http://www.amnesty.org/en/related_information/feed/2032/2058/2028 Download Documents from Amnesty International en http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/eight-bahraini-nationals-released-20080704 Eight male teachers were released without charge in Saudi Arabia on 12 July 2008, after over four months’ detention. Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International 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/library/info/MDE12/019/2008/en Fri, 08 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/MDE23/035/2008/en Ali Hassan ‘Issa al-Buri, Qassim Bin Rida Bin Sulayman al Mahdi and Khalid Bin Muhammad ‘Issa al-Qadihi are at risk of execution after their death sentences were recently confirmed. The Ministry of the Interior now has responsibility for implementing the sentences. The schedule for the executions could b Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR51/090/2008/en Salim Hamdan, the Yemeni national convicted on 6 August 2008 by military commission of ‘providing military support for terrorism’, was sentenced to five and half years. Prosecutors had asked for a 30-year prison sentence. However, his future remains unclear, due largely to the Military Commissions Act. A 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/news-and-updates/news/hamdan-sentenced-military-commission-20080808 Convicted of  “providing material support for terrorism”, the Yemeni national was sentenced to five and a half years inprison at the first US military commission trial in Guantánamo Bay. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE12/018/2008/en Up to 1,200 Eritrean asylum-seekers were forcibly returned to Eritrea between 12 and 19 June 2008. Reports from Eritrea indicate that most of the men who were returned and some of the single women have been detained in military training camps in the remote and dry area of We’a. The returned women with chil 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