http://www.amnesty.org/en/related_information/feed/2055/1908 Download Documents from Amnesty International en 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/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/ACT30/006/2008/en Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE13/119/2008/en Mahboubeh Karami was charged within the past week with "acting against national security," and the Revolutionary Court in Mahabad has scheduled her next hearing for 1 November, according to her lawyer. She has been held in Evin Prison in Tehran since 13 June. Amnesty International believes the charge is fals Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE13/118/2008/en Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE13/116/2008/en 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 from her home, by Mahabad Revolutionary Court. Her family learned of this on 10 August 2008 when they went to the court to find out how her trial h Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE13/112/2008/en 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 students, named in this action, remain in detention and are facing various vaguely worded charges, such as "acting against national security"and 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 2008 by security forces at the airport in the capital, Sana’a. He is being held at the Criminal investigation prison in Sana’a, where he is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. He may be a prisoner of conscience, held Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100 Amnesty International http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE24/023/2008/en Dr. Aref Dalilah was released on 07 August 2008 after he was granted a presidential amnesty. Amnesty International welcomes Dr. Aref Dalilah's release and hopes it will be followed by the release of all other prisoners of conscience in Syria. 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