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Syria: Father and son held incommunicado in Syria

Medical student Sameeh Bahrah, aged 26, has been held incommunicado at an unknown location, since his arrest on 30 April 2013. The same day, his father Bassam Bahrah ...

20 May 2013       Urgent Action       MDE 24/023/2013

Colombia: Paramilitaries threaten rights organisation

Human rights defenders working with forcibly displaced people in Barrancabermeja, Northern Colombia, received three death threats from paramilitaries on 13 and ...

20 May 2013       Urgent Action       AMR 23/022/2013

Belarus: What is not permitted is prohibited: Silencing Civil ...

Hundreds of persons in Belarus every year are directly deprived of their rights to freedom of association and assembly. Civil society organizations face closure ...

20 May 2013       Public Statement       EUR 49/006/2013

Venezuela: Murders of family continue; 17-year-old killed

On the night of 16 May 2013, 17-year-old Roni Barrios was murdered with a machete or axe in Aragua state, Venezuela. He is the tenth member of the Barrios family ...

20 May 2013       Urgent Action       AMR 53/007/2013

Finland: Follow-up procedure to the forty-sixth session of the ...

In June 2011, the Committee against Torture (the Committee) expressed concern over Finland's compliance with the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman ...

17 May 2013       Report       EUR 20/001/2013

Yemen: Three men at risk of imminent execution

Three Yemeni men are at risk of imminent execution in the coming week after local authorities informed them and their families that they have received orders to ...

17 May 2013       Urgent Action       MDE 31/013/2013

USA: Push USA on new promise to shut Guantánamo

According to the military authorities, 102 of the 166 detainees in the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba are on hunger strike, with 30 being “tube fed”. In ...

17 May 2013       Urgent Action       AMR 51/029/2013

Indonesia: Further information: Three men executed in Indonesia

Suryadi Swabuana, Jurit bin Abdullah, and Ibrahim bin Ujang were executed by firing squad late at night on 16 May 2013.

17 May 2013       Urgent Action       ASA 21/017/2013

Canada: Follow-up procedure to the forty-eighth session of the ...

Amnesty International is deeply concerned about Canada's lack of progress in implementing the 2012 recommendations of the Committee against Torture (the Committee ...

17 May 2013       Report       AMR 20/001/2013

India must take prompt steps to address concerns of UN Special ...

In this statement Amnesty International welcomes the initial findings by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and urges the Indian authorities ...

17 May 2013       Public Statement       ASA 20/026/2013