Related Information

Colombia: Fear for Safety
20 June 2008

Members of the armed forces have threatened inhabitants of the Naya River basin by telling them that paramilitary groups are returning to the area. The paramilitary ...

Urgent Action       AMR 23/018/2008

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

Syria: Further information on fear of torture and other ill ...
10 June 2008

Kurdish activist Ma’rouf Mulla Ahmed, leading member of the Kurdish Yeketi Party was released on bail on 5 March 2008. His trial will take place before the Military ...

Urgent Action       MDE 24/015/2008

USA (Texas): Death penalty/Legal concern: Charles Dean Hood
30 May 2008

Charles Hood is scheduled to be executed in Texas on 17 June 2008. He was sentenced to death in 1990 for the murders of Ronald Williamson and Tracie Lynn Wallace ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/049/2008

Iran: Further Information on Fear of torture
22 May 2008

Jamshid Arazpour and Haji Aman Khadivar, who were among a group of Iranians of Turkmen ethnicity detained in early January 2008, are now known to have been charged ...

Urgent Action       MDE 13/072/2008

Israel / Occupied Palestinian Territories: Amnesty International ...
29 April 2008

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL. Public Statement. AI Index: MDE 15/020/2008 (Public). Date: 29 April 2008. Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories ...

Document       MDE 15/020/2008

Nepal threatens Olympic protesters | Amnesty International
22 April 2008

Story      

US Supreme Court rules lethal injections constitutional | Amnesty ...
18 April 2008

The US Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that the state of Kentucky's lethal injection procedures are constitutional.

Story      

Algeria: Briefing to the Committee Against Torture
17 April 2008

Amnesty International submits this briefing for consideration by the Committee Against Torture. This briefing summarizes some of Amnesty International’s main concerns ...

Report       MDE 28/001/2008

USA: In whose best interests? Omar Khadr, child ‘enemy combatant ...
16 April 2008

This is a summary of the report about Omar Khadr, a Canadian national, who has been in US military detention for approaching six years. Taken into custody in July ...

Report       AMR 51/029/2008