Further information on UA: 70/11 Index: MDE 14/011/2011 Issue Date: 18 March 2011

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 29 APRIL 2011 to the KRG representatives in your country. Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.

Walid Yunis Ahmad has been sentenced to five years in prison, after an unfair trial. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 9/11 Index: AMR 51/004/2011 Issue Date: 13 January 2011

PLEASE SEND APPEALS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, AND BEFORE 24 FEBRUARY .Please check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.

The Illinois legislature has passed a bill to abolish the death penalty in the state. This historic bill now goes to the state governor who can sign it into law or veto it. Governor Pat Quinn has said he will look at the bill “very carefully”. He has a maximum of 60 days to act on it. Appeals to the Governor at this stage could help convince him to sign the bill into law. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 229/10 Index: AMR 19/015/2010 Issue Date: 29 October 2010

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 10 DECEMBER 2010 TO:
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The community of Restinga is in imminent risk of forced eviction due to the construction of a highway in Recreio dos Bandeirantes, Rio de Janeiro. After months of threats, on 22 October at 9:00am council workers accompanied by heavily armed civil and military police, began bulldozing a commercial district that has existed for over twenty years, destroying five shops. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA 132/10 Index: AMR 41/43/2010 Issue date: 16 June 2010

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 28 JULY 2010 .
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Heavily armed policemen forced their way into a Mexican women's shelter on 9 June. This has threatened the safety and security of the women inside, many of whom were hiding there from violent partners. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 71/08 Index: MDE 13/128/2009

The execution of Mohammad Reza Haddadi, a 21-year-old man, scheduled for 9 December, did not take place. No new execution date has been announced. He is held in Adelabad prison in Shiraz, southern Iran. Juvenile offenders have previously been executed without prior warning to their lawyers. [ Lire la suite » ]