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Ali Salem Tamek, Brahim Dahane (right), and Ahmed Naciri (below) are well-known Sahrawi activists held since October 8, 2009, on charges of “harming state security,” without trial. They were among seven activists arrested upon their return from visiting Sahrawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria. Their case was referred from civil to military court because of “undermining external state security.” They are held in the prison without trial.

Rebiya Kadeer, the most well-known spokesperson for China’s ethnic Uyghur minority and the 2004 Rafto Prize laureate, has used her five years of freedom since her release from the Chinese prison in 2005 to raise the issue of the repression Uyghurs face and their struggle for human rights. She was recently banned from entering Taiwan for three years.

Veteran radio journalist Barkhat Awale, right, was killed by crossfire on 24 August in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, according to local journalists and news reports. He is the second journalist killed on duty in the Republic of Somalia this year. The security situation worsens in Mogadishu as a result of a major offensive launched on 23 August by the Islamist militia Al-Shabaab.

Amnesty International Norway and the Union of Education share a common ambition to spread knowledge about human rights. The two organisations signed a unique agreement of cooperation in Oslo on 24 August 2010.

Chinese authorities have recaptured an 84-year-old ethnic Uyghur farmer after he escaped from detention in Beijing, where he went to protest the loss of his farmland, his son said. It was his 11th trip to protest in Beijing.

Amnesty International is urging the Syrian authorities to release or charge a Kurdish man who has been detained for almost two years. Reports from exiled Kurdish activists have raised fears that ‘Abdelbaqi Khalaf has been tortured at the hands of State Security.

The Iranian defense lawyer Mohammad Mostafaei has saved 14 condemned women and children in Iran. Now his fight for children and women’s rights put him in danger. Meet him at the Amnesty International in Oslo, Monday 16 August at 17.00.

Chen Guangcheng is a courageous blind legal advocate famous for exposing the brutal practices of forced abortion and sterilization of Chinese women. He is in detention since 2006. Chen Guangcheng is gravely ill and being denied medical treatment. His wife has visited him only once since August 2006. Amnesty International Norway urges to take action and requires releasing him.

A quarter of a million people are displaced from their homes in Georgia. They will probably never be able to return. For many, life situation is characterized by poor living conditions, war trauma, health problems and a desperate shortage of labor. New Amnesty’s International report “In the waiting room: Internally displaced people in Georgia” documents how thousands of displaced people struggle to access basic services.