UA: 48/10 Index: AMR 41/017/2010 Issue Date: 4 March 2010

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Lawyer Ernesto Rábago Martínez was shot and killed in his office in Chihuahua City, northern Mexico. He and his female partner, Estela Ángeles Mondragón, had previously been threatened and attacked because of their legal work for an Indigenous community involved in a land dispute. Estela Ángeles Mondragón and her daughter are in grave danger. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further Information on UA: 16/10 Index: AMR 41/015/2010

Margarita Martínez, the wife of community activist Adolfo Guzmán Ordaz, was abducted, beaten and threatened on 25 February. She and Adolfo Guzmán had previously received death threats after filing a complaint against police. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 37/10 Index: AFR 62/004/2010 Issue Date: 16 February 2010

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A man arrested for his supposed involvement in what the National Intelligence Agency (Agence Nationale de Renseignements, ANR) claim was a plot to assassinate the president is being detained incommunicado. The ANR are apparently extorting money from his family and friends. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 35/10 Index: MDE 12/008/2010 Issue Date: 16 February 2010

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200 families in Manshiyet Nasser, an informal settlement east of Cairo, Egypt, are in imminent danger of serious injury or death because of a high risk of rock fall. The authorities have so far failed to relocate them. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 13/10 Index: AMR 53/001/2010 Issue Date: 15 January 2010

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Franklin Brito Rodríguez, a farmer, went missing from a military hospital in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, on 9 January. Staff at the hospital, where he is being treated for the effects of a hunger strike, are said to have sedated him and taken him from his bed. There has been no news of his whereabouts since then. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 08/10 Index: AMR 37/002/2010

A radio station which promotes the rights of Afro-descendant communities in eastern Honduras, had all its equipment destroyed on 6 January. The radio station staff are in danger. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 01/10 Index: AMR 41/005/2010 Issue Date: 05 January 2010

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Josefina Reyes, a female human rights defender, was shot and killed on 3 January by unidentified gunmen in Mexico. She had protested at scores of abuses committed by the military deployed in the area to fight organized crime. The lives of other human rights defenders are at risk. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 343/09 Index: AMR 46/019/2009 Issue Date: 23 December 2009

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Two men were shot dead by police on 2 December, in their village in north-western Peru, during a search for another man. Other people in the area are in danger of being killed by police in similar operations, unless the government orders the police to review their use of lethal force. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 339/09 Index: AMR 53/008/2009

Human rights defender Mijail Martínez was shot dead on 26 November in Venezuela. He was working on a documentary film that featured the stories of people who have suffered human rights violations at the hands of police officers. There are concerns for the safety of his family and of his colleagues. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 337/09 Index: AMR 53/007/2009 Issue Date: 15 December 2009

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The lives of Oscar Barrios' family are in danger. He and his family have been subjected to a campaign of intimidation from police officers in northern Venezuela, since 2003. Oscar Barrios was killed on October 28, 2009 and follows the killing of three other male members of the Barrios family. [ Lire la suite » ]