Action complémentaire sur l’AU 227/11, MDE 11/068/2011, 21 décembre 2011

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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 » ]

Further information on UA: 227/11 Index: MDE 11/043/2011 Issue Date: 23 August 2011

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The former president and vice-president of the Bahrain Teachers’ Association (BTA), who were detained at the end of March, will be tried before a military court on 29 August. Amnesty International believes they may be prisoners of conscience. [ Lire la suite » ]

FU UA: 249/10 Index: MDE 23/003/2011

Law professor Dr Mohammed ‘Abdullah al-‘Abdulkareem was released on 15 February. He was arrested in relation to an article he wrote about the Saudi Arabian royal family and the future of Saudi Arabia which was posted on his Facebook page. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 214/09 Index: MDE 13/055/2010

Behzad Nabavi and Kian Tajbakhsh remain at liberty after they were released temporarily on bail.
Behzad Nabavi, a former parliamentarian, who had been released for 20 days for medical treatment on 16 March 2010, has not yet been returned to prison. He is serving a five-year prison sentence after being convicted of “acting against national security”. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 233/09 Index: MDE 13/027/2010

Dr Mohammad Maleki was released on bail on 1 March 2010. He had spent 191 days detained in Evin Prison, Tehran apparently for his criticism of the conduct of the disputed presidential election in 2009. It is possible that he may still be charged and tried.
He has diabetes, heart problems and prostate cancer, and cannot walk unaided. His family had publicly expressed concern on 20 February that they had not been given permission to visit him for 20 days and that they feared his life was in danger. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 02/10 Index: AMR 37/001/2010

An academic who ran for parliament has received death threats, days after another activist was abducted and killed. Rafael Cáceres had spoken out against the coup that installed a new government in Honduras in June. [ Lire la suite » ]