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=ENGMDE180062008&lang=e&rss=middleeast On the eve of the expected decision in the case against lawyer and human rights defender Muhamad Mugraby in which he is accused of slandering a public official, Amnesty International is calling on the Lebanese authorities to drop the charge 2008-11-26T00:00:00-05:00 countries=lebanon http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE300122008&lang=e&rss=middleeast The hunger strike staged since 2 October by former political prisoner, Abdellatif Bouhajila, to protest against the authorities' denial to grant him access to medical care and to issue him a passport is a stark reminder of the harassment faced by former political prisoners in Tunisia, said Amnesty International today 2008-11-14T00:00:00-05:00 countries=tunisia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE150452008&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International is concerned that the spate of Israeli and Palestinian attacks and counter-attacks in the past 24 hours could spell the end of a five-and-a-half-month ceasefire and put the civilian populations of Gaza and southern Israel once again in the line of fire 2008-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE131632008&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International condemns the Iranian authorities' execution of Gholamreza H 2008-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 countries=iran http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE240332008&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International is calling on the US authorities to investigate reports that a cross-border raid from Iraq into Syria by US forces on Sunday killed eight civilians, including one child, in a village east of Damascus, and to disclose whether prisoners were taken during the attack, as one report suggests 2008-10-30T00:00:00-05:00 countries=syria http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE240322008&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International condemns today's sentencing by a Syrian criminal court of 12 pro-democracy activists to two and a half years in prison 2008-10-29T00:00:00-05:00 countries=syria http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE290152008&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International is urging the Moroccan authorities to order the release and drop the charge against Yassine Bellasal, an 18 year old student, sentenced to a one year prison term for allegedly insulting Morocco's King, and to investigate allegations that he was beaten and threatened in police custody following his arrest 2008-10-29T00:00:00-05:00 issues=STUDENTS,FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION,FEAR OF TORTURE OR ILL-TREATMENT http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE250072008&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International is seeking urgent clarification regarding the whereabouts and legal status of 20 to 30 young men arrested in early October 2008 in the town of Khor Fakkan in the Emirate of Sharjah and surrounding areas located in the Emirate of Fujairah, both of which form part of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) 2008-10-24T00:00:00-05:00 countries=uae http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE240312008&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International welcomes the opening of an investigation into the killing of Sami Ma'touq and Joni Suleiman by Syrian security forces in the village of al-Mishrefeh, near the city of Homs, on 14 October 2008, but is seriously concerned by reports that the scene of the incident was tampered with yesterday 2008-10-21T00:00:00-05:00 countries=syria http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE131542008&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International deplores the re-affirmation by a senior Iranian judicial official that Iran will continue to judicially execute juvenile offenders, clarifying a misleading statement he made on 16 October 2008-10-20T00:00:00-05:00 countries=iran http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE140262008&lang=e&rss=middleeast Iraq: New evidence further undermines the right to fair trial 2008-10-09T00:00:00-05:00 countries=iraq http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200809015847&lang=e&rss=middleeast Sussan Tahmasebi, founding member, Campaign for Equality. This Iranian women's movement seeks to change all gender-biased laws in Iran. Its 'One Million Signatures Campaign' will show that one million Iranians want women to have equal rights. 2008-09-01T00:00:00-05:00 countries=iran http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE210032008&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International today called on rival Palestinian leaders in the West Bank and Gaza Strip to end arbitrary arrests and detentions and prevent the torture or other ill-treatment of detainees 2008-07-29T00:00:00-05:00 countries=palestinian_authority http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE131032008&lang=e&rss=middleeast The Iranian judiciary should immediately halt all executions of juvenile offenders and Iran's parliament should move swiftly to ban such executions, a group of human rights organizations said today 2008-07-29T00:00:00-05:00 countries=iran http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE290122008&lang=e&rss=middleeast Human Rights Lawyer Facing Disciplinary Charges 2008-07-23T00:00:00-05:00 countries=morocco_and_western_sahara http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE150292008&lang=e&rss=middleeast 2008-07-23T00:00:00-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE190072008&lang=e&rss=middleeast In a letter addressed to the Libyan authorities on 11 July, Amnesty International urged the authorities not to return involuntarily any Eritrean asylum-seekers to their country, where they would be at grave risk of torture and other serious human rights violations 2008-07-11T00:00:00-05:00 countries=libya http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE150282008&lang=e&rss=middleeast on the OPT should be made comprehensive 2008-07-11T00:00:00-05:00 issues=UNHCR,HUMAN RIGHTS INSTRUMENTS,IMPUNITY http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE240182008&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International is calling upon the Syrian authorities to establish immediately an independent body to investigate reports that at least 23 detainees were killed in disturbances which have been taking place since 5 July in Sednaya Military Prison, near Damascus 2008-07-07T00:00:00-05:00 issues=DEATH IN CUSTODY,INVESTIGATION OF ABUSES http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE300102008&lang=e&rss=middleeast A former prisoner and alleged torture victim whose case was cited in Amnesty International's recent report on human rights abuses in Tunisia, and two Tunisian lawyers who shared their experience as defence lawyers at a Paris press conference organized by Amnesty International to launch this report, have since been subjected to what appears to be reprisal by the Tunisian authorities 2008-07-02T00:00:00-05:00 issues=HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS,INCOMMUNICADO DETENTION,HARASSMENT http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE150262008&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International deplores the Israeli authorities' continuing refusal to allow leading Palestinian human rights activist Shawan Jabarin to travel outside the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), and is calling for the immediate removal of this restriction 2008-07-01T00:00:00-05:00 issues=RESTRICTION ON MOVEMENT,HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE240172008&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International deplores the sentencing this week of Muhammad Bedia' Dekalbab, a member of the unauthorized National Organization for Human Rights, to six months' imprisonment 2008-07-01T00:00:00-05:00 issues=PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE120142008&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International wrote today to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak calling on him to urgently intervene to stop any further forcible returns of Eritrean asylum-seekers from Egypt back to Eritrea and to ensure that Egypt honours its commitment to allow a meaningful access to the asylum-seekers by the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Egypt 2008-06-20T00:00:00-05:00 issues=FEAR OF REFOULEMENT,REFUGEES,FEAR OF TORTURE OR ILL-TREATMENT http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE290092008&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International welcomes that after two years spent in prison, Brahim Sabbar, a prominent Sahrawi human rights defender, has recovered his freedom and remains determined to continue his human rights work 2008-06-17T00:00:00-05:00 issues=HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS,FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION,POLICE http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE300082008&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International calls upon the Tunisian authorities to launch immediately a thorough, independent, and impartial investigation into the killing of youth Hafnaoui Maghdhaoui on 6 June, as well as the injury of around 20 others and to make public the results of such an investigation 2008-06-09T00:00:00-05:00 issues=POLICE,USE OF EXCESSIVE FORCE,DEMONSTRATIONS http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE150202008&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International is again calling on the Israeli government to end reckless attacks by its forces on populated areas and to order an immediate, independent investigation into yesterday's strikes in Gaza which killed six Palestinians, including four children under five and their mother 2008-04-29T00:00:00-05:00 issues=CHILDREN,MILITARY,INVESTIGATION OF ABUSES,CIVIL UNREST http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE290082008&lang=e&rss=middleeast Allegations of torture of Sahrawi human rights defender must be investigated 2008-04-25T00:00:00-05:00 issues=HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS,NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS,DEPORTATION http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE160012008&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International has written to the Jordanian authorities expressing its concern over what appear to be disproportionately lenient sentences received in March by two men convicted of killing close female relatives 2008-04-23T00:00:00-05:00 http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE280022008&lang=e&rss=middleeast Amnesty International deplores the prosecution of Amine Sidhoum, a lawyer and well-known human rights defender, who was convicted yesterday, 13 April 2008, of bringing the Algerian judiciary into disrepute 2008-04-14T00:00:00-05:00 issues=FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION,HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGMDE130612008&lang=e&rss=middleeast The ITUC, ITF and Amnesty international today welcomed the release from Sanandaj prison, in Iran's Kordestan Province, of independent labour activist Mahmoud Salehi, after one year of imprisonment 2008-04-08T00:00:00-05:00 issues=HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS,TRADE UNIONISTS,RELEASE