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Organization also calls on the Argentinean authorities to investigate the 2006 disappearance of Jorge Julio López.
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Political activist Mesha'l al-Tammo, who is a member of Syria’s Kurdish minority, has not been seen since the early hours of 15 August 2008, when he set off from ...
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Mahboubeh Karami was charged within the past week with "acting against national security," and the Revolutionary Court in Mahabad has scheduled her next hearing ...
Urgent Action MDE 13/119/2008
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Kurdish women's rights activist Zeynab Bayzeydi has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment, and internal exile to the Turkish-speaking city of Zanjan, 246 km ...
Urgent Action MDE 13/116/2008
Usama ‘Ashour was released on 13 August 2008. He had been arrested on 29 July by the Syrian Military Intelligence (SMI) at his house in Aleppo city.
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According to the Iran-based Advar News website, on 9 August 2008 Mehdi Khoda’i and Salman Sima were released. They have not, as yet, been charged. The other 10 ...
Urgent Action MDE 13/112/2008
Dr Mohamed al-Saqaf, a lawyer and university lecturer, was arrested on 11 August 2008 by security forces at the airport in the capital, Sana’a. He is being held ...
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