UA: 191/10 Index: ASA 37/013/2010 Issue Date: 02 September 2010

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Sri Lankan brothers Balapuwaduge Sumith Suresh Kumara Mendis and Balapuwaduge Indika Prasath Mendis, asylum seekers deported from Australia in October 2009, are at risk of torture and of attack from other inmates at Negombo prison, on Sri Lanka's west coast. A third prisoner, Lasantha Wijeratne, is also at risk. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 128/09 Index: EUR 46/031/2010 Issue Date: 02 September 2010

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Further information on UA: 175/10 Index: EUR 44/019/2010

Turkish prisoner of conscience İnan S. has been moved to a prison in the western coastal city of İzmir, where he is now held pending trial on charges of "infringement of leave". When serving a previous sentence for "desertion" at the same prison, he reported being beaten by prison guards. He is at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 190/10 Index: ASA 17/036/2010

HIV/AIDS activist Tian Xi has been detained since 17 August, in the central Chinese province of Henan, to stop him lobbying the authorities on behalf of people infected with HIV/AIDS through official malpractice. He is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 222/09 Index: MDE 24/020/2010 Issue Date: 17 August 2010

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‘Abdelbaqi Khalaf is being tortured or otherwise ill-treated, according to reliable sources. Every few weeks, they say, he is taken from Damascus Central prison in ‘Adra, northern Damascus, to a branch of State Security, where officers are trying to force him to “confess” to something which he maintains is not true. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 135/10 Index: EUR 58/011/2010 Issue Date: 05 August 2010

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The authorities in Kyrgyzstan have refused to open an investigation into allegations that prisoner of conscience Azimzhan Askarov has been tortured. He should be released immediately. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 169/10 Index: ASA 21/016/2010 Issue Date: 4 August 2010

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At least ten political activists in detention in the Indonesian province of Maluku are at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. They were arrested for planning peaceful political activities. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 222/09 Index: MDE 24/019/2010 Issue Date: 03 August 2010

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‘Abdelbaqi Khalaf is being tortured or otherwise ill-treated, according to reliable sources. Every few weeks, they say, he is taken from Damascus Central prison in ‘Adra, northern Damascus, to a branch of State Security, where officers are trying to force him to “confess” to a crime he maintains he did not commit. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 262/09 Index: ASA 17/033/2010 Issue Date: 02 August 2010

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FU on UA: 95/10 Index: ASA 17/031/2010 Issue Date: 27 July 2010

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China: At her appeal on 21 July, Chinese activist Mao Hengfeng said that she has been severely beaten at the Anhui Provincial Women’s Re-education Through Labour (RTL) facility over the past three months. She remains at high risk of further torture and other ill-treatment. [ Lire la suite » ]