http://www.amnesty.org/en/related_information/feed/2032/2040/2055/1961 Download Documents from Amnesty International en http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/thailands-state-of-emergency-should-not+infringe-on-human+rights-20080902 Amnesty International urges the Thai government to respect human rights and to remove restrictions on free speech contained in the emergency decree. Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE13/131/2008/en On 9 August, Emadeddin Baghi, journalist and human rights defender, called his wife, Fatemeh Kamali Ahmad Sarahi, informing her that his transfer from Evin prison to a hospital in Tehran had been authorized by the prison doctor. A few hours later he contacted her again saying that he had actually been transf Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR41/039/2008/en Abdallán Guzmán, a member of the human rights organisation, the Diego Lucero Foundation (Fundación Diego Lucero A.C.) and his family were intimidated by armed soldiers who entered their family home without authorisation on 19 August 2008. Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR25/003/2008/en Gorki Águila was released on 29 August 2008 after a trial before a Municipal court in Havana. He was cleared of charges of “dangerousness” (peligrosidad), but found guilty of the lesser offence of civil disobedience. He was sentenced to pay a fine of 600 Cuban pesos (US$27). Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE15/036/2008/en The Israeli authorities are still denying scores of critically ill patients the authorization they need to leave Gaza for medical treatment that is unavailable in Gaza. Even those patients who are given permission to leave Gaza for treatment are often suffering as a result of delays in receiving exit permits Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/25-years-remembering-the-disappeared-20080829 Since the International Day of the Disappeared was started in 1983, the government practice of kidnapping, abducting or detaining people andholding them in secret has continued and spread as more countriesaccept and justify this crime. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE13/128/2008/en On 25 August 2008, Mahboubeh Karami was released on bail of one billion rials (approximately US$110,000). She was charged in mid-August with "acting against national security" and her next hearing is scheduled for 1 November at the Revolutionary Court in Tehran. Since her arrest on 13 June she had been held Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE24/027/2008/en On 26 August 2008, political activist Mesha'l al-Tammo was transferred from a detention centre run by the Political Security Branch in the capital, Damascus, to 'Adra Prison in the same city. His whereabouts had been unknown since the early hours of 15 August, when he was arrested by the Syrian Air Force Sec Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/life-sentences-for-argentinean-military-officers-20080829 Organization also calls on the Argentinean authorities to investigate the 2006 disappearance of Jorge Julio López. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE13/129/2008/en On 23 August 2008, Kurdish women’s rights activist Zeynab Bayzeydi had her four year sentence of imprisonment and internal exile upheld by an appeal court in West Azerbaijan, according to the Human Rights Activists in Iran website. She was charged with being a member of unauthorised human rights associatio Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International