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Pakistan: Balochistan briefing for Committee for Foreign Affairs ...
8 February 2012

8 February 2012 Balochistan briefing for Committee for Foreign Affairs, US House of Congress Amnesty International calls on the United States government to ...

Public Statement       ASA 33/002/2012

Colombia: Attempted Killing By Paramilitaries: Jesús Emilio ...
8 February 2012

A man from the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, Jesús Emilio Tuberquia, was shot at by two paramilitaries in the northern town of Apartadó on 4 February ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/008/2012

Panama: Fears for protestors after two killed
7 February 2012

Two protestors were killed and reportedly over 40 people injured when police dispersed a protest by Indigenous Peoples in Panama on 5 February. Protests are likely ...

Urgent Action       AMR 44/001/2012

Cuban blogger denied exit from country: Yoani Sánchez
7 February 2012

Cuban authorities have refused blogger Yoani Sánchez permission to travel to Brazil to attend a documentary screening on freedom of expression. Amnesty International ...

Urgent Action       AMR 25/003/2012

USA: Further information: No clemency in life without parole case ...
7 February 2012

Christi Cheramie was sentenced at the age of 16 to life in prison without the possibility of parole. She has been denied clemency by the Louisiana Board of Pardons ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/010/2012

Colombia: Further information: Human rights defenders threatened
6 February 2012

Members of the Regional Human Rights Corporation (CREDHOS) in Barrancabermeja, Colombia, have received new death threats from paramilitaries.

Urgent Action       AMR 23/006/2012

Mexico: Further information: Human rights defender knifed at home ...
6 February 2012

On 3 February 2012, Norma Andrade was attacked with a knife by an unknown man at her home in Mexico City. There are grave fears for her safety and that of her ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/008/2012

USA: 'Congress has made no such decision': Three branches of ...
6 February 2012

It is a fundamental rule of international law that any person whose human rights have been violated shall have access to an effective remedy. However, the US ...

Report       AMR 51/008/2012

USA: Three decades on death row, execution set: Robert Waterhouse
3 February 2012

A 65-year-old man is scheduled to be executed in the US state of Florida on 15 February for a murder committed in January 1980. He has been on death row for half ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/009/2012

Brazil: Further information: Indigenous community have days to ...
1 February 2012

The Laranjeira Ñanderu indigenous community, including over 80 children and 30 elderly people, is at risk of eviction from an area they claim as ancestral lands ...

Urgent Action       AMR 19/003/2012