FU on UA: 36/10 Index: MDE 13/024/2010 Issue Date: 9 March 2010

Iranian environmental activist and interpreter Mahfarid Mansourian was released on bail on 21 February, after two weeks’ detention. Amnesty International does not know the precise conditions of her release on bail and she may face charge and trial in the future. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 48/10 Index: AMR 41/017/2010 Issue Date: 4 March 2010

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Lawyer Ernesto Rábago Martínez was shot and killed in his office in Chihuahua City, northern Mexico. He and his female partner, Estela Ángeles Mondragón, had previously been threatened and attacked because of their legal work for an Indigenous community involved in a land dispute. Estela Ángeles Mondragón and her daughter are in grave danger. [ Lire la suite » ]

FU on UA: 30/10 Index: MDE 13/025/2010

Student and women’s rights activist Somayeh Rashidi was released from Evin Prison, Tehran, on 25 February 2010. Amnesty International is not aware of the precise conditions of her release, but she may face charge and trial in the future. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 42/10 Index: MDE 24/003/2010 Issue Date: 19 February 2010

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Usra al-Hassani, a 35-year-old Syrian woman, has been held incommunicado for nearly two months. She is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 39/10 Index: MDE 24/002/2010 Issue Date: 18 February 2010

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Raghdah Sa’id Hassan, a 38-year-old female Syrian writer, has been held incommunicado since she was arrested on 10 February. She may be a prisoner of conscience, detained solely for the peaceful exercise of her right to freedom of expression. She is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 301/09 Index: AMR 23/007/2010 Issue Date: 12 February 2010

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A gunman has intimidated a woman (name known to Amnesty International) who has worked with human rights activist Ingrid Vergara, in the city of Sincelejo in northern Colombia. Both women are in danger, as are other members of the organization Ingrid Vergara works for. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 33/10 Index: AMR 41/012/2010 Issue Date: 11 February 2010

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Two Indigenous women from Mexico, detained for three years for a crime they did not commit, will learn within the next few weeks whether their sentences will be confirmed or overturned. They are prisoners of conscience and should be released immediately. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 29/10 Index: AMR 23/004/2010 Issue Date: 04 February 2010

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A Colombian paramilitary group has threatened to kill the members of a women's human rights organization. The threat declares them a military target and says there is a plan to kill them all. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 21/10 Index: MDE 13/011/2010 Issue Date: 22 January 2010

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Behrang Tonekaboni, a male music journalist, and his mother Lily Farhadpour, along with Behrang Tonekaboni’s male colleague Kayvan Farzin, have been detained at an unknown location since their arrests in Iran’s capital, Tehran, earlier this month. They appear to have been subjected to enforced disappearance and are at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 19/10 Index: AMR 41/010/2010 Issue Date: 21 January 2010

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Members of Taller de Desarrollo Comunitario (Community Development Worskhop, TADECO) a community development and human rights organization in Chilpancingo, capital of Guerrero state, southern Mexico, have received death threats and have been followed. The Mexican authorities have offered no protection to the activists. [ Lire la suite » ]