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Switzerland: Asylum-seeker risks deportation, torture: Saeed Ali ...
20 April 2010

Yemeni asylum-seeker Saeed Ali Shamrookh is at imminent risk of deportation from Switzerland to Yemen, where he would be at risk of torture and other ill-treatment ...

Urgent Action       EUR 43/001/2010

Amnesty International | Switzerland votes against religious ...
29 November 2009

Amnesty International deeply regrets the choice of Swiss voters todayto introduce a ban on the construction of minarets into the constitution.

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Amnesty International | Switzerland minaret ban would breach ...
25 November 2009

A ban on the construction of minarets would breach Switzerland' sobligations to uphold freedom of religion.

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Switzerland: Banning the construction of minarets would violate ...
21 October 2009

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: EUR 43/001/2009(Public). Date: 21 October 2009. Switzerland: Banning the construction ...

Document       EUR 43/001/2009

Turkey: German, Swiss and Austrian governments withdraw financial ...
7 July 2009

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: EUR 44/004/2009. 7 July 2009. German, Swiss and Austrian governments withdraw financial ...

Document       EUR 44/004/2009

Five jailed in Chile ten years after Pinochet arrest | Amnesty ...
16 October 2008

Chile's Supreme Court jailed five retired military officials onWednesday for involvement in the "Caravan of Death" – one of the casesfor which Augu.

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UN Human Rights Council Eighth Session, 2-18 June 2008 ...
18 July 2008

The statements in this document were made during the eighth main session of the Human Rights Council that took place from 2 to 18 June 2008.

Report       IOR 41/034/2008

Compilation of recommendations to the countries under review ...
1 May 2008

This document contains recommendations made during the interactive dialogue in the UPR Working Group with Benin, France, Ghana, Guatemala, Japan, Pakistan, Peru ...

Document       IOR 41/042/2008

Switzerland: Further information on fear of forcible return ...
26 March 2008

On 19 March 2008, the Swiss Migration Office permitted a request from Cameroonian national Anatole Zali to re-examine his asylum claim. He was released from detention ...

Urgent Action       EUR 43/005/2008

Switzerland: Fear of forcible return: Anatole Zali
7 March 2008

Eighteen-year-old Anatole Zali is at imminent risk of being forcibly returned to Cameroon by the Swiss authorities. Anatole Zali identifies himself as gay, and ...

Urgent Action       EUR 43/001/2008