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Urgent action (bonne nouvelle): Cuba. Prisoners of conscience freed

Further information on UA: 355/11 Index: AMR 25/002/2012 Issue Date: 23 January 2012

No further action is required. Many thanks to all who sent appeals.

Cuban human right activists Ivonne Malleza Galano and Ignacio Martínez Montejo were released from detention on 20 January, along with Isabel Haydee Álvarez, who was detained after calling on officials to release the two activists. They had been held for 52 days without charge, following their participation in a peaceful anti-government demonstration on 30 November 2011. [ Lire la suite » ]


 

Urgent action: Russian Federation. Opposition leader Sergey Udaltsov held for protest attempt.

UA: 356/11 Index: EUR 46/045/2011 Issue Date: 13 December 2011

Russian opposition leader Sergey Udaltsov has been in detention in Moscow since 4 December, solely for attempting to lead peaceful protests against alleged election fraud. He is in need of medical treatment and should be released without delay. [ Lire la suite » ]


 

Urgent action: El Salvador. Demand justice for massacre victims

UA: 354/11 Index: AMR 29/004/2011 Issue Date: 9 December 2011

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 20 JANUARY 2012 TO: Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.

International pressure is growing on the government of El Salvador to ensure justice for the victims of a series of massacres carried out by the armed forces in December 1981. The global attention on the case around the thirtieth anniversary of the killings gives an opportunity for El Salvador to take decisive action on the case. [ Lire la suite » ]


 

Urgent action: USA. Experts rule man out as killer, execution set

UA: 233/11 Index: AMR 51/066/2011 Issue Date: 28 July 2011

PLEASE SEND APPEALS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, AND BEFORE 18 AUGUST 2011 TO:

Larry Swearingen, aged 40, is due to be executed in Texas on 18 August. He was sentenced to death in 2000 for a murder in 1998. He maintains his innocence. Since his trial, a number of forensic experts have ruled him out as the murderer. [ Lire la suite » ]


 

Urgent action (follow-up): Israel: village destroyed for eighth time

Further information on UA: 236/10 Index: MDE 15/030/2010 Date: 23 December 2010

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 2 FEBRUARY 2011 . Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.

The Bedouin village of al-‘Araqib in the Negev in southern Israel has been demolished for the eight time, affecting around 50 people, over half of them children. The residents, citizens of Israel, are determined to rebuild their homes as the weather deteriorates. [ Lire la suite » ]


 

Urgent Action (good news) : Israel allows Abu Mteer, a palestinian patient, out of gaza

UA: 183/09, Index: MDE 15/023/2009, Issue Date: 10 July 2009

Israël : the Israeli authorities have agreed to grant Palestinian man Ahmed Abu Mteer permission to leave Gaza in order to travel to a Palestinian hospital in East Jerusalem, where he can receive life-saving treatment. [ Lire la suite » ]


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