Amnesty International USA is the US Section of Amnesty International, a worldwide human rights organization. http://www.amnestyusa.org/rss/en/news/middleeast.xml en Amnesty International Amnesty International hourly 4 http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE150212009&lang=e&rss=middleeast Israel/Gaza: Operation 'Cast Lead' - 22 Days of Death and Destruction. Facts and Figures 2009-07-02T00:00:00-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE140172009&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International strongly condemns recent attacks by armed groups which claimed the lives of dozens of civilians and injured many others 2009-06-23T00:00:00-05:00 countries=iraq http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE140162009&lang=e&rss=middleeast In a letter sent to the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Kamil al-Maliki, Amnesty International has expressed grave concern at the killing of Dr Hareth al-'Ubaidi, Vice-President of the Human Right Committee of the Iraqi parliament, and requested urgent clarification as to what steps the government has undertaken to investigate the murder 2009-06-16T00:00:00-05:00 countries=iraq http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE130532009&lang=e&rss=middleeast The Iranian presidential elections are to be held this month on 12 June 2009-06-09T00:00:00-05:00 countries=iran http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE250032009&lang=e&rss=middleeast Government authorities in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) are reported to have ordered an investigation into a serious criminal assault alleged to have been committed by a member of the ruling family, Sheikh 'Issa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, in 2004, against a man with whom he apparently had a business dispute 2009-05-15T00:00:00-05:00 countries=uae http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE130462009&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International has today called on the Iranian authorities to ensure that the forthcoming presidential election to be held on 12 June 2009 are free of discrimination -- particularly against women - and that candidates and voters are guaranteed effective exercise of their rights to freedom of expression and assembly during the election campaign 2009-05-15T00:00:00-05:00 countries=iran http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE150192009&lang=e&rss=middleeast The concluding observations of the UN Committee against Torture issued today show a worrying lack of progress in the seven years which have passed since the Committee last examined Israel's compliance with its obligations as a state party to the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (Convention against Torture) 2009-05-15T00:00:00-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE150182009&lang=e&rss=middleeast Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories: UN Security Council must move from rhetoric to concrete measures for accountability and peace 2009-05-14T00:00:00-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE240132009&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International condemns the sentencing yesterday of Mesh'al al-Tammo, a 51-year-old Kurdish activist, to three and a half years in prison for his political activities 2009-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 countries=syria http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE120232009&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International today warned that Egyptian civil society continues to face increasing harassment, as one of the oldest human rights organizations in the country is up for possible dissolution and as the Egyptian authorities are preparing new amendments to further restrict the activities of on non-governmental organizations 2009-05-07T00:00:00-05:00 countries=egypt http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE180032009&lang=e&rss=middleeast Parliamentary elections will take place in Lebanon on 7 June 2009-05-07T00:00:00-05:00 countries=lebanon http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE150172009&lang=e&rss=middleeast IOR 40/2009 2009-05-06T00:00:00-05:00 issues=UN http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE120222009&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International has challenged the Egyptian government to mark this World Press Freedom Day, 3 May, by decriminalizing freedom of expression in Egypt 2009-05-01T00:00:00-05:00 countries=egypt http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE250022009&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International has expressed grave concern to the UAE authorities about their apparent failure to date to investigate a serious criminal assault alleged to have been committed by a member of the ruling family in Abu Dhabi on a man with whom he had a business dispute 2009-04-30T00:00:00-05:00 countries=uae http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE130402009&lang=e&rss=middleeast Marking International Workers' Day on May Day 2009, Amnesty International calls on the Iranian authorities to end the repression of trade unionists by immediately releasing those imprisoned for their trade union work; dropping charges against others currently facing trial for similar reasons, and ending other repressive measures which marginalize trade unions and their members 2009-04-30T00:00:00-05:00 countries=iran http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE180022009&lang=e&rss=middleeast Lebanon: Open letter to Lebanon's political leaders urging them to place human rights at the centre of their election campaigns 2009-04-23T00:00:00-05:00 countries=lebanon http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE140122009&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International has written directly to the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki about recent developments relating to the more than 3,000 Iranian exiles currently living in Camp Ashraf, northeast of Baghdad, who Iraqi officials have said should leave the country 2009-04-20T00:00:00-05:00 countries=iraq http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGPRE200904091013&lang=e&rss=middleeast The possible reinstatement of two policemen found guilty of torture would be an implicit encouragement from the Egyptian authorities for all police officers to use torture, Amnesty International said today as it urged Egypt?s Interior Minister not to allow this. 2009-04-09T00:00:00-05:00 countries=egypt http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009040710102&lang=e&rss=middleeast Israeli And Palestinian Sides Must Fully Cooperate With The UN's Fact-Finding Mission, Said Amnesty International 2009-04-07T00:00:00-05:00 countries=israel_and_occupied_territories http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE240082009&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International welcomes the opinion by a UN body of legal experts, last week, that the detention of Syrian human rights defender, Nizar Ristnawi, is arbitrary 2009-04-02T00:00:00-05:00 countries=syria http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009040210061&lang=e&rss=middleeast A massive consignment of US munitions was delivered to Israel in recent weeks, according to information revealed by Amnesty International 2009-04-02T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE300012009&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International has protested to the Tunisian authorities over an incident last Wednesday, when security officials prevented Amnesty International Tunisia from holding a small private meeting to discuss the organization's report launched that same day: Challenging Repression: Human Rights Defenders in the Middle East and North Africa(Index MDE 01/001/2009) 2009-03-16T00:00:00-05:00 countries=tunisia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE240062009&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International condemns the sentencing yesterday of Habib Saleh, aged 61, to three years in prison for having criticized the Syrian government 2009-03-16T00:00:00-05:00 countries=syria http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGASA330012009&lang=e&rss=middleeast "The Pakistani government must immediately act on its commitment to trace hundreds of Baluch victims of enforced disappearances", Amnesty International said today 2009-02-25T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE120062009&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International condemns the bomb attack perpetrated on 22 February in the area of Khan al-Khalili in the capital Cairo, which killed at least one person and injured 25 others, most of them tourists 2009-02-23T00:00:00-05:00 countries=egypt http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE290032009&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International calls for the immediate and unconditional release of human rights defender, Chekib El-Khiari, head of the Association for Human Rights in the Rif (Association du Rif des droits de l'homme) who is in custody of the National Bureau of the Judicial Police of Casablanca since 17 February 2009 2009-02-20T00:00:00-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGPRE200902199497&lang=e&rss=middleeast Both Israel and Hamas used weapons supplied from abroad to carry out attacks on civilians 2009-02-19T00:00:00-05:00 countries=israel_and_occupied_territories http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE140072009&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International has written to the Iraqi Minister of Interior Jawad al-Bulani urging him to reveal the current whereabouts and legal status of four Iraqi nationals and former detainees who were transferred from Guantánamo Bay to Iraq by the US military authorities 2009-02-12T00:00:00-05:00 countries=iraq http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE210012009&lang=e&rss=middleeast Since the end of December 2008, during and after the Israeli military offensive which killed some 1,300 Palestinians, most of them civilians, Hamas forces and militias in the Gaza Strip have engaged in a campaign of abductions, deliberate and unlawful killings, torture and death threats against those they accuse of "collaborating" with Israel, as well as opponents and critics 2009-02-10T00:00:00-05:00 countries=palestinian authority http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE290022009&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International welcomes that after a delay of over three years a European Parliament ad hoc delegation on Western Sahara was able to conduct a "fact-finding mission" to Morocco and Western Sahara between the 25 and the 29 of January 2009-01-30T00:00:00-05:00