UA: 27/12 Index: MDE 14/003/2012 Issue Date: 27 January 2012

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 8 MARCH 2012 TO DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIVES OF IRAQ IN YOUR COUNTRY AND ADDRESSED. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 26/12 Index: 23/004/2012 Issue Date: 26 January 2012

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 8 MARCH 2012.
Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.

On 23 January, an attempted kidnapping took place of Blanca Nubia Diaz in Bogotá, Colombia. She is seeking justice for the rape and killing of her daughter Irina del Carmen Villero Díaz by paramilitaries. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 22/12 Index: AMR 37/001/2012 Issue Date: 24 January 2012

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 6 MARCH 2012.
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A Honduran human rights defender and blogger, based in the capital, Tegucigalpa, has received death threats by phone and text message. Her life could be at risk. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 208/11 Index: MDE 23/015/2011 Issue Date: 06 July 2011

Two women who were detained after being arrested at a protest in the Saudi Arabian capital, Riyadh, on 3 July were released on 5 July.

Rima bint Abdul Rahman al-Jareesh and Sharifa al-Saqa’abi were released in the early evening on 5 July. Rima bint Abdul Rahman al-Jareesh was reported to have been released after a male guardian was told to act as a guarantor for her release. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 196/11 Index: MDE 13/063/2011 Issue Date: 23 June 2011

Iranian human rights activist, Mansoureh Behkish, was arrested on 12 June 2011. She is a member of the ‘Mourning Mothers’ group, which campaigns against human rights violations such as unlawful killings, arbitrary arrests, torture, and enforced disappearances. She is at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 74/11 Index: AMR 23/005/2011

Human rights defender Nancy Fiallo Araque has in the past few months received repeated telephone death threats and has been followed in Bogotá, Colombia. She and other human rights defenders have been following judicial proceedings involving politicians suspected of having illegal links with paramilitaries. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA 95/10 Index: ASA 17/008/2011 Issue Date: 24 February 2011

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 7 APRIL .
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Mao Hengfeng, a Shanghai-based human rights defender, was released from Re-education Through Labour (RTL) on medical parole on 22 February. On 24 February she was sent back to RTL on the grounds of having violated the terms for medical parole. She is at risk of torture. [ Lire la suite » ]

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

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 04 OCTOBER 2010 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.

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 132/10 Index: AMR 41/43/2010 Issue date: 16 June 2010

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 28 JULY 2010 .
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Heavily armed policemen forced their way into a Mexican women's shelter on 9 June. This has threatened the safety and security of the women inside, many of whom were hiding there from violent partners. [ Lire la suite » ]

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 » ]