In a letter addressed to the Libyan authorities on 11 July, Amnesty International urged the authorities not to return involuntarily any Eritrean asylum-seekers to their country, where they would be at grave risk of torture and other serious human rights

The Venerable Thich Huyen Quang, Supreme Patriarch of the Unified Buddhist Church of Viet Nam (UBCV), and a prisoner of conscience for many years, passed away on 5 July 2008