Luís Vaz Martins, lawyer and president of the Human Rights League of Guinea-Bissau has received threats from an armed individual after publicly condemning the arrest and torture of prominent lawyer Pedro Infanda and the beating of former Prime Minister and current Court President Francisco José...

Four jounalists, Allen Yéro Embalo, Alberto Dabo, Eva Maria Auzenda Biague and Fernando Jorge Perreira, have gone into hiding after threats from the military after they reported on the way Guinea-Bissau is being used as a transit point by drug-smugglers. If detained by the military, they would be...

Several named miliary officers were arrested in early November 2002. They are being held in incommunicado detention without charge, at Mansoa Army barracks north of the capital Bissau and at Cumeré Army barracks south of the capital. They have reportedly been tortured and at least one, Second...

João Vaz Mané was released from prison in the capital Bissau on the morning of 19 February. João Vaz Mané confirmed that he had not been ill-treated in detention and thanked Amnesty International for its work on his behalf.

João Vaz Mané, vice-president of the Liga Guineense dos Direitos Humanos (LGDH), Guinea-Bissau Human Rights League, was arrested at about 3pm on 29 January at his home in the country’s capital, Bissau. He was arrested without a warrant, and is being detained incommunicado, without charge. Amnesty...

At least 55 detainees, including General Bouta Nan Batcha; Nhande Seidi; Braima Djassi; Laminé Turé; Braima Sanhá; General Augusto da Costa de Sa; General Armando Soares da Gama; Mário Gomes; Colonel Ansumba Mané; Mamadú Seidi; Aliu Bangura; Augusto Fernandes, and Domingos Djalo, who are being held...

Senior military officers have apparently threatened to have human rights activists beaten for publicising abuses by soldiers. League members have been threatened before for reporting human rights violations by soldiers.

Albert Mukesha Batwaro, Rwandese, and other African nationals, particularly: Ahire Uwaifo Naruna (25), Nigerian, David Adekoro Damolekun (24), Nigerian, Cesaltina (f) (other names not known); new names: Femi Singleton (30), Nigerian, Soulemanou Zakari (22) Cameroonian: Most of the detainees have...

Albert Mukesha Batwaro, Rwandese, and other African nationals, particularly: Ahire Uwaifo Naruna (25), Nigerian, David Adekoro Damolekun (24), Nigerian, Cesaltina (f) (other names not known): On 23 September 1996 Ahire Uwaifo Naruna, one of the 46 African nationals who have been held in...

Albert Mukesha Batwaro, Rwandese, and from Guinea-Conakry: Souleymane Diallo, Sulaymane Souare, Alpha Makmadou Barry, Abubacar Sall, and other African nationals: On 23 August 1996 Albert Mukesha Batwaro and the 45 other people deported to Guinea-Bissau from Spain, ended their hunger-strike. Amnesty...

Albert Mukesha Batwaro, Rwandese; from Guinea-Conakry: Souleymane Diallo, Sulaymane Soure, Alpha Mamadou Barry, Abubacar Sall; and other African nationals: On 20 August 1996, 46 men of various African nationalities, detained in Guinea-Bissau after being deported from Spain in mid-June, resumed...

Albert Mukesha Batwaro, Rwandese, aged 20, David Damozekun Adekoro, Nigerian, aged 26 and other African nationals: On 15 August, four more of the refugees on hunger-strike in the Second Squadron prison in Bissau were taken to hospital. One had attempted to commit suicide, the others had become ill...