http://www.amnesty.org/en/related_information/feed/2032/2045/2055/1908 Download Documents from Amnesty International en http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE31/004/2008/en Dr Mohamed al-Saqaf, a lawyer and university lecturer, was arrested on 11 August by security forces at the airport in the capital, Sana’a. He is being held by the National Security forces (al- Amn al-Qawmi) at the Criminal investigation prison in Sana’a, where he is at risk of torture and other ill-treat Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/feature-stories/no-moving-backwards-myanmar-20080808 Twenty years after the brief flowering of people power in Myanmar,however, little has improved for the millions of people still sufferingunder repressive rule. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE13/110/2008/en Ya’qoub Mehrnehad, a Baluchi cultural and civil rights activist, was executed on 4 August 2008 after his death sentence was approved by Iran’s prosecutor-general. Ya’qoub Mehrnehad was sentenced to death in February 2008 after an unfair trial. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/syria-amnesty-international-welcomes-release-prisoner-conscience-2008080 Amnesty International today welcomed the release of Syrian prisoner of conscience Dr ‘Aref Dalilah. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA17/092/2008/en Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE13/109/2008/en Seven members of the Baha’i religious minority have been charged with vaguely worded charges relating to national security. According to press reports, Tehran's deputy prosecutor claimed that they had “confessed” to setting up an illegal organisation in Iran that took orders from Israel and other state Wed, 06 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE12/017/2008/en Ahmed Maher and thirteen other protestors were released without charge, from the Borg al Arab prison between 30 July and 01 August 2008. On 24 July, the public prosecutor ordered that the protestors be detained for fifteen days whilst an investigation was conducted. A court in Alexandria overturned the order Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/NWS21/007/2008/en Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE13/107/2008/en Women's rights activist Zeynab Bayzeydi was arrested on 9 July 2008, after the police ordered her to present herself for interrogation at a police station in the city of Mahabad, in the western province of Kordestan. She is in danger of torture or other ill-treatment. Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE13/106/2008/en Kurdish human rights activist Saman Rasoulpour was arrested on 25 July 2008 at his home in the city of Mahabad, in West Azerbaijan province, and is in danger of torture. He is a senior member of an organisation that campaigns for better treatment of Iran's Kurdish minority, the Human Rights Organisation of K Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International