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Russia: Further information on fear of imminent execution: Valery ...
19 June 1995

AI believes that Valery Parshin has been executed. AI has received a telegram from his mother, stating that her son had been moved from death rown in Kresty Prison ...

Urgent Action       EUR 46/012/1995

Rwanda: Arming the perpetrators of the genocide
12 June 1995

This report describes the recent secret transfer of weapons and ammunition from several countries, including Albania and Bulgaria, to the exiled Rwandese armed ...

Report       AFR 02/014/1995

Russia: Fear of imminent execution: Valery Vasilyevich Parshin ...
1 May 1995

Valery Vasilyevich Parshin is facing imminent execution in Kresty prison in St Petersburg, after his appeal for clemency was turned down by President Yeltsin on ...

Urgent Action       EUR 46/011/1995

Russia (Chechen Republic): Further information on appeal for ...
11 April 1995

AI has received further reports that Russian troops have deliberately killed civilians, including two seven-year-old children, in the continuing conflict in the ...

Urgent Action       EUR 46/009/1995

Russian Federation: Armed conflict in the Chechen Republic: seeds ...
31 March 1995

This report on AI's concerns in the Chechen conflict contains information gathered from a variety of sources - journalists, alleged victims, other humanitarian ...

Report       EUR 46/010/1995

Russia (Chechen Republic): Further information on appeal for ...
24 March 1995

On 21 March 1995, President Yeltsin rejected the proposed amendments to the criminal code which would have introduced a possible death sentence for a new offence ...

Urgent Action       EUR 46/008/1995

Amnesty International News Service 58/95
17 March 1995

1. Amnesty International calls on Russian authorities to investigate human rights violations in the Chechen Republic.

Report       NWS 11/058/1995

Russia (Chechen Republic): Further information on appeal for ...
15 March 1995

On 10 March 1995, it was reported that the State Duma had overridden a resolution by the Federation Council which had rejected the State Duma vote to introduce ...

Urgent Action       EUR 46/007/1995

Russia (Chechen Republic): Further information on appeal for the ...
13 March 1995

AI has received further reports that people seeking to flee the continuing conflict in the self-proclaimed Chechen Republic-Ichkeriya have been shot dead by Russian ...

Urgent Action       EUR 46/006/1995

Amnesty International News Service 26/95
2 February 1995

1. Amnesty International delegation visits Sri Lanka. 2. India: Amnesty International falsely accused of inaccuracy and cover-up. 3. Russia: Amnesty International ...

Report       NWS 11/026/1995