Middle East And North Africa

Israel: Impunity for unlawful killings of demonstrators by police
28 January 2008

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. Public Statement. AI Index: MDE 15/005/2008 (Public). News Service No: 28 January 2008. Israel: Impunity for ...

Document       MDE 15/005/2008

Gaza must not be cut off from the world | Amnesty International
25 January 2008

The Egyptian authorities began efforts to reclose the country's borderwith Gaza, three days afterPalestinian militants blew open breaches in the border wall.

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Iran: UA 25/08 - Possible prisoners of conscience/fear of torture ...
25 January 2008

Haleh Rouhi Jahromi, Raha Sabet Sarvestani and Sasan Taqva, all Baha’is, have been detained by the Ministry of Intelligence in Shiraz since 19 November 2007. It ...

Urgent Action       MDE 13/017/2008

Iran: Fear of torture
25 January 2008

Jamshid Arazpour and Haji Aman Khadivar were detained in the first week of January 2008, during or after unrest that followed the killing of a Turkmen fisherman ...

Urgent Action       MDE 13/016/2008

Iran: Torture/possible prisoners of conscience/medical concern
25 January 2008

Iranian Azerbaijani Behrouz Seferi, who has campaigned for Iran’s Azerbaijani minority to be given greater rights to use their mother tongue, is now known to have ...

Urgent Action       MDE 13/015/2008

Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories/Egypt: Health Professional ...
24 January 2008

Amnesty International remains concerned that inhabitants of the Gaza Strip who are in need of medical care not available in Gaza continue to be denied passage out ...

Document       MDE 15/004/2008

Lebanon/Iraq: Fear of forcible return/ torture and other ill ...
23 January 2008

Muthher 'Abd al-Karim al-Kharbit and Bashar Sab’awi Ibrahim, two Iraqi nationals held in Lebanon, are facing a possible extradition to Iraq following a decision ...

Urgent Action       MDE 18/001/2008