Further Information on UA: 15/09 Index: AMR 41//011/2010

Armed men hired by a local landowning family threatened to kill a man living in an area called Lomas del Poleo, Chihuahua state, northern Mexico, on 2 February. The inhabitants of Lomas del Poleo are at risk of further such attacks. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 13/10 Index: AMR 53/002/2010 Issue Date: 26 January 2010

Farmer Franklin Brito Rodríguez has now been returned to his bed on a regular ward of the military hospital in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, where he is being treated for the effects of a hunger strike. His family are able to visit him. [ Lire la suite » ]

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

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 26 FEBRUARY 2010.
Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.

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

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 4 FEBRUARY 2010 .
Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.

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 » ]

Further information on UA: 15/09 Index: AMR 41/065/2009 Issue Date: 10 December 2009

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 21 JANUARY 2010 .
Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date

A woman living in the Lomas del Poleo area of Chihuahua state, northern Mexico, was shot and injured on 4 December. Those living in Lomas del Poleo, particularly those representing local inhabitants in a dispute with landowners, are at risk of further acts of intimidation and attack. [ Lire la suite » ]