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Three Iranian journalists, Bahman Ahmadi Amou'i, Kevyan Samimi Behbahani, and Saeed Laylaz, remain detained since the government's crackdown on freedom of expression after the June 12 elections. They are at risk of torture.
Members of a peasant farmers' organization in southern Mexico have been tortured while in custody after being arrested without a warrant.
A 53 year old male environmental activist was arrested in northern Turkmenistan. He is believed to be at risk of torture or ill- treatment.
Haytham al-Maleh, who is 78, will appear before a court on 25 October. If he is tried and convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison, simply for talking about human rights violations and government corruption in Syria
Yemeni journalist Muhammad al-Maqalih is now believed to be detained at a prison run by the Ministry of Defense, though the authorities have continued to refuse to give any information about him.
Academic and dual Iran-U.S. national Kian Tajbakhsh was arrested at his home in Tehran on 9 July. Kian Tajbakhsh, a 47-year-old social scientist who taught urban policy at the New School University in New York and who previously consulted for George Soros' Open Society Institute, was arrested on the night of 9 July by agents of the Security Police. Download the action Iranian-American Scholar Sentenced to 15 Years in a Judicial Travesty in PDF format | Download the action Iranian-American Scholar Sentenced to 15 Years in a Judicial Travesty in RTF format
Mohammad Pour Abdollah, who was arrested in February in Tehran, is now on trial for his involvement with an Iranian student organization. He is at risk of torture and other ill treatment while he is in detention.
Haytham al-Maleh, a 78-year-old human rights lawyer, was arrested at his office in Damascus on October 14. He may be a prisoner of conscience, arrested solely for his peaceful defense of human rights; however, police have not given a reason for al-Maleh's arrest.
Mehdi Karroubi, a 72 year old male cleric is facing criminal charges in relation for his reporting of allegations that detainees were mistreated.
Yan Dongfei and Qiao Yongfang, an elderly Chinese couple are about to be put on trial because they practice Falun Gong. They are in custody in northern China, and are at risk of torture and other ill treatment.
Nguyen Hoang Hai, a male prisoner of conscience, has been trasferred to a remote prison in Viet Nam. He is at risk of torture or ill-treatment
Thirty-six Iranian men arrested from Camp Ashraf in July, have been transferred from a police station to a military airbase in Baghdad. They are at risk of torture or other ill-treatment as they are now detained incommunicado.
A Syrian Kurdish man has been held without access to the outside world for over three weeks after he was forcibly returned from Germany to Syria. He is in grave danger of torture.
Nine men on trial in China's central Henan province are now known to have said they were tortured in order to make them confess. The court has dismissed their complaints due to lack of evidence.
Dilixiati Paerhati, editor of a Uighur website Diyarim.com, has not been seen since 7 August. His current whereabouts are unknown. There are fears that he is being held in incommunicado detention and is at risk of torture or other ill-treatment.
Colonel Fodé Bacar Sylla, one of 12 soldiers that were arrested in January and held without charge, has been released. Ten soldiers are still being detained incommunicado in an unlawful place of detention where they are at risk of torture and ill-treatment.
President Obama and a number of members of Congress have resisted full accountability for torture, and have endorsed indefinite detention and unfair military commissions. There is an alternative: call on President Obama and Congress to respect human rights. Download the action President Obama and Congress: Respect Human Rights and Counter Terror With Justice in PDF format | Download the action President Obama and Congress: Respect Human Rights and Counter Terror With Justice in RTF format
Mohammed Mohammed Hassan Odaini remains detained in Guantanamo despite being cleared for release over 2 years ago. Odaini was detained in March 2002 along with several other Yemeni nationals, and sent to the detention camp at the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In June 2005 he was deemed suitable for release from Guantanamo, yet he continues to be unjustly detained. He has not been interrogated for nearly two years and the reason for his continued detention is unclear.
For more than a year, Turkish authorities have imprisoned Mehmet Desde for the peaceful expression of his political views. Following an unfair trial, authorities convicted him in June 2007 of having a connection with the Bolshevik Party (North Kurdistan/Turkey), which is a small, non-violent political party. His conviction was based largely on statements allegedly extracted under torture.
On December 1, 2004, some 200 people participated in a nonviolent ceremony in Papua Province during which the Morning Star flag, a symbol of Papuan independence, was raised in commemoration of the declaration of Papuan independence in 1962. For peacefully raising this flag, Filep Karma and Yusak Pakage may spend the next decade or more in prison in Indonesia.
Jamie Leigh Jones was reportedly drugged, gang-raped and imprisoned in a container by fellow KBR co-workers in 2005 while working in Iraq on a U.S. Defense Department contract. Like the Abu Ghraib torture victims who still have not seen justice after more than four years, the abuse Jones says she suffered at the hands of private contractors over two years ago has not seen the light of a criminal trial. Download the action Investigate and prosecute military contractors who torture, kill in PDF format | Download the action Investigate and prosecute military contractors who torture, kill in RTF format
