hunger strike

Prisons remain overcrowded and 8,000 prisoners have not been given trials as of March 2010.

Palestinian, and they have been the targets of threats, kidnapping, and murder by Shi'a militias

Women are forced to veil and are harrassed if found outside their homes without male relatives. Militias and armed forces use rape as a means of intimidation especially against religious minorities.

Religious minorities in Iraq have been facing persecution since 2003 at the hands of militias and other armed forces

On September 16, 2007, at least 17 Iraqis were killed near Nisour Square, Baghdad, after personnel of Blackwater reportedly shot several rounds from their armored vehicles. Criminal charges against five Blackwater guards implicated in the shooting were dropped by a US judge in 200

July 12, 2007 helicopter attacks portrayed in a leaked classified US military video shows a dozen people, including a journalist and his driver, being killed

Security forces used unwarranted lethal force and tortured and abused prisoners and detainees

Most killings resulted from police brutality.

On March 24, police officers in Tanta killed Eid Ahmed Ibrahim by driving a police van over the victim, who was trying to prevent the arrest of his brother

On October 9, a police officer in the town of Samalut allegedly killed a pregnant woman, Mervat Abdel Salam Abdel Fattah, while searching for her brother-in-law on suspicion of theft. The case remained pending at year's end

Security forces used lethal force against protesters in other instances. On April 6 and 7, security forces killed four protesters during violent clashes between police and protestors in Mahalla el Kubra, a textile town in the Nile Delta.

employ torture to extract information or force confessions

punishments generally did not conform to the seriousness of the offenses

On April 30, police officer Ahmed Antar Ibrahim assaulted Al Nadim Center director and anti-torture activist

On September 8, police quashed a prison riot and a jailbreak attempt in Assiut with tear gas and live fire, killing one prisoner and wounding 25 others. Prisoners claimed guards had tortured a prisoner to death prior to the riot. Authorities commenced an investigation into the riot but had not taken further action at year's end.

privacy rights, and restricts freedom of speech, press, assembly, and association.

The Government restricts freedom of religion

In July 2000, 10 Iranian Jews were tried and convicted on charges of having illegal contact with Israel, and sentenced to between 2 and 13 years in prison.

iolence against women occurs, and women face legal and societal discrimination.

The Government restricts the work of human rights groups and continues to deny entry to the UNSR

Child labor persists

reports of trafficking in persons

security forces killing persons during the October "soccer riots.

Human rights groups reported that security forces killed at least 20 persons while violently suppressing demonstrations

excessive use of force, arbitrary arrests, ill-treatment, torture and the use of administrative detention to jail individuals without charge or trial.

demolition of their homes; punitive arrests, unfair trials, ill-treatment and torture of detainees and the use of lethal force to subdue nonviolent demonstrations

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police have been caught on camera using violence against children and young people in mainly Kurdish-populated southeast Turkey.

The autopsy confirmed that the boy died from a gunshot wound, and the gendarmerie later confirmed that the fatal bullet was fired from a gendarme's gun

The Human Rights Foundation of Turkey, a national nongovernmental organization, has documented 48 incidents of fatal shootings by police and gendarmerie during 2009 alone, concluding in each case that the circumstances warrant a full investigation to determine whether the shootings constituted summary killings.

Establish an effective independent police complaints authority to investigate police misconduct promptly, capable of leading to the prosecution of offenders; Clarify laws to state explicitly that the use of lethal force is a means of last resort and used only where necessary to protect life; Strictly monitor the use of pepper gas and tear gas and initiate prompt, independent, and thorough inquiries into their reported misuse and excessive or arbitrary use; Investigate commanding officers in cases of serious human rights violations by the police, and; Impose disciplinary sanctions on law enforcement officers who commit abuses.