Unfair trial

Urgent action: Mexico. Indigenous rights activist Maximino García Catarino, facing unfair trial

UA: 25/12 Index: AMR 41/007/2012 Issue Date: 25 January 2012

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 14 MARCH 2012.
Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.

A human rights defender of the Na Savi Indigenous people (known in Spanish as Mixteco), has been arrested by state judicial police in south-western Mexico. He is in danger of an unfair trial. [ Lire la suite » ]


 

Urgent action: Belarus. Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzslau Kavalyou at risk of execution

UA: 348/11 Index: EUR 49/025/2011 Issue Date: 2 December 2011

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 13 JANUARY 2012.
Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.

The Belarusian authorities must not execute Dzmitry Kanavalau and Uladzslau Kavalyou, who were sentenced to death on 30 November, following a trial that has failed to meet international fair trial standards. [ Lire la suite » ]


 

Urgent action (bad news): USA. Georgia executes Troy Davis

Further information on UA: 110/11 Index: AMR 51/082/2011 Issue Date: 22 September 2011

Troy Davis was sentenced to death in 1991 for the murder of a police officer and has been on death row since then. He was executed by lethal injection at the Jackson state prison in Georgia, USA, on 21 September, despite serious doubts surrounding his conviction. [ Lire la suite » ]


 

Urgent action (follow-up): Iraq, Walid Yunis Ahmad jailed after unfair trial

Further information on UA: 70/11 Index: MDE 14/011/2011 Issue Date: 18 March 2011

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 29 APRIL 2011 to the KRG representatives in your country. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.

Walid Yunis Ahmad has been sentenced to five years in prison, after an unfair trial. [ Lire la suite » ]


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