and charged with terrorism and sabotage after being accused of posting messages on Twitter and Facebook have been released without charge.

Local journalist, María de Jesús Bravo Pagola (known as Maruchi) and teacher Gilberto Martínez Vera were released on 21 September without charge after the state governor ordered the prosecution to be ceased. [ Lire la suite » ]

This is the first update of UA: 266/11 Index: MDE 24/051/2011 Issue Date: 8 September 2011

Mohammed Hasan al-Labwani was released on 6 September after being referred to an investigating judge. His next hearing has been scheduled for 8 October. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 132/11 Index: ASA 41/002/2011 Issue Date: 10 May 2011

The lawyer and family of popular Vietnamese blogger Nguyen Hoang Hai, also known as Dieu Cay, have not been allowed to visit him in prison for six months. There are concerns for his health, as they have also been prevented from sending him food and medicine. Despite completing a 30-month prison sentence in October 2010, he was detained for further investigation on charges of “conducting propaganda” against the state. [ Lire la suite » ]