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Amnesty International  Report 2013


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Syria: Father and son held incommunicado in Syria
20 May 2013

Medical student Sameeh Bahrah, aged 26, has been held incommunicado at an unknown location, since his arrest on 30 April 2013. The same day, his father Bassam Bahrah ...

Urgent Action       MDE 24/023/2013

Syria: Rights Activists Face Terrorism Charges
17 May 2013

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. JOINT PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: MDE 24/021/2013. 17 May 2013. Syria: Rights Activists Face Terrorism Charges. ...

Public Statement       MDE 24/021/2013

UN resolution on Syria will do little to stop massive abuses ...
15 May 2013

Today's United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) resolution on Syria is a positive step but it does little to address the immense ongoing human rights and humanitarian ...

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Turkey: Twin car bombings in Syrian border district condemned
13 May 2013

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI index: EUR 44/011/2013. 13 May 2013. Turkey: Twin car bombings in Syrian border district condemned. ...

Public Statement       EUR 44/011/2013

Amnesty International | Journalists targeted in on-going conflict ...
3 May 2013

Scores of journalists reporting on human rights abuses in Syria have been killed, arbitrarily arrested, detained, subjected to enforced disappearances and tortured ...

Press Release      

Syria: Shooting the messenger: Journalists targeted by all sides ...
3 May 2013

Syria has become the most dangerous country in the world for journalists since the eruption of popular protests in 2011 and the development since then of a bitter ...

Report       MDE 24/014/2013

Wire, May/June 2013. Vol 43, issue 003
1 May 2013

1) The Agenda 2) Up front: The pure power of testimony: 3) 'There are no human rights in Sri Lanka' 4) The painful truth [torture] 5) Five ways to repress a journalist ...

Newsletter       NWS 21/003/2013

Syria must reveal fate of missing child feared to be at risk of ...
29 April 2013

The Syrian authorities must immediately reveal the whereabouts of a 16-year-old boy who has been missing since November, Amnesty International urges.

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Syria: Child held incommunicado in Syria
26 April 2013

Sixteen-year-old Ahmed Ismael al-'Akkad, who suffers from asthma, has been held incommunicado in conditions possibly amounting to enforced disappearance since 20 ...

Urgent Action       MDE 24/018/2013

Turkey: National authorities and the international community must ...
25 April 2013

The ongoing internal armed conflict in Syria is fuelling a mass outflow of people seeking safety abroad, with more than 1.3 million refugees from Syria having fled ...

Report       EUR 44/009/2013