Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Urgent Actions: Niger and Yemen

At our meeting this week, we did two urgent actions on Burma (this one and this one).

Below are two others that we didn't get to--one from Niger, the other from Yemen. If you have a moment, please open the links and write a letter or two.



NIGER - Ibrahim Manzo Diallo (m), journalist
    Newspaper editor Ibrahim Manzo Diallo is reportedly held incommunicado by the military at an unknown location, and is at risk of torture and ill-treatment. Amnesty International considers him to be a prisoner of conscience, detained solely for his peaceful and legitimate activities as a journalist.

YEMEN - Mohammed Ali Nasser Mohammed (m)
    Former Guantanamo detainee Mohammed Ali Nasser Mohammed was handed over by the US authorities to the Yemeni authorities on 1 October and has been detained since then in the Political Security prison in the capital, Sana’a. He has not been allowed to see his lawyers, and is in grave danger of torture or other ill-treatment.

    No charges are known to have been brought against him, and it is not clear why he is being detained.

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