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Miriam Lpez
Miriam fears showing her face
after horrendous treatment bysoldiers.
Agencia Reforma
On 2 February 2011, 30-year-old
Miriam Isaura Lpez Vargas dropped
her children off at school in Ensenada,
Baja California state. Two men wearing
balaclavas suddenly appeared and
grabbed her.
The men, who were later identified as
soldiers, tied her up, blindfolded her,
and drove her to a military barracks inthe city of Tijuana. For a week, a
civilian prosecutor of the Federal
Attorney Generals Office directed
intensive questioning of Miriam Lpez
and soldiers raped her repeatedly. The
torture included electric shocks and
threats to her family. It finally stopped
after she signed a statement that
falsely implicated her in drug offences.
Miriam Lpez spent seven months in
prison while waiting for a trial that
never began. She was released without
any charges against her.
The National Commission of Human
Rights investigated Miriams case and
has called for justice and
compensation. The authorities have
provided some police protection for
Miriam and a few counselling sessions.
However, despite the fact that she has
identified some of the perpetrators and
their accomplices, no one has been
brought to justice for the sexualviolence and other forms of torture she
suffered.
Miriam Lpez is one of many people
who have been similarly captured and
tortured. Between 2006 and 2012, the
National Human Rights Commission
revealed that reports of torture and
ill-treatment rose by 500 per cent in
Mexico between 2006 and 2012.
Convictions are rare.
MEXICONo one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Article 3, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Activate your pens and your keyboards! Please write a
letter to the federal Attorney General.Start with Dear Attorney General.
Describe who you are and what concerns you
about the torture Miriam Lpez experienced and
how the perpetrators have so far gone unpunished.
Urge him to carry out a full, prompt and impartial
investigation into the torture of Miriam Lpez in
February of 2011.
Ask him to make sure that the results of the
investigation are made public and that those who
were responsible for torturing her are brought to
justice.
What else can I do?
On Miriams Facebook page, bit.ly/miriamlopez, click Like and leave a message
such as Miriam, remember that you are not alone in this struggle. I am with you.
or Courage, Miriam! Your fight can help others. Include your name and country.
If you do not have access to Facebook, you may mail a greeting to Miriam on a non-
religious card. You may mention Amnesty International and you may include your
return address. Send your greeting to
Miriam Lpez
Comisin Mexicana de Defensa y Promocin
de los Derechos Humanos
Tehuantepec 142
Col. Roma Sur, C.P. 06760
Mexico City, Mexico
Send your letter to:
Jess Murillo Karam
Procuradura General de la Repblica
Paseo de la Reforma 211-213
Col. Cuauhtmoc, C.P. 06500
Mexico City, MexicoPostage: $1.85Fax: 011 52 55 5346 0908(This number is hard to reach. If you are suc-cessful and a voice answers, say Fax por favor.)
Email: [email protected]
Please make a copy for:Honourable John Baird
Minister of Foreign Affairs
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
Postage: None requiredEmail:[email protected]: (613) 996-9880(At the top of the copy, write something likePlease call for justice for Miriam Lpez. Canadamust help end torture in Mexico.
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Village of Nabi Saleh
Nariman Tamimi
raises her voice at a
Friday protest.
Welcome to the village of Nabi Saleh. About
550 Palestinians live here. As you approach,
you notice farmland surrounding the village,
where olive trees grow well. And it is blessed
with a natural spring. But there is a problem.
Israeli settlers moved onto the land in 1977
without permission from the villagers. They
established their own settlement called
Halamish. The settler population has grown
to 1,600 and they are now using thefarmland. They also turned the spring into a
tourist attraction and will not let the
Palestinians access water from it. The Israeli
army has established a military base there,
as well.
Every Friday since 2009 when they lost
access to the spring, the villagers have
organized non-violent demonstrations. They
protest against Israels military occupation
and the illegal Israeli settlement of
Halamish.
The Israeli army responds to the villagers
peaceful protests with excessive and
unnecessary force.
So far they have injured hundreds, including
women and children. Two people have died.
During a Friday protest in November 2012,
Israeli soldiers shot Rushdi Tamimi in the
back. Video evidence shows that Israeli sol-
diers delayed his familys effort to transport
him to hospital by ambulance. He died two
days later.
A military investigation into the incident
shows that soldiers fired over 80 live roundsat Palestinian protesters that day. Mustafa
Tamimi died in hospital one day after a
Friday protest in December 2011. A soldier
in an armoured military jeep had fired a tear
gas canister at his face.
In addition to the excessive force at protests,
the Israeli army intimidates the villagers at
other times. They occasionally carry out night
raids, arrest children, restrict the residents
movements by declaring Nabi Saleh a closed
military zone, and fire tear gas and other
weapons at homes to cause injury and
damage.
OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN
TERRITORIES:
Everyone has the right tosecurity of person.
No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.
Articles 3 and 17, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Activate your pens and your keyboards!
Please write a letter to Israels Minister of Defence.
Start with Dear Minister.
Describe who you are and what concerns you about
the intrusion of Israeli settlers and army on
Palestinian land.
Ask the Minister to stop the excessive and
unnecessary force by the Israeli security forces
against demonstrators in Nabi Saleh.
Urge him to ensure that security officers responsible
for the killings of Mustafa Tamimi and Rushdi
Tamimi, and for the injury of others in the village,
are brought to justice.
What else can I do?
Support from abroad boosts the spirits of the villagers. Send a letter or a card to
them via the co-ordinator of the Nabi Saleh Popular Resistance Committee:
Naji Tamimi
Nabi Saleh
Birzeit/RamallahPalestine
Apart from religious cards, any card is fine. You may mention Amnesty International
and you may include your return address. Here is a sample message: We stand by
you in dignity and for freedom and justice.
Or leave a message of support on the village
Facebook page: bit.ly/nabi-saleh
Send your letter to:
Minister of Defence Moshe Yaalon
Ministry of Defence
37 Kaplan Street, Hakirya
Tel Aviv 61909, Israel
Fax: 011 972 3 691 6940Email: [email protected] : @bogie_yaalonPostage: $1.85
Please make a copy for:
Her Excellency Miriam Ziv
Ambassador for Israel
50 O'Connor Street, Suite 1005
Ottawa, Ontario K1P 6L2
Postage: $.63Fax: (613) 567-9878E-mail: [email protected]
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The Bolotnaya 3 DetaineesMeet the Bolotnaya 3. We use that name
for them because it was in Moscows
Bolotnaya Square that Vladimir Aki-
menkov, Artiom Saviolov and Mikhail
Kosenko were detained during an
authorized protest on 6 May 2012.
Authorities soon released the Bolotnaya
3, but rearrested them in June 2012.
They have been in custody ever since and
their imprisonment has badly affectedtheir health. Vladimir Akimenkov is losing
his eyesight. Artiom Saviolovs speech
impediment is reportedly getting worse in
detention. Mikhail Kosenko is not
receiving medication he needs regularly.
The Bolotnaya 3 have been charged with
participating in mass riots. Both Artiom
Saviolov and Mikhail Kosenko are also
accused of using force against policeofficers. All three firmly deny the
charges. They also deny acting violently
or in a disorderly fashion.
Video footage supports their claims.
Police statements made against Vladimir
Akimenkov and Artiom Savelov during the
investigation differ from what was later
said in court.
Amnesty International believes that all
three men are prisoners of conscience.
Vladimir Akimenkov may be held only
because of his prior political activism.
The Bolotnaya Square protest was thefirst time Artiom Saviolov had ever
gone to a demonstration. He is
accused of breaking through the
police line and shouting Down with
the police state! something that he
explained would not be possible
because of his stutter.
Mikhail Kosenko is accused of
severely beating a police officer. He
remains in custody even thoughanother man has been convicted of
the beating and even though the
officer later said that he had never
seen Mikhail Kosenko before.
RUSSIA:
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest
Article 9, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Activate your pens and your keyboards!
Please write a letter to the Prosecutor General.
Start with Dear Prosecutor General.
Describe who you are and what concerns you
about the continued detention of Vladimir
Akimenkov, Artiom Saviolov and Mikhail
Kosenko and about the effects on theirhealth.
Ask the Prosecutor General to immediately
and unconditionally release the three men.
What else can I do?
Lift the spirits of Vladimir Akimenkov, Artiom Saviolov and Mikhail Kosenko. Send
each one a bright card or postcard. Create a short greeting in English. Or translate it
into Russian either by asking a Russian speaker for help or using trans-
late.google.com.
Address your message to
[Insert name of prisoner]
Pre-trial detention facility
SIZO-2 Butyrka
ul. Novoslobodskaya, 45
Moscow 127055, Russian Federation
Send your letter to:
Yurii Yakovlevich Chaika
Prosecutor Generals Office
ul. B. Dmitrovka, d.15a
125993 Moscow GSP- 3
Russian FederationPostage: $1.85
Please make a copy for:
His Excellency Georgy Mamedov
Ambassador for the Russian Federation
285 Charlotte Street
Ottawa, Ontario K1N 8L5
Postage: $.63Fax: (613) 236-6342Email: [email protected]
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Jabeur Mejri
Jabeur Mejri is serving a
seven-and-a-half year sentence forcreating Facebook posts
that expressed his views of religion
Private
Jabeur Mejri logged onto Facebookduring the first day or two of March2012. He posted a picture of the prophetMohamed and published articles criticalof Islam.
Punishment was quick. Lawyers saw theposts and filed a complaint. Policeofficers arrested Jabeur Mejri on 5 March
2012. Authorities charged him withharming or insulting others throughpublic telecommunication networks,
attacking sacred values through actions
or words and undermining public
morals. By the end of March, he had
begun serving a sentence ofseven-and-a-half years in Mahdia prison.
International human rights law protectsthe act of expressing ideas that some
people think are offensive.
The ability to criticize religious and otherbeliefs and ideas is a vital component ofthe right to freedom of expression. WhileJabeur Mejris posts may have offended
some Muslims, they non-violentlyreflected his views.
Amnesty International considers29-year-old Jabeur Mejri to be a prisoner
of conscience, held for peacefullyexercising his right to freedom of opinionand expression.
Jabeur Mejri is not the first to bepersecuted under Articles 121(3) and226 of the Penal Code and Article 86 ofthe Telecommunications Code. Since2011, Tunisian authorities have used theCodes to restrict freedom of expressionfor journalists, artists and bloggers,
among others.
Please ask the president of Tunisia tofree Jabeur Mejri.
TUNISIAEveryone has the right to freedom of thought,
conscience, religion, opinion and expression.
Articles 18 & 19, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Activate your pens and your keyboards!Please write a letter to Tunisias president.
Start with Your Excellency.Describe who you are and what concerns youabout the imprisonment of Jabeur Mejri onlyfor peacefully using his right to freely express
his views.Ask the president to release Jabeur Mejriwithout delay or any conditions on hisfreedom.
What else can I do?
Jabeur Mejris family says he is dispirited and is feeling lonely and forgotten.Sendhim a greeting. Apart from religious cards, any kind of message is fine. You maymention Amnesty International and you may include your return address.
Tell him about your community, your family, your activities. Tell him that you arethinking of him on Human Rights Day. Or write this in your own words:I stand in solidarity with you as a prisoner of conscience, imprisoned only for exer-
cising your right to freedom of expression.
Mail your message with $1.85 postage to:Jabeur MejriPrison civile de MahdiaRoute de Chiba 5100
Mahdia, Tunisie
Send your letter to:
Prsident Moncef Marzouki *Palais PrsidentielTunisTunisie
Postage: $1.85Fax: 011 216 71 744 721Email: [email protected]* Note of interest:President Marzouki used to head the Tunisian League ofHuman Rights and was himself a POC in 1994.
Please make a copy for:
His Excellency Riadh EssidAmbassador for Tunisia515 OConnor StreetOttawa, Ontario K1S 3P8
Postage : $.63Fax: (613) 237-7939Email: [email protected]
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Dr. Tun Aung
Amnesty International
has determined that Dr. Tun Aung is
a prisoner of conscience, targeted
because he is a
Muslim community leader.
Private
It was tense in the western Myanmar town of
Maungdaw, Rakhine State on 8 June 2012.
Relations between the towns communities
the Rakhine Buddhists and the Rohingya
Muslims were deteriorating rapidly. Each
group suspected that the other group had
killed some of their people. The police
expected violence so they called on a re-
spected medical doctor in the community to
help them keep peace. His name is Dr. Tun
Aung.
Rioting did start, and it was violent. People
present say that Dr. Tun Aung actively tried
to calm the crowd. He tried to tell them that
the government was setting up an investiga-
tion into the killing of the Muslims. But the
crowd of thousands, mostly Rohingya Mus-
lims, was out of control and many were not
prepared to listen.
When Rakhine (pronounced ra-hine) Bud-
dhists hurled threats at him, he and his fam-ily felt nervous. They accepted an offer of a
drive home from an immigration official but
instead, the official took them to immigration
headquarters.
Officials there released his family within
hours but held Dr. Tun Aung. They were
likely looking for someone to blame after the
violence ended.
For several weeks no one knew where he was.
His family finally learned that he was in
Rakhine states Sittwe prison, 170km from
his hometown of Maungdaw. The 65-year-old
grandfather is still there today. The distance
makes it very difficult for his family to travelfor the 20-minute prison visit they are
sometimes allowed. It is also a challenge for
them to provide him with medicine and food
to supplement the inadequate prison diet.
Legal representation was inadequate at
Dr. Tun Aungs trial. He first received a
prison sentence of 11 years but the
prosecution appealed and the sentence is
now 17 years.
Dr. Tun Aung suffers from a pituitary tumourfor which he may not be receiving the
medication and medical attention required to
manage this condition.
MYANMARNo one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrestArticle 9, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Activate your pens and your keyboards!
Please send a letter or fax to the president.
Start with Your Excellency.
Describe who you are and what concerns you
about the continued detention of Dr. Tun Aung.
Insist on his release, since he is a prisoner of
conscience who has not committed, nor
promoted, any violence.Until he is free, you could ask for proper care
for his pituitary tumour. You could also request
his transfer to Insein prison so that he is able
to have regular family visits.
What else can I do?
Send a greeting toDr Tun Aungs family. They may be able to share it with him in
the future.
Mail it toDr Tun Aungs family
Amnesty International
3-1992 Yonge StreetToronto ON M4S 1Z7
Apart from religious cards, any card is fine. You may mention Amnesty International.
Or you could post a video or photo with your message of support on Dr Tun Aungs
tumblr page where his family will see it: myanmar-w4r.tumblr.com. Tell them who
you are, where you are writing from, and what action you have taken for Dr Tun
Aung.
Send your letter to
President Thein Sein
Nay Pyi Taw
Republic of the Union of Myanmar
Postage: $1.85Email via online contact form:www.president-office.gov.mm/contact
Please send a copy to
His Excellency Hau Do Suan
Ambassador for Myanmar
336 Island Park Drive
Ottawa, Ontario K1Y 0A7Postage: $.63Fax: (613) 232-6999
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Community of Badia East
Bimbo Omowole Osobe is 55.
Since the demolition, she has slept inthe open under a net.
Social and Economic Rights Action
Center
Disaster struck the large community ofBadia East on the edge of Lagos on 23February 2013. Shocked residentswatched bulldozers demolish 266 of theirhomes. Most were not allowed to evenrescue their belongings. A few residentstried to resist but police officers beatthem.
Lagos state officials had identified thearea for slum upgrading in a projectfunded by the World Bank. The officialshad ordered the eviction and police werepresent to support the demolition. Oneofficer warned If you love your life, moveout! No one had given the families,small shop owners and traders advancewarning. No one had consulted them. Noone had prepared alternateaccommodation for them.
The anguish has not stopped. Many ofthe residents are still living in the open orcamping in makeshift shelters.
Officials have returned more than once todestroy some of the shelters. In March,officers also arrested five people whowere building an emergency water tankafter a bulldozer had ruptured the pipecarrying water to the community. Theyeventually released the five.
The residents have yet to receive
compensation and the offer of newhomes. They are without access to legalremedies.
Badia East is just one of manycommunities across Nigeria that hasbeen torn apart by forced evictions inrecent years. Large-scale evictions andhouse demolitions have occurred withoutrespect for human rights standards. Manyare living today with the constant threat
that their own homes will be destroyed.
Pay a visit to Badia East at www.Amnesty.org/en/
library/info/AFR44/009/2013/en.
NIGERIAEveryone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health
and well-being of himself and of his family, includinghousing.
Article 25, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Activate your pens and your keyboards!Please write to the governor of Lagos State.
Start with Your Excellency. Describe who you are and what concerns you
about Februarys demolition in Badia East. Ask Governor San to stop all forced evictions. Insist that all residents evicted from their homes
in February 2013 receive compensation andalternative housing.
Send your letter to:Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola SanOffice of the Governor of Lagos StateState Government SecretariatAlausa, IkejaLagos State, NigeriaPostage: $1.85Twitter handle: @tundefasholaSuggested tweet: Compensate #BadiaEast resi-dents after home demolitions in Lagos State,#Nigeria. #endforcedevictions
Please make a copy for:
His Excellency Ojo Uma MaduekweHigh Commissioner for Nigeria295 Metcalfe StreetOttawa, Ontario K2P 1R9Postage: $.63Fax: (613) 236-0529Email via website: http://www.nigeriahcottawa.ca/nhc2/index.php/en/welcome-to-nhc/contact-us
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What else can I do?The Badia East residents need to know there is international concern for what has happened tothem. Send letters, cards or photos of yourself with one of these messages.Try your hand at writing in Yoruba!
1. We support the Badia East community.2. Housing is a human right.3. End forced evictions.
Add your name and Canada but do not include your full return address. (If you wish to use a returnaddress, you may use the address for Amnesty Internationals office in Toronto: 3-1992 Yonge,Toronto, Canada M4S 1Z7.) Apart from religious cards, any kind of card is fine. You may mentionAmnesty International.
Mail your message with $1.85 postage toBadia East Technical CommitteeC/o Social and Economic Rights Action CenterPlot 758, Chief Thomas Adeboye DriveOmole Phase 2, Isheri
Lagos State, Nigeria
A w lhn won ar l orn Bdt omo nyn ni il gbgb
E fi pin s k fi ip l nyn jde n il
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Ihar Tsikhanyuk
I dont want to hide myself.
I live openly. It is not easy in Belarus,
but I want to show people that I am a
person like everybody. With my example
I want to show that it is possible to live
openly. - Ihar Tsikhanyuk
Ihar Tsikhanyuk
Early last February, Ihar Tsikhanyuk
was in hospital receiving treatment for
a stomach ulcer. Two police officers in
plain clothes came into the ward and
took him away to a district police
station. There, officers punched him
again and again. They also made fun of
him for being gay, and threatened him
with more violence.
Ihar Tsikhanyuk (pronounced Eehar
Tsi-han-yuk) is a 26-year-old openly gay
man and gay rights activist who lives in
Hrodna. He promotes the rights of
lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and
intersex people in Belarus.
Ihar Tsikhanyuks seizure from the
hospital and his beating occurred a few
weeks after he tried to formally register
the existence of the Human RightsCentre Lambda.
The Centre supports the rights of
LGBTI people. He had also attended a
meeting of the human rights project
Gay Belarus in Minsk in December
2012.
The director of the hospital ward
phoned the police station and
demanded Ihar Tsikhanyuks return.
A police officer drove him back but noone documented the injuries from his
beating. He made a formal complaint
about his treatment by police but in
mid-March, the Prosecutors office
informed him that there was not
enough evidence to start an
investigation.
Ihar Tsikhanyuk needs your support to
make sure the police officers who
ill-treated him are brought to justice.The attention you give will also help to
protect him and other LGBTI activists
from further harassment.
BELARUSEveryone has the right to peaceful assembly and association.
Article 20, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Russian riot police scufe with
protestors in Moscow who opposegovernment policies.
Reuters/Denis Sinyakov
Freedoms are under threat in Russia,even though they are guaranteed by theconstitution. Rights to freedom ofexpression, association, and assemblyhave been attacked increasingly sinceVladimir Putin returned to office asPresident of the Russian Federation inMarch 2012.
Being out and loud and proud can land
you in prison. In late June,St. Petersburg police broke up a lawfulgathering of people interested in lesbian,gays, bisexual, transgendered andintersex rights. Anti-gay protestors andpolice assaulted them. On June 30,Russia passed a law banning"propaganda of non-traditional sexual re-
lations".
It's getting harder to protest in Russia.
Complicated approval procedures make itdifficult to organize events and restrictthe right to freedom of assembly. Manyprotests have been arbitrarily banned ordispersed.
Defamation was re-criminalized on June30th, and new laws on treason andblasphemy were passed. Singing aprotest song in a cathedral can lead totwo years in prison--exactly whathappened to Pussy Riot.
It is more difficult than ever to operate anon-governmental organization. Russiangroups that receive funding from outside
the country must describe themselves as"foreign agents" if they engage in loosely-defined political activity. Freedom ofassociation is under attack as officialsconduct inspections of organizationsoffices, impose heavy fines and suspendactivities of at least one group. Many fearthey will be shut down.
The Winter Olympic Games are beingheld in Sochi, Russia from February
7-23, 2014. The Olympic flame canthrow light on the human rights violationsthat Russia authorities would prefer tohide behind the celebrations.
Freedom under ThreatRUSIA
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrestArticle 9, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Activate your pens and your keyboards!Please write a letter to President Putin c/o theembassy in Ottawa. Start with Dear President Putin. Describe who you are and what concerns you
about the increasing number of attacks on civilsociety and on the rights to freedom of expression,assembly and association. Ask him to get rid of laws that (choose two orthree) Re-criminalize libel, Restrict public protests, Broaden the legal definition of treason and
espionage to target opponents, Oblige NGOs to register as foreign agents,
Make propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors anoffence, Criminalize the act of insulting the religious feelings of believers.
Tell President Putin that you expect him to uphold the rights to freedom ofexpression, association and assembly in Russia.
Send your letter to:
President Vladamir Putin
c/o His Excellency Georgiy MamedovEmbassy of the Russian Federation285 Charlotte StreetOttawa, Ontario K1N 8L5
Postage: $.63Fax: (613) 236-6342E-mail: [email protected]
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