Middle East And North Africa

Syria: Kurdish minority rights activists jailed
16 November 2009

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: MDE 24/033/2009 (Public). 16 November 2009. Syria: Kurdish minority rights activists jailed. ...

Document       MDE 24/033/2009

Iran: Further information: Stoning sentence quashed in Iran
13 November 2009

A man and a woman were released from prison in the central Iranian city of Esfahan on 4 October following their acquittal in a retrial after their convictions for ...

Urgent Action       MDE 13/122/2009

Iran: Authorities must stop imminent execution of Kurdish man ...
13 November 2009

The Iranian authorities must halt the imminent execution of Sherko Moarefi, a Kurdish man convicted of “enmity against God” over his alleged membership of a proscribed ...

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Egypt: Russian detained in Egypt: Ibrahim Zautdinovich Mankiev
13 November 2009

Ibrahim Zautdinovich Mankiev, a 32-year-old Russian man of Ingush ethnicity, has been detained incommunicado in Egypt since 10 November 2009. He is believed to ...

Urgent Action       MDE 12/033/2009

Iranian authorities must stop imminent execution of Kurdish man ...
13 November 2009

The Iranian authorities must halt the imminent execution of SherkoMoarefi, a Kurdish man convicted of "enmity against God" over hisalleged membership of a proscribed ...

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Saudi Arabia: Further information: Elderly woman and two men face ...
12 November 2009

Khamisa Mohammed Sawadi, a 75-year-old Syrian woman, along with two younger Saudi Arabian men known only as Fahad, aged 24, and Hadyan, have had their sentences ...

Urgent Action       MDE 23/034/2009

Iran: Further information: Iranian Kurdish man executed
12 November 2009

Ehsan (Esma’il) Fattahian, a male member of Iran’s Kurdish minority, was executed in the province of Kordestan, northwestern Iran, early on 11 November.

Urgent Action       MDE 13/121/2009

Egypt: Demand Dignity: Buried alive: Trapped by poverty and ...
12 November 2009

On 6 September 2008, over 100 residents of Ezbet Bekhit informal settlement were killed by a rockslide. One year on, the difficulties of finding affordable housing ...

Report       MDE 12/009/2009

Syria: Lifetime law practice ban against Muhannad al-Hassani sends ...
12 November 2009

This week’s decision by the Syrian Bar Association to issue a lifetime ban against Muhannad al-Hassani, president of the Syrian Organization for Human Rights (Sawasiyah ...

Document       MDE 24/032/2009

Saudi Arabian and Yemeni forces must protect civilians in Sa’da ...
11 November 2009

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