Americas

Mexico: Migrants threatened and attacked in Mexico
9 October 2009

UA: 277/09 Index: AMR 41/053/2009 Mexico Date: 09 October 2009. URGENT ACTION. MIGRANTS THREATENED and attacked in MEXICO. Migrants ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/053/2009

Honduras must allow journalists to broadcast freely | Amnesty ...
9 October 2009

Story      

Amnesty International urges President Obama to build on Nobel ...
9 October 2009

US President Barack Obama must keep justice, human rights and the rule of law at thecentre of his efforts to promote peace.

Story      

Texas execution looms after jury consult Bible | Amnesty ...
9 October 2009

A Texas man who faces execution after jurors at his trial consulted theBible when deliberating his fate should have his death sentencecommuted, Amnesty International ...

Story      

Colombia: Paramilitaries threaten indigenous leaders
9 October 2009

A paramilitary group has threatened to kill Indigenous leaders in the west-central Colombian Department of Risaralda.

Urgent Action       AMR 23/024/2009

Dominican Republic: Activist incommunicado in Dominican Republic ...
9 October 2009

The whereabouts of male community activist Juan Almonte Herrera have not been known since he was abducted on 28 September in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican ...

Urgent Action       AMR 27/006/2009

Le Fil. Octobre/Novembre 2009
8 October 2009

Le Fil. Octobre/Novembre 2009

Document       NWS 21/005/2009

Dominican Republic: Haitian migrants at risk in Dominican Republic
8 October 2009

Twenty-five male Haitian migrants have been collectively expelled from the Dominican Republic after being rounded up at a meeting on labour rights organized by ...

Urgent Action       AMR 27/005/2009

The Wire, October/November 2009. Vol. 39, issue 005
8 October 2009

1) Worldwide Appeals: DRC: Tortured in detention; Paraguay: Yakye Axa and Sawhoyamaxa Indigenous communities; Iraq: Detained without trial for nine years; Nepal ...

Document       NWS 21/005/2009

USA: Further information: No death penalty for former secret ...
8 October 2009

The US administration has decided not to seek the death penalty against male Tanzanian national Ahmed Ghailani at his forthcoming federal trial. Before being transferred ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/110/2009