UA: 8/12 Index: ASA 20/002/2012 Issue Date: 12 January 2012

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 23 FEBRUARY 2012 .
Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. [ Lire la suite » ]

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

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 17 JANUARY 2012.
Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.

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 third update of UA 165/11.

No further appeals are requested at present. Many thanks to all those who sent appeals.

Ramesh Agrawal, one of the two human rights defenders and environmental rights campaigners who has spent two months in the state of Chhattisgarh, was released on bail on the night of 12 August. He and Dr Harihar Patel had been arrested on false charges on 28 May. [ Lire la suite » ]

FU UA: 136/11 Index: ASA 20/029/2011 Issue Date: 20 June 2011

Many thanks to those who sent appeals. No further action is required from the UA network.

Nineteen-year-old Zaffar Shafi Hakeem was released from police custody on the evening of 18 June, after local media highlighted Amnesty International’s urgent action appeal. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 147/11 Index: ASA 20/020/2011 Issue Date: 20 May 2011

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 1 JULY 2011 .
Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date. [ Lire la suite » ]

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

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 26 MAY 2011 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.

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 » ]

FU on UA: 239/10 Index: ASA 20/004/2011

Mushtaq Ahmad Sheikh, a child aged 14, was detained without charge or trial in India for nearly ten months. He was finally released from administrative detention on 10 February 2011. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 172/10 Index: ASA 20/022/2010 Issue Date: 12 August 2010

Lado Sikaka, a leader of the Dongria Kondh Indigenous communities in India, was released on 12 August, two days after being abducted. Sana Sikaka, another leader who was abducted at the same time, was released on 11 August. [ Lire la suite » ]