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Reza Alinejad is at imminent risk of ececution for a crime he committed at the age of 17. He has been granted a month to obtain the required financial compensation to be paid to the victims family, however if he is unable to produce the 1 billion Iranian rials (or $100,000), he is likely to be executed.
James Balao, an Indigenous people's rights activist in the Phillipines disappeared in September by what members of his organization say were a group of armed men. Five legislators have now asked the Phillipine House of Representatives to conduct an investigation.
300 families from Anlong Krom village in the Kampot Province of Cambodia were forcibly evicted from their homes by large numbers of soldiers, police, military officers and Forestry ADministration officals. Some are also being treated in a hospital for physical injuries.
Alexis Sinduhije, who is President of the Movement for Security and Democracy in Burundi, was arrested on 3 November and is now being held in a prison in the capital of Bujumbura, solely for expressing his political views.
11 migrants who witnessed an armed gang kidnapping of 12 women migrants in the Oaxaca state of mexico have filed a criminal complaint with the help of Father Alejandro Solalinde Guerra. They are at risk of reprisals by those who carried out the kidnappings.
Ebrahim Mehrnehad, a member of the baluchi minority in Iran, has been sentenced to five years' imprisonment and is a possible prisoner of conscience. The three other members that were also arrested, have been released.
Patricia Orozco has received death threats and threats of sexual violence by phone and text message, in an apparent attempt to stop her from campaigning on the right of women and girls to access safe and effective sexual and reproductive health services. She is at risk of attack.
Five members of Me'phaa Indigenous People's Organization (OPIM) have been detained and charged with murder. They have been adopted as prisoners of conscience and the charges against them are believed to be politically motivated.
Several members of this group have been arrested in the capital and are held incommunicado in detention facilities where torture and ill-treatment have been reported before, thus they are at imminent risk of being mistreated.
In a landmark ruling on October 7, 2008, Judge Ricardo Urbina ordered the government to release into the USA the 17 Uighur detainees still held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The government had earlier conceded that the 17 men are not "enemy combatants", but the government appealed the order, arguing that it "directly conflicts with the basic principle that the decision whether to admit an alien into the United States rests exclusively with the Executive". PDF format
Akhtar Mohammed Mustafa and her son Melko 'Abbas Mohammed are being detained on illegitimate charges by the General Security Directorate in the Kurdistan region of Iraq. They may be subjected to torture or ill-treatment.
Seventeen Uighurs remain in indefinite military detention in the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba more than a month after a federal judge ruled that their continued detention was unlawful and ordered their release into the USA.
Dozens of activists in Saudi Arabia participated in a hunger strike on 6 and 7 November to protest against the detention and solitary confinement of nine men who are detained for their advocacy of peaceful political change and the protection and promotion of human rights, and are at risk of torture.
Four men were sentenced to death by a criminal court in Iraq on 6 November 2008. They were convicted of being responsible for a car bomb explosion on 10 March 2008. Four others were acquitted for the same crime for lack of evidence and ordered to be released by the court.
Esha Momeni was released from Tehran's Evin Prison on 10 November. Her bail of 2000 million rials (approximately US$ 200,000) was met by the deeds to her family's apartment. Her father said that she is not yet being permitted to return home to Los Angeles.
Marco Allen Chapman is scheduled to be executed in Kentucky on November 21. He was sentenced to death in December 2004 for the murder of two children in 2002. He is not appealing his death sentence. More than 130 such “volunteers” have been executed in the U.S. since 1977, a phenomenon that has been compared to state-assisted suicide. Call on Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear to prevent this “voluntary” execution. PDF format
Members of an organization set up to fight for justice for women abducted and murdered in Ciudad Juárez have received threats linked to the opening a film loosely based on the stories of the murdered women. Members of the group have supported the film's release as a way of raising awareness of the killings.
Five children in Gaza need urgent heart surgery. A team of heart specialists is currently conducting a week of surgery in Jerusalem but Israeli authorities have not allowed these children's guardians to leave Gaza, therefore, they have been unable to receive the urgent medical care they need.
Three men were arrested in Saudi Arabia in 2004 and sentenced to death on drug smuggling charges. Their confessions were extracted through torture and they were allowed no legal assistance during their trials. They have exhausted all their appeals and could be executed at any time.
Human rights activist Miguel Arturo Albizures Pedrosa and a member of a Guatemala City student organization were involved in a demonstration which disrupted a government rally on 20 October. Both were attacked a few days later. They, their families and their colleagues are in grave danger.
Paramilitaries have attempted to kill one of the leaders of the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, in the north-western department of Antioquia. Paramilitaries operating in the area have also threatened to kill members of the community if they do not leave the area.
Robert Hudson is scheduled to be executed in Texas on 20 November. He was sentenced to death in 2000 after a questionable trial. The clemency petition urges the Board of Pardons and Paroles to recommend that the Governor commute Hudson's death sentence to life imprisonment.
Investigative journalist Luiz Carlos Barbon, who had reported on official corruption, was murdered in May 2007. His wife, Katia Camargo, is being threatened by people linked to her husband's killers, some of whom are still at liberty. She and her children are in grave danger.
Robert Jean Hudson took responsibility for the murder he committed, but his trial attorneys did little to present mitigating evidence that might have prevented him from being sentenced to death. His would be the last of 6 executions in Texas this November. Call on Texas authorities to grant clemency in this case, and express your concern for the large number of executions Texas continues to carry out. PDF format | RTF format
Soheila Ghadiri, one of five women sentenced to death in Iran, has been pardoned and has had her death sentence commuted. Four other women are still at risk of execution.
Falun Gong practitioner Chen Zhenping was arrested without warrant on July 9, 2008 at her home in the city of Zhengzhou, Henan province. Her family has not been allowed to visit her, and it is unclear where is is now held.
Zulfiqar Ali was arrested on 14 April 1998 on a charge of murder. According to a Pakistani NGO, his family could not afford to hire a lawyer to represent him. It is unclear if he was given the option to be assisted by a defense lawyer. If not, his trial would be in breach of international fair trial standards.
The Israeli army demolished six homes and other structures on 29 October, leaving 45 Palestinians homeless in the occupied West Bank. The health of these homeless families are a growing concern with the onset of winter.
Lorna Redell Jackson García and Juana Leticia Maldonaldo Gutíerrez and other members of the motor vehicle workers? trade union SITRAFL have been shot at and received death threats. All of them are in grave danger, and they have gone into hiding.
David Boniface, a school teacher and human rights activist in the community of Les Irois is receiving death threats. 15 months ago the mayor and his police broke into David's house and, when they could not find him, murdered his brother. David and his family have fled Les Irois but are in danger.
On 14 October Walberto Hoyos Rivas, a leader of the Afro-descendant community in the Curvaradó region of Chocó Department in North-West Colombia, was killed, reportedly by members of the paramilitary group, the Black Eagles. All members of this community are considered to be at risk.
Norma Cruz, an active women's human rights defender, and her relatives have been attacked and even threatened at gun point more than once. The safety of Norma Cruz, her colleagues and relatives, is at risk.
Alireza Serrafi, Hassan Rashidi, Sa'id Mohammadi Mughanli, and Mehdi Na'imi still remain detained and at risk of torture and other ill-treatment after the other five activists who were arrested at the same time have been conditionally released.
Fourteen Palestinian citizens suffering from terminal diseases are at risk of death without proper medical attention. Israeli authorities have refused them authorization to leave the Gaza Strip and seek medical care.
Cipriano Nguema Mba, a former army colonel of Equatorial Guinea, is at risk of enforced disappearance, torture or ill-treatment, and might be held incommunicado in Black Beach prison in Malabo. He is recognized as a refusee by the UNHCR.
Juan Manuel Martínez is is currently in prison, where he is at risk of torture in order to force him to confess to the 2006 murder of US video-journalist Brad Will. Amnesty International is also concerned that he may not be granted adequate access to a lawyer of his choice and members of his family.
Jamila Nabgan was arrested without charge on 19 October. Her arrest seems linked to help the Iranian authorities believe she gave her sister-in-law to flee Iran in May 2008. Jamila's whereabouts are unknown and she is at risk of torture.
Prevent Unjust Deportation of Man to Syria (UA 285/08)
Imad Al Husin's citizenship to Bosnia-Herzegovina was revoked in 2001 and he has been appealing the Federation's decision through the courts ever since. The government threatens to deport him to Syria where he will be a risk of torture.
Imad Al Husin's citizenship to Bosnia-Herzegovina was revoked in 2001 and he has been appealing the Federation's decision through the courts ever since. The government threatens to deport him to Syria where he will be a risk of torture.
Troy Davis was sentenced to death for the murder of Police Officer Mark Allen MacPhail at a Burger King in Savannah, Georgia; a murder he maintains he did not commit. There was no physical evidence against him and the weapon used in the crime was never found. The case against him consisted entirely of witness testimony which contained inconsistencies even at the time of the trial. Since then, all but two of the state's witnesses from the trial have recanted or contradicted their testimony.
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.
Makhmadsalors Delilovich Masaev was abducted by men in camouflage uniform. He has been subjected to enforced disappearance and is at risk of torture and other ill-treatment. He may also be pressured into withdrawing the complaints he made to the authorities.
Six children with ages ranging from five months to six years are all suffering from serious heart conditions known as holes in the heart. They must travel to Jerusalem in order to receive the treatment they need, however their families have been denied permission to enter Jerusalem by Isreali authorities.
One of three juvenile offenders on death row in Iran has been released by the family of the victim, agreeing that he was not the victim. Urgent support is needed to ensure that these other two young men are spared the death penalty.
Negin Sheikholeslami, a human rights activist from the Kurdish minority in Iran, was arrested at her home in Tehran by members of the security forces at about midnight on 4 October 2008. She is at risk of torture or other ill-treatment and needs medical attention for her respiratory problems.
Valeri Pal's supporters believe the government fabricated a theft case against him to punish him for his social activism and that his trial fell short of international standards for fairness. He has suffered both a paralyzing stroke and a heart attack and is in need of urgent medical treatment.
In a landmark ruling on 7 October 2008, Judge Ricardo Urbina of the US District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the government to release into the USA the 17 Uigher detainees still held in the US Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
