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Bahrain: Attack on the medical profession as doctors and nurses are arrested, detained, abducted and ill-treatedposted on: 2011/05/26

The medical profession in Bahrain has been targeted by the authorities following the recent protests calling for political reform in the Kingdom. On 3 May 2011, the Military Public Prosecution charged 24 doctors and 23 nurses and paramedics of various offences based on "investigation results" and "confessions of some of the defendants". Serious violations against the medical profession in contravention of Bahraini and international standards have included arbitrary arrest and detention, torture, abduction, beating and verbal abuse. Scores of medical personnel have been held in incommunicado detention during which they were reportedly tortured and ill-treated apparently to force them to confess to charges leveled against them.

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DRC: Human Rights Defender Abducted, Mistreatedposted on: 2010/09/08

DRC: Human Rights Defender Abducted, Mistreated - Investigate This Case and Protect All Activists at Risk

(Goma, September 8, 2010) – Congolese authorities should open a prompt, impartial, and thorough investigation of the abduction and ill-treatment of a human rights defender in North Kivu province in late August 2010, a coalition of 36 international and Congolese human rights organizations said today. The authorities should publicly condemn this act and identify and bring to justice those responsible, the coalition said.

DRC: Human Rights Defender Abducted, Mistreatedposted on: 2010/09/08

DRC: Human Rights Defender Abducted, Mistreated - Investigate This Case and Protect All Activists at Risk

(Goma, September 8, 2010) – Congolese authorities should open a prompt, impartial, and thorough investigation of the abduction and ill-treatment of a human rights defender in North Kivu province in late August 2010, a coalition of 36 international and Congolese human rights organizations said today. The authorities should publicly condemn this act and identify and bring to justice those responsible, the coalition said.

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Sylvestre Bwira Kyahi, civil society president in Masisi territory, was abducted by armed men in Congolese army uniforms traveling in a private Jeep on August 24 in the Ndosho neighborhood of Goma, North Kivu Province, information gathered by the coalition members indicated. He was found on August 30 near Sake, about 30 kilometers west of Goma.

Iran: Abduction of trade union leader and human rights defenderposted on: 2007/07/13

Human rights defender and President of Sandikaye Kargarane Sherkat-e Vahed (Syndicate of Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company), Mansour Osanloo abducted on 10 July 2007 by unknown assailants is now been held in Evin Prison, Front Line has learned.

Abducted Chechen Lawyer and Human Rights Defender Mahmut Magomad Reappearsposted on: 2005/02/23

14th February 2005: Chechen human rights defender Mahmut Magomad, abducted on 20 January, has finally reappeared. Front Line is awaiting further information on Mahmut Magomad's health and whether he has been ill-treated while in captivity.

Mahmut Magomad was abducted on 20th January by a group of camouflaged gunmen in front of his wife and children At the time of his abduction, Mr. Magomad was working on over 30 human rights cases, mainly concerning 'disappearances', torture and ill-treatment, and extra-judicial executions committed by Russian security forces. Read about the abduction of Mahmut Magomad

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Chechen Lawyer And Human Rights Defender Mahmut Magomad Abductedposted on: 2005/01/23

On 20th January, Chechen lawyer and human rights defender Mahmut Magomad was abducted by a group of camouflaged gunmen in front of his wife and children At the time of his abduction, Mr. Magomad was working on over 30 human rights cases, mainly concerning 'disappearances', torture and ill-treatment, and extra-judicial executions committed by Russian security forces. Mr. Magomad had been working to compile applications from the victims of human rights abuses for submission to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. Front Line fears that he may have been targeted as a means to silence him and prevent him from carrying out his human rights work in Chechnya.

Intimidation of Human Rights Defenders in Guatemala continues, September 2004posted on: 2004/10/20

Front Line has received a further report of an attack against the Centre for Human Rights Legal Action (CALDH), an organisation which has already been the subject of two urgent appeals sent by Front Line to the Guatemalan authorities. According to the latest report, on 11 September 2004 Mario Minera, the coordinator of CALDH’s Programme for Democratic Development, was abducted at gunpoint by two men in Guatemala City. They reportedly tied him up and threatened to kill him if he did not obey their orders and forced him in to the vehicle they were driving. He was held for half an hour during which time all his personal belongings as well as documents related to his work with CALDH were searched through. When he was released, the men returned his personal belongings but said that the CALDH documents "would be sent on later."

In view of the attacks suffered by members of CALDH in July and August this year,Front Line is seriously concerned for their safety and calls on the Guatemalan authorities to ensure their protection in accordance with the U.N Declaration on Human Rights Defenders.

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Abduction and Killing of Human Rights Defender in Chechnya, January 2004posted on: 2004/06/17

Aslan Davletukaev, a human rights defender working with the Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship in Chechnya, was reportedly forcibly abducted from his home in Chechnya on 10 January. His body was discovered on 16 January near a highway into Gudermes town. He had been shot in the back of the head and his body bore signs of torture.

Front Line has called on the Russian authorities to open an independent investigation into his abduction and killing, and has called for urgent steps to be taken to ensure the protection of human rights defenders in Chechnya.

Aslan Sheripovich Davletukaev, (born 1973), was watching television with a friend in his home in the village of Avtur, Shalinsk Region of the Chechen Republic, at around 10.15pm on 10 January. Around 50 armed men arrived in several vehicles. They were dressed in military style camouflaged clothing, but without insignia, and broke into Aslan Davletukaev's home. They forced him into one of their cars and drove him away. Witnesses reportedly stated that they thought the armed men, who spoke in Russian, were Russian Federal servicemen.

Another Chechen Human Rights Defender in Danger, January 2004posted on: 2004/06/17

Human rights defender Imran Ezhiev, head of the Information Centre of the Society of Russian-Chechen Friendship in Chechnya (SRFC) in the Northern Caucasus, is allegedly at grave risk due to his investigation of the recent kidnapping and assassination of his colleague Aslan Davletukaev, whose dead body was reportedly discovered on 16 January 2004, bearing evidence of torture and mutilation.

On 26 January 2004, it was reported that the house and workplace of Mr. Ezhiev in Ingushetia were being watched by unidentified individuals. It was also reported that he was being followed by unidentified individuals driving four cars without license plates. Cars without license plates have allegedly been used in the past to kidnap Chechen refugees, and there are concerns that when road police don't stop a car without number plates, it because it belongs to the security service of the pro-Moscow president of Chechnya, Akhmad Kadyrov.