Amnesty International USA is the US Section of Amnesty International, a worldwide human rights organization. http://www.amnestyusa.org/rss/en/actions.xml en Amnesty International Amnesty International hourly 4 http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa17709.pdf?rss=actions Andriy Snigovyj is in pre-trial detention in Ukraine. He is HIV positive and is suffering painful and debilitating AIDS-related infections, but he is not receiving either treatment or medication. 2009-07-02T17:18:36-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa17609.pdf?rss=actions Political activist Jakarkhon Sheikho 'Ali, a member of Syria's Kurdish minority, is being held incommunicado at the Military Secruity Branch in Aleppo, Syria. He may be a prisoner of conscience, detained solely for the peaceful exercise of his rights to freedom of expression and association. He is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. 2009-07-01T16:38:55-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa17409.pdf?rss=actions The director and other members of Fray Bartolome de Las Casas Human Rights Center in Mexico have been continually harassed by unidentified individuals. Members report being stalked and photographed and Amnesty International fears for their safety. 2009-06-29T16:52:14-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa17509.pdf?rss=actions Mohammed Mostafaei has been released on bail after being arrested in Tehran on June 25. He is likely to face prosecution, and if imprisoned he would be a prisoner of conscience detained solely for his human rights activities. 2009-06-29T16:39:42-05:00 http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/siteapps/advocacy/index.aspx?c=jhKPIXPCIoE&b=2590179&template=x.ascx&action=12496&rss=actions Rape survivors are being denied treatment and care at a South African hospital near the Zimbabwean border if they have not first reported their case to the police. This practice breaches South Africa's human rights obligations as well as domestic law. The hospital, which is in the town of Musina in Limpopo province, is the only public hospital in the district. 2009-06-28T14:41:06-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa17309.pdf?rss=actions Margarita Martin De Las Nieves, Santiago Ponce Lola, and Modesta Laureano Petra are members of an indigenous rights organization. They were attacked by a gunman on June 24. 2009-06-26T16:39:52-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa16809.pdf?rss=actions Yu Seong-jin was arrested on March 30 in North Korea at the industrial complex where he works. He is being kept incommunicado and attempts by the South Korean government to request his release have all been ignored. 2009-06-26T15:29:35-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa17109.pdf?rss=actions At least 13 journalists were arbitrarily arrested in mid-June and most have been kept incommunicado. Some of the journalists were linked to foreign news outlets and are nationals of Canada and Greece. All detainees are in danger of torture and ill-treatment 2009-06-25T16:23:39-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa17209.pdf?rss=actions At least 25 employees of the newspaper Kalameh Sabz have been arbitrarily arrested and kept incommunicado. The clear reasons for the arrests are unknown and Amnesty International fears the prisoners of conscience may be tortured or otherwise ill-treated. 2009-06-25T16:02:04-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa06908.pdf?rss=actions On June 24, the Pakistan Supreme Court rejected Manjit/Sarabjit Singh's second petition to review the death sentence given to him in 1991. Manjit/Sarabjit Singh was arrested in 1990 in Pakistan on charges of having worked for Indian government intelligence. 2009-06-25T15:20:53-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa17009.pdf?rss=actions Maskhud Abdullaev, a Russian national from Chechnya, was forcibly returned by the Egyptian authorities on June 19 to Moscow, where he was detained and taken for questioning. Efforts to find out what has happened to him have so far been unsuccessful. 2009-06-25T15:02:20-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaaf1u10809?rss=actions Additional men were aressted and sentenced to death in Sudan making the total 103. All of the men have been sentenced to death due to their participation in an opposition group, the Justice and Equality Movement. 2009-06-24T17:30:44-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa16709.pdf?rss=actions Salah Ahmed Yahya al-Shagladi, chief editor of Aden Gulf Network news, and Hussein al-'Agil, lecturer at Aden University were arrested in Yemen during the last three weeks and are now held incommunicado, putting them at risk of torture and ill-treatment. 2009-06-24T17:24:45-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa169/09.pdf?rss=actions Liu Xiaobo was formally arrested for "inciting subversion of state power" on June 23. Amnesty International fears that he will be tortured or otherwise ill-treated while in custody after his arbitrary arrest. 2009-06-24T17:00:03-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa16609.pdf?rss=actions Indigenous leader Jose Goyez Santacruz and his family have a received a death threat for campaigning for land rights in the south-western Department of Cauca. Other Indigenous leaders in the region are in grave danger and several have already been killed. 2009-06-24T16:55:47-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa16509.pdf?rss=actions Over 400 families were evicted from a government building on June 16th in Brazil. After violent clashes with police authorities, 200 families still remain without adequate living arrangments. 2009-06-23T15:53:06-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa16109.pdf?rss=actions Soldiers tortured, shot at, threatened, and harrassed adults and children in 3 rural communities in the southern state of Guerrero. The military incursion was intended to detain members of an armed opposition group. 2009-06-22T16:51:47-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa16409.pdf?rss=actions Muhammad Basheer al-Ramaly, age 22, has been sentenced to execution by beheading, followed by crucifixion in which his body and the head are both place on a pole in a public square. Amnesty International believes his trial to have been unfair. He did not have access to a lawyer. 2009-06-22T16:46:28-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/war-on-terror/presidential-call-in-week/page.do?id=1011685&rss=actions President Obama recently rejected an independent commission into torture and endorsed indefinite detention and revised, yet still unfair, military commissions. Call the White House comment line now using our script and join Americans nationwide who are speaking in one voice to change his mind. 2009-06-22T11:10:10-05:00 http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/siteapps/advocacy/index.aspx?c=jhKPIXPCIoE&b=2590179&template=x.ascx&action=12474&rss=actions The Iranian authorities have arrested hundreds of journalists, students, opposition politicians and human rights activists. Among them is prominent human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani, a member of the Center for Defense of Human Rights and a close associate of Iranian Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi. He was arrested on June 16 and has been held in incommunicado detention at an unknown location since then. 2009-06-22T10:31:50-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa16009.pdf?rss=actions Human rights defender and lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani was abducted by plain clothes officers on June 16, 2009. He is being kept incommunicado. 2009-06-19T17:03:47-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa16209.pdf?rss=actions On June 16, the Lithuanian parliament passed a law that includes an amendment institutionalizing homophobia and violating the rights to freedom of expression and to be free from discrimination. The President has ten days to decide whether to veto the law. 2009-06-19T16:08:57-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa16309.pdf?rss=actions Yan Dongfei and Qiao Yongfang are husband and wife. They have been detained in the city of Hohhot in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in northern China and are being held incommunicado. They are at serious risk of torture and ill-treatment. 2009-06-19T15:34:54-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa15809.pdf?rss=actions Yusufjan and Memetjan, both ethnic Uighurs and students at Xinjiang University, were detained on May 10 while holding a meeting to discuss religious issues. Since the 1980s, the Uighurs, a mainly Muslim ethnic minority in northwest China, have been the target of systematic and extensive human rights violations. 2009-06-18T16:14:06-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa15909.pdf?rss=actions Eight political leaders have been abducted and kept incommunicado in Iran as a result of their perceived views on the disputed presidential election. The prisoners of conscience are in danger of torture and other ill-treatment. 2009-06-18T15:58:37-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa15709.pdf?rss=actions Iraqi nationals Raid Halassa Sakit, Abbas Fadil Abbas, Othman Ali, and Aqil Matsher are at risk of imminent execution for alleged offenses reported to have been committed while they were under the age of 18. They were convicted and sentenced to death after unfair trials. None of the four were given legal assistance or representation, and they were sentenced after secret trials. 2009-06-18T14:59:06-05:00 http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/siteapps/advocacy/index.aspx?c=jhKPIXPCIoE&b=2590179&template=x.ascx&action=12462&rss=actions Help ensure that the human right to health care gets a fair hearing -- urge Max Baucus to hold a Senate Finance Committee hearing on single payer! 2009-06-18T12:48:46-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa15409.pdf?rss=actions Members of the community of Caracoli, which consists of 100 people, in the Curvarado region of Choco Department are at risk of forced eviction. A local judge ordered the eviction despite the central government's repeated recognition that community members legally own their land and have a right to remain there. 2009-06-17T14:36:31-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa15509.pdf?rss=actions Le Cong Dinh, a human rights defender, was arrested on June 13th and charged with conducting propoganda. Dinh's arrest was solely based on his excercise of his right to freedom of expression. 2009-06-17T14:29:53-05:00 http://amnestyusa.org/actioncenter/actions/uaa15609.pdf?rss=actions Abakar Ibrahim Adam was arrested on April 14, along with a group of 13 other Darfuri people, after protests at Khartoum University against the execution of nine Darfuri men. They are known to be still in custody and are at risk of torture. 2009-06-17T14:15:21-05:00