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USA: Guantánamo must be closed immediately
22 June 2007

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PRESS RELEASE. News Flash. AI Index: AMR 51/110/2007 (Public). News Service No: 117. 22 June 2007. USA: Guantánamo must be closed immediately ...

Press Release       AMR 51/110/2007

Tunisia: Forcible return/Fear of torture and other ill-treatment
20 June 2007

On 17 June, the USA transferred two Tunisian nationals, Abdellah Ben Omar al Hajji and Lutfi Ben Swei Lagha, from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to the custody of the Tunisian ...

Urgent Action       MDE 30/005/2007

USA (Texas): Death penalty: Patrick Bryan Knight (m)
18 June 2007

Patrick Knight, white, aged 39, is scheduled to be executed in Texas on 26 June. He was sentenced to death in Randall County in 1993 for the murder of Mary Ann ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/107/2007

USA (South Dakota): Death penalty / Legal concern: Elijah Page (m)
18 June 2007

Elijah Page, aged 25, is scheduled to be executed in South Dakota in the week beginning 9 July. He was sentenced to death in 2001 for the kidnapping, torture and ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/108/2007

USA: Fear of forcible return: Abdul Ra'ouf Omar Mohammed Abu al ...
15 June 2007

Abdul Ra'ouf al Qassim, a Libyan national in US military custody in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is feared to be at imminent risk of transfer to the custody of the Libyan ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/103/2007

USA: Further information on: Incommunicado detention/detention ...
15 June 2007

On 11 June 2007 a three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled 2-1 that "military detention of al-Marri must cease" as "the President ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/106/2007

USA (South Carolina): Death penalty: Calvin Alphonso Shuler (m)
15 June 2007

Calvin Shuler, black, aged 40, is scheduled to be executed in South Carolina on 22 June. He was sentenced to death in 1998 for the murder of James Brooks during ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/104/2007

USA (Texas): Further information on death penalty / legal concern ...
13 June 2007

On 11 June, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals issued an indefinite stay of execution for Cathy Henderson, aged 50, and remanded the case to the trial court for ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/102/2007

USA: Further information on fear of torture/ill-treatment: Sameh ...
7 June 2007

Egyptian national Sameh Khouzam, who faces forcible return to Egypt, has received a 12-day stay of deportation. This is due to expire on 18 June, leaving him at ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/100/2007

USA: Off the Record. US Responsibility for Enforced Disappearances ...
7 June 2007

This briefing paper presents information about at least 39 detainees, all of whom are still missing, who are believed to have been held in secret sites run by the ...

Report       AMR 51/093/2007