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Mexico: Fear for safety
16 May 2008

The municipal authorities of the mainly indigenous Mixteca municipality of Santo Domingo Ixcatlán, in Oaxaca state, are preparing to sell off an area of communal ...

Urgent Action       AMR 41/023/2008

Iran: Arbitrary arrests / Prisoners of conscience
15 May 2008

Six leaders of a group managing the Baha’i community’s religious and administrative affairs in Iran were arrested at their homes by officers from the Ministry of ...

Urgent Action       MDE 13/068/2008

India: Concern over the arrest of filmmaker and human rights ...
14 May 2008

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: ASA 20/010/2008 (Public). Date: 14 May 2008. India: Concern over the arrest of filmmaker ...

Document       ASA 20/010/2008

Slovakia: NGOs joint open letter on the occasion of the second ...
13 May 2008

In this joint letter, the undersigning organizations are calling on the Government of Slovakia, as well as all members of the Slovak National Council, to use the ...

Document       EUR 72/004/2008

Brazil: Further information on fear for safety
12 May 2008

Around 50 Guajajara indigenous families, in the remote Araribóia reservation in the central west of Maranhão state, are at risk of attack from local gunmen allegedly ...

Urgent Action       AMR 19/007/2008

USA: Omar Khadr’s trial by military commission a step closer. ...
12 May 2008

In 2002, Omar Khadr was taken into US custody following a firefight with US forces in Afghanistan. Omar Khadr has remained in US military custody ever since, labelled ...

Report       AMR 51/038/2008

South Korea: On-going Crackdown against Migrant's Trade Union
8 May 2008

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: ASA 25/004/2008 (Public). Date: 08 May 2008. South Korea: On-going Crackdown against Migrant’s Trade Union. ...

Document       ASA 25/004/2008

Belarus: Torture and other ill-treatment/health concern, Emanuel ...
7 May 2008

US national Emanuel Zeltser was detained when he flew in to Belarus on 12 March 2008. He is held in a state security services detention facility in the capital, ...

Urgent Action       EUR 49/006/2008

Bahrain: Death penalty/fear of imminent execution: Mizan Noor Al ...
2 May 2008

PUBLIC AI Index: MDE 11/001/2008. 02 May 2008. UA 119/08 Death penalty/fear of imminent execution. BAHRAIN Mizan Noor Al Rahman Ayoub ...

Urgent Action       MDE 11/001/2008

USA: Who are the Guantánamo detainees? Case Sheet 25: Sanad Ali ...
1 May 2008

Sanad al-Kazimi is a Yemeni national who has been held without charge or trial in Guantánamo Bay in Cuba for the past three and a half years. In total, he has been ...

Document       AMR 51/033/2008