1. South Africa: Renewed violence brings despair to the families of KwaZulu-Natal; 2. United Kingdom: Deportees suffer ill-treatment by security officers; 3. Iran ...
Naser Palushi is a 22-year-old ethnic Albanian from Kosovo province, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, who has been accepted as a law student at the University of ...
AI has received a number of allegations during the past year of the ill-treatment of foreigners, some of them asylum seekers, by police or prison officers. Some ...
1. Austria: Allegations of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment by police and prison-officers. 2. El Salvador: Amnesty International visit. 3. Honduras: Amnesty ...
1. Austria: AI criticizes proposed changes to Austrian legislation on conscientious objection; 2. Germany: AI calls on Hamburg authorities to review complaints ...
1. Hong Kong and the Gambia abolish death penalty for all crimes. 2. Italy: Moves towards total abolition. 3. USA: Recent developments. 4. Uganda: Nine prisoners ...
Cases of racist ill-treatment and torture by police in seven West European countries are described here. They are: the beating and ill-treatment of two Austrian ...
This document is a survey of progress towards complete abolition of the death penalty in Europe. It gives a chronology of moves towards abolition from 1947 to 1991 ...
This report updates "Austria: Torture and ill-treatment" (EUR 13/01/89). Since the publication of that report the Austrian Government has announced a number of ...
1. Morocco: Released prisoner of conscience talks to AI. 2. Released hostage talks about power of letters. 3. Bhutan: AI delegates visit Nepal to interview refugees ...