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Colombia: The human rights situation in Colombia: Amnesty ...
10 February 2012

COLOMBIA: THE HUMAN RIGHTS SITUATION IN COLOMBIA: AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL WRITTEN STATEMENT TO THE 19TH SESSION OF THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL (27 FEBRUARY ...

Document       AMR 23/007/2012

Cuba: Further Information: Screening postponed as blogger denied ...
10 February 2012

Following the Cuban authorities´ refusal to grant Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez permission to travel to Brazil to attend a documentary screening on freedom of ...

Urgent Action       AMR 25/004/2012

USA: The 10th Anniversary of “Law of War” Detentions at ...
9 February 2012

Index: AMR 51/011/2012 09 February 2012 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA The 10th Anniversary of “Law of War” Detentions at Guantánamo: US failure to address as ...

Document       AMR 51/011/2012

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

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

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

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

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