Like thousands of Egyptians, Amr Abdallah Al-Beheiry is waiting for justice. One year after the “25 January Revolution”, it seems further away than ever.
On the 2 June 2004 Hamad al-Neyl Abu Kassawy kissed his pregnant wife Tahani and their two children goodbye and left their home, just south of Khartoum in Sudan. They have not seen him since.
The current review of the Mental Health Act 2001 must place the rights and the wishes of the people who have experience of our mental health services at its core.
Ireland needs to urgently update its capacity law so it can ratify the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Support us and write to the Minister calling for the new capacity law to honour human rights standards.
Bahman Ahmadi Amou'i, 43, an editor at the business daily paper Sarmayeh, which was closed by the authorities on 2 November 2009, was sentenced to seven years and four months’ imprisonment and 32 lashes on 4 January 2010 by a Revolutionary Court in Tehran.
