Middle East And North Africa

Lebanon: Joint public statement: Ruling aids families of " ...
4 November 2009

A decision by Lebanese judicial authorities is an encouraging first step toward recognizing the right of families of victims of enforced disappearances during the ...

Document       MDE 18/007/2009

Veteran human rights lawyer faces up to 15 years in Syrian prison ...
4 November 2009

Amnesty International believes that charges have beenbrought against Haytham al-Maleh simply because he exercised his right to freedom ofexpression.

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Italy: The Abu Omar case
4 November 2009

In February 2003, Usama Mostafa Hassan Nasr (known as Abu Omar) was on his way to a local mosque when he was abducted from a street in Milan. He was subsequently ...

Document       EUR 30/012/2009

Iranian activist banned from receiving human rights award in ...
3 November 2009

A longstanding travel ban on journalist Emadeddin Baghi, has prevented him from travelling to Switzerland to recieve his Martin Ennals prize in person.

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Student activist held in Tunisia at risk of torture | Amnesty ...
3 November 2009

Mohammed Soudani has been detained incommunicado since he met with twoFrench radio journalists who were covering the presidential andlegislative elections that ...

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Yemen: Stop executions in Yemen!
3 November 2009

Five men under sentence of death in Yemen could be executed as early as 11 November. They have exhausted all their appeals, and their death sentences have been ...

Urgent Action       MDE 31/016/2009

Iran: Further information: Journalist released on bail
3 November 2009

Hengameh Shahidi, a female journalist, was released on bail on 1 November after four months detained without trial in Iran's capital, Tehran. She had been on hunger ...

Document       MDE 13/116/2009

UN General Assembly must end war crimes whitewash | Amnesty ...
3 November 2009

Judge Richard Goldstone's report on war crimes committed in Gaza and southern Israel is to be debated by the General Assembly this week. Amnesty International has ...

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Tunisia: Tunisian student activist held incommunicado
3 November 2009

Male student activist Mohammed Soudani is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment in custody in Tunisia. He was arrested on 22 October after meeting with two ...

Document       MDE 30/014/2009

Tunisia: Assaults on journalists must be punished | Amnesty ...
30 October 2009

The assault of two independent journalists in Tunisia and the arrest of a third in the wake of last week’s elections must be punished, Amnesty International said ...

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