UA: 37/12 Index: AFR 54/006/2012 Issue Date: 06 February 2012

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Six members of the student-led movement Girifna were arrested on 25 January, after taking part in a public forum on human rights. They are at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. [ Lire la suite » ]

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

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UA: 23/12 Index: MDE 15/002/2012 Issue Date: 25 January 2012

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The Speaker of the Palestinian parliament, Aziz Dweik, has been placed under administrative detention following his arrest on 19 January. This allows the Israeli authorities to detain him indefinitely without charge or trial. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 1/12 Index: AFR 54/002/2012 Issue Date: 17 January 2012

Political activist Mohamed Hassan Alim was released without charge on 16 January 2012 after being held incommunicado for 22 days. He was not told why he had been arrested, but believes it was for publicly criticizing a prominent government official. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 345/11 Index: MDE 24/003/2012 Issue Date: 17 January 2012

Syrian student Suhaib al-Ammar was released without charge on 10 January 2012, following his arrest by Syrian Air Force Intelligence officials on 18 November 2011. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 350/11 Index: ASA 20/049/2011 Issue Date: 6 December 2011

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A community medical doctor from Tamil Nadu in southern India, Dr V Pugazhendhi, is facing detention without charge and trial and death threats from the police, because he has warned people of the harmful health impacts of radiation from nuclear installations. [ Lire la suite » ]

This is the first update of UA 327/11. Further information: www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AFR65/003/2011/en

The two journalists from newspaper The Destiny, arrested in early November, have been released without charge.

Ngor Garang, The Destiny's editor-in-chief, had been arrested on 1 November when he went to a meeting with the Director General of South Sudan's National Security Services (NSS). A journalist working for the The Destiny, Dengdit Ayok, was arrested by NSS personnel four days later, at the newspaper's offices. [ Lire la suite » ]

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: 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: 115/11 Index: ASA 20/015/2011 Issue Date: 14 April 2011

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Murtaza Manzoor has been held in administrative detention since 8 February by police in Jammu and Kashmir, India. His official birth certificate states that he is only 17 years old. [ Lire la suite » ]