1. Burundi: Thousands killed in ethnic violence; 2. Haiti: Fear for the safety of the inhabitants of Raboteau and Cite Soleil; 3. Three AI appeal cases released ...
Nasreddine Belhadefs, a 33-year-old Algerian asylum-seeker, was reportedly set upon by three men in civilian clothes in the town of Erfurt on the afternoon of 29 ...
AI received a number of allegations of police ill-treatment of foreigners in the period June-December 1993. This paper describes the case of Abdulkerim Balikci, ...
1. Austria: AI criticizes proposed changes to Austrian legislation on conscientious objection; 2. Germany: AI calls on Hamburg authorities to review complaints ...
AI is concerned that officers of a special police unit (E-Schicht) based at police station 16 in Hamburg have used unnecessary force when arresting detainees and ...
The following information is based on an interview, a written statement made by the victim and a medical certificate. On 28 March 1993, Bora A., a 28-year-old Turk ...
Abdulkerim Balikci, a 25-year-old Turk, was apprehended by police in the early hours of the morning of 3 August 1993 in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. He ...
Presented here are the five oral statements made by Amnesty International (AI) in August 1993 in Geneva. Under item 6 AI described the practice of political killings ...
Despite the increased importance of human rights on the political agenda of governments throughout the world, political killings and "disappearances" continue to ...
On the evening of 7 October 1992, Mimoun T. and a friend were stopped near Frankfurt am Main railway station by several uniformed police officers. According to ...