UA: 51/10 Index: MDE 13/030/2010 Issue Date: 09 March 2010

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Football journalist Abdollah Sadoughi was arrested in the city of Tabriz, north-west Iran, on 18 January, after publishing a poster supporting the city’s Traktor Sazi football team. He is held without charge at Tabriz prison, and is on hunger strike in protest at what he considers to be his baseless detention. He is a prisoner of conscience, held for peacefully expressing his views. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 38/10 Index: AMR 25/002/2010

At least six members of a coalition of Cuban civil society organizations have been detained to prevent them from taking part in events to mark the anniversary of the coalition's foundation. Two are still in detention. [ 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: 26/10 Index: MDE 24/001/2010

Four Kurdish political activists were detained on 26 December in Syria, and have been held incommunicado since then. They are at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 11/10 Index: ASA 17/006/2010

Zhao Shiying, independent writer and detained signatory of Charter 08, was released and returned home on 25 January 2010. He remains under surveillance by police.

Zhao Shiying (better known by his pen name Zhao Dagong) had been taken from his home in the city of Shenzhen, near Hong Kong, by police on 11 January. He has signed Charter 08, a proposal for fundamental legal and political reform in China that aims to achieve a democratic system that respects human rights [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 246/09 Index: MDE 31/003/2010 Issue Date: 19 January 2010.

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Yemen's Minister of Information has announced that the Yemeni authorities are holding journalist Muhammad al-Maqalih. However, the authorities are still refusing to give any information about him, including his whereabouts. He is at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 11/10 Index: ASA 17/003/2010 Issue Date: 14 January 2010

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Zhao Shiying (better known by his pen name Zhao Dagong), a writer who has called for democratic reform in China, was taken from his home in the city of Shenzhen, near Hong Kong, by police on 11 January. He is a prisoner of conscience, and is at risk of torture or other ill-treatment. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: IX/10 Index: AMR 41/006/2010 Issue Date: 12 January 2010

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The army arrested three people in northern Mexico, for reasons unclear, on 29 December. Their fate and whereabouts are unknown and they may have been subjected to enforced disappearance. Human rights defenders working on their behalf may also be at risk, as another activist working on abuses by the military was murdered on 3 January. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 04/10 Index: EUR 44/001/2010 Issue Date: 07 January 2010

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Conscientious objector Enver Aydemir was arrested by police on 24 December 2009 in Istanbul while on his way to a conference on the right to conscientious objection. Amnesty International considers him a prisoner of conscience and is concerned about reports that he has been beaten in prison. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 346/09 Index: AMR 53/009/2009 Issue Date: 23 December 2009

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Richard Blanco, a male local government official from Caracas, the capital of Venezuela, is being detained in a prison in Caracas without any evidence of him having committed a crime. His detention appears to be politically motivated. [ Lire la suite » ]