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: 149/11 Index: MDE 24/020/2011 Issue Date: 23 May 2011

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Syrian brothers, ‘Abd al-Rahman Hammada and Wa’el Hammada, have been detained incommunicado at an unknown location since 30 April and 12 May respectively. They are at grave risk of torture and other ill-treatment. [ Lire la suite » ]

Index: MDE 19/017/2011 - Update on UA: 104/11

Four men, Zeyad Ramadan, Ghazi Ramadan, Khaled Sury and another unnamed man, were released at 9:30pm on 25 April. They had been held incommunicado from 19 March.

On 19 March, a group of men believed to be Internal Security Agency officials, broke down the door of the house where Zeyad Ramadan and Ghazi Ramadan, who are brothers, were living in Western Tripoli, according to relatives who live outside Libya. They arrested them, along with their two guests, father of four, Khaled Sury and another unnamed man. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 112/11 Index: MDE 14/021/2011 Issue Date: 13 April 2011

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Six Iranian residents of Camp Ashraf, north of Baghdad, have been detained since they were arrested at the camp on 8 April and not permitted contact with their families or lawyers. They were beaten and injured. Amnesty International fears for their safety. [ Lire la suite » ]

FU UA: 28/11 Index: AFR 23/002/2011

Jean-Paul Noel Abdi, the president of the Djiboutian League of Human Rights (la Ligue djiboutienne des droits humains, LDDH), was granted provisional liberty on 21 February 2011 on health grounds. He remains charged with participation in an insurrectional movement after he investigated and reported on arrests following recent student protests in the Republic of Djibouti, in the Horn of Africa. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 204/09 Index: AFR 29/008/2010 Issue Date: 07 May 2010

Four soldiers held in Guinea since January 2009, were released on 7 April after 15 months of detention. No charge was ever held against them.

Colonel Soryba Yansané, Lieutenant Colonel David Syllah, Commander Pathio Bangourah and Sergeant Moussa Sylla were released without charge on 7 April 2010 after 15 months of arbitrary detention. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 316/09 Index: MDE 17/002/2010

Amnesty International has learnt that Kuwaiti journalist Muhammad ‘Abd al-Qader al-Jasem was released on bail on 4 December 2009, 12 days after being detained. He had been held at the Interior Ministry’s Criminal Investigation Department in the Kuwaiti capital, Kuwait City, after criticizing the Kuwaiti Prime Minister, Sheikh Nasser Al Sabah, during a private meeting in October 2009. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 347/09 Index: MDE 13/132/2009 Issue Date: 22 December 2009

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UA: 336/09 Index: ASA 17/071/2009

Noor-Ul-Islam Sherbaz, a 17-year old boy, has been held incommunicado since 27 July in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in western China. He is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment and his family fear for his life. [ Lire la suite » ]