Further information on UA: 299/11 Index: EUR 49/001/2012 Issue Date: 30 January 2012

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Belarusian prisoner of conscience, Andrei Sannikau, met with his wife for the first time in three months on 24 January, when he told her that he had been tortured and that he feared for his life. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 109/11 Index: AFR 17/001/2011 Issue Date: 12 April 2011

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Bernard Zepherin Teyou is a Cameroonian writer, held as a prisoner of conscience for writing a book about the President's wife. His health is significantly deteriorating because of poor prison conditions in New Bell Prison, in Douala, Cameroon's economic capital. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 100/11 Index: MDE 14/016/2011

The Muslim cleric who was detained by police on 29 March was released on 6 April.

Kamran ‘Ali Khwaraham was released on 6 April at noon. For the first five days of his detention he was held incommunicado. He has been accused of involvement in unauthorized demonstrations. He is not known to have been ill-treated.

NO FURTHER ACTION IS REQUESTED FROM THE UA NETWORK. MANY THANKS TO ALL WHO SENT APPEALS.

This is the first update on UA: 100/11. Further information: http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE41/015/2011/en

UA: 70/11 Index: MDE 14/010/2011 Issue Date: 14 March 2011

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Walid Yunis Ahmad faces an unfair trial on 17 March in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq which could lead to his being sentenced to 15 more years in prison. Amnesty International believes that the charges against him have been fabricated. [ 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: 17/10 Index: MDE 13/012/2010 Issue Date: 25 January 2010

URGENT ACTION
Iranian student released on bail
Iranian student Payam Jahangiry was released on bail on 17 January after six weeks’ detention without charge in the city of Shiraz in south-western Iran. He had been arrested two days before nationwide student protests against the government took place on 7 December and had no access to a lawyer during his detention. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 338/09 Index: MDE 21/005/2009

Palestinian Autority: Human rights defender denied medical care
Saed Yassin, a male Palestinian human rights defender, has been detained without proper judicial process by the Palestinian Authority in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. He is being denied medical care even though he is suffering from a painful and undiagnosed condition. [ Lire la suite » ]