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 » ]

FU on UA: 36/10 Index: MDE 13/024/2010 Issue Date: 9 March 2010

Iranian environmental activist and interpreter Mahfarid Mansourian was released on bail on 21 February, after two weeks’ detention. Amnesty International does not know the precise conditions of her release on bail and she may face charge and trial in the future. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 49/10 Index: AMR 23/010/2010 Issue Date: 5 March 2010

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A Colombian lawyer who works with the families of those who have been killed by security forces is in grave danger. An inmate who was recently released from prison gave information about a plot to kill him. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 48/10 Index: AMR 41/017/2010 Issue Date: 4 March 2010

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Lawyer Ernesto Rábago Martínez was shot and killed in his office in Chihuahua City, northern Mexico. He and his female partner, Estela Ángeles Mondragón, had previously been threatened and attacked because of their legal work for an Indigenous community involved in a land dispute. Estela Ángeles Mondragón and her daughter are in grave danger. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 47/10 Index: amr 46/003/2010 Issue Date: 04 March 2010

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A Chinese man, Huang Haiyong (also written as Wong Ho Wing) is facing extradition from Peru to face charges in China that can carry the death penalty. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 46/10 Index: Mexico AMR 41/016/2010

Blanca Mesina, the daughter of a Mexican torture victim in Tijuana, has received a death threat. The victim's lawyer, Silvia Vázquez Camacho, has also received a death threat and her family's van has been petrol bombed. [ Lire la suite » ]

Further Information on UA: 16/10 Index: AMR 41/015/2010

Margarita Martínez, the wife of community activist Adolfo Guzmán Ordaz, was abducted, beaten and threatened on 25 February. She and Adolfo Guzmán had previously received death threats after filing a complaint against police. [ Lire la suite » ]

UA: 231/09 Index: Iran MDE 13/026/2010

Hengameh Shahidi, a female journalist, was rearrested on 25 February to begin serving a six-year prison sentence. An appeal court upheld her conviction for charges related to her political and journalistic activities. She is held in Evin Prison, Tehran, and Amnesty International considers her to be a prisoner of conscience [ Lire la suite » ]

Further information on UA: 233/09 Index: MDE 13/027/2010

Dr Mohammad Maleki was released on bail on 1 March 2010. He had spent 191 days detained in Evin Prison, Tehran apparently for his criticism of the conduct of the disputed presidential election in 2009. It is possible that he may still be charged and tried.
He has diabetes, heart problems and prostate cancer, and cannot walk unaided. His family had publicly expressed concern on 20 February that they had not been given permission to visit him for 20 days and that they feared his life was in danger. [ Lire la suite » ]

FU on UA: 30/10 Index: MDE 13/025/2010

Student and women’s rights activist Somayeh Rashidi was released from Evin Prison, Tehran, on 25 February 2010. Amnesty International is not aware of the precise conditions of her release, but she may face charge and trial in the future. [ Lire la suite » ]