Related Information

Mauritania: «Nobody wants to have anything to do with us» ...
1 July 2008

Since 2006, thousands of migrants, accused of setting out from Mauritania with the intention of entering the Canary Islands irregularly, have been arrested, then ...

Report       AFR 38/001/2008

Iran: Further Information on Arbitrary arrest/fear of torture or ...
27 June 2008

Mahboubeh Karami is currently held in the women’s section of Evin Prison in Tehran. According to women's rights organization, the Campaign for Equality, Mahboubeh ...

Urgent Action       MDE 13/089/2008

Iran: Further information on prisoner of conscience/ fear of ...
20 June 2008

Hana Abdi has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment, to be served in exile in West Azerbaijan province, in the small town of Germi, on the border with the ...

Urgent Action       MDE 13/085/2008

Iran: Arbitrary arrest/fear of torture or ill-treatment
17 June 2008

Mahboubeh Karami, journalist and women’s rights defender, was removed from a bus and arrested by plain clothed security forces on 13 June. The bus had travelled ...

Urgent Action       MDE 13/084/2008

Women’s Rights Activists arrested in peaceful solidarity ...
16 June 2008

Nine women attempting to take part in a small, peaceful seminar tocommemorate a day of solidarity with Iranian women were arrested inTehran on Thursday.

Story      

Iraq: Rhetoric and reality: the Iraqi refugee crisis
15 June 2008

The displacement crisis caused by the US-led invasion of Iraq and the subsequent internal armed conflict has reached shocking proportions. Millions of people at ...

Report       MDE 14/011/2008

Brazil: Eviction in Cascavel must not become an excuse for more ...
11 June 2008

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. PUBLIC STATEMENT. AI Index: AMR 19/008/2008 (Public). Date: 11 June 2008. Brazil: Eviction in Cascavel must not become. ...

Document       AMR 19/008/2008

Afghanistan: No more empty promises in Paris: briefing paper
11 June 2008

The International Conference in Support of Afghanistan will bring together high level representatives from some 80 countries and organizations involved in rebuilding ...

Document       ASA 11/007/2008

Brazil: Freedom of expression under threat - para-police torture ...
5 June 2008

Press freedom and the protection of human rights is being jeopardised by the brutal actions of criminal gangs made up of off-duty police officers in Rio de Janeiro ...

Press Release      

Philippines: Open Letter: House Resolution 124 calling on the ...
3 June 2008

In this letter Amnesty International strongly urges the government of Japan to bring House Resolution 124 to a re-vote. This Resolution calls on the Government ...

Document       ASA 35/001/2008