Amnesty International fears for the safety of seven students, Armindo Martins, Afonso da Silva Guterres, Augusto da Cruz, Egas Moniz, Jacinto, Julia Aquino (f) and Amelia de Jesus (F), who are missing. Their “disappearance” follows two separate attacks by an armed pro-Indonesian militia...

Aurelio Leiva Barboza, Lauro Aguije Lizana, Jacobo Veliz Chuquin, Arturo Villaizan Contreras, Ines Marilu Avila Galvez (f), Teofilo Jose Huaman Navarro, Augusto Elguera Machari, Alfonso Rojas Colca, Dario Vargas Martinez and Juan Vargas Martinez – all peasants; seventeen other peasants, eight...

Sayyid ‘Abbas Sayyidd, Taha Mansour, Sa’id Taghour, Hisham Mohammad ‘Abdu, ‘Abd al-Hamid Mahmoud Qutb Khalil: In addition to the five individuals named above, at least 52 other individuals are reportedly being held in the State Security Investigations Department headquarters...

Sayyid ‘Abbas Sayyid, Taha Mansour, Sa’id Taghour, Hisham Mohammad ‘Abdu, ‘Abd al-Hamid Mahmoud Qutb Khalil, Ahmad Mohammad ‘Abd al-‘Adhim Higazi: Amnesty International has received alarming reports that Ahmad Mohammad ‘Abd al-‘Adhim Higazi died last...

Jorge Alirio Salazar, Jose Toro, Raul Zapata, Raul Toro, Celina Toro (f) teacher, Lucia Martinez (f) teacher and other inhabitants of Cristales village: AI is concerned for the safety of the inhabitants of Cristales village in the municipalitiy of San Roque, Antioquia department, following the...

‘Ali Ahmad Kadhem al-Muttaqawi, Jassim Hassan Mansour al-Khayat, Hussein Ahmad al-Mudhifa, Hussein Yousif Ibrahim, ‘Ali Ahmad Kazem ‘Abd ‘Ali, ‘Abbas ‘Ali Ahmad Habil and at least 28 others: The six men named above are among a group of at least 34 people who are...

New names: Jaime Laguna Collazo, peasant farmer leader and teacher, Edinson Donado, peasant farmer: Fears for the safety of peasant farmers forced off their lands on the Bellacruz ranch in the department of Cesar earlier this year have been greatly heightened by the killings of the above,...

Killed: Wilson Alejandro Loaiza, Octavio de Jesus Garcia (14), Cesar Dario Valle (16), Fabio Alonso Loaiza, Omar Moreno, Carlos Montoya, Ricardo Ochoa Puerta, Gabriel Jaramillo Palacio, Jesus Evelio Perez, Pedro Posada, Leon Dario Ospina, Carlos Zapata, Nicolas Alvarez, Carlos Arturo Agudelo;...

Killed: Wilson Alejandro Loaiza, Octavio de Jesus Garcia (14), Cesar Dario Valle (16), Fabio Alonso Loaiza, Omar Moreno, Carlos Montoya, Ricardo Ochoa Puerta, Gabriel Jaramillo Palacio, Jesus Evelio Perez, Pedro Posada, Leon Dario Ospina, Carlos Zapata, Nicolas Alvarez, Carlos Arturo Agudelo;...

1. Former Yugoslavia: ‘Disappeared ‘ must not be forgotten (includes photograph of woman lighting candle during vigil for the “disappeared” in Zagreb, Croatia). 2. Spain: Police officers found guilt of causing injury to two tourists (includes photograph of Mohamed Hegazy...

The Salvadorian Supreme Court has rejected petitions by human rights groups challenging the legality of the recent General Amnesty Law for the Consolidation of Peace, approved in March, which protects from prosecution human rights violators.

On 21 April 1993, a Salvadorian non-governmental human rights group presented a petition (recurso de inconstitucionalidad) to the Supreme Court challenging the Ley de Amnistia General para la Consolidacion de la Paz, (General Amnesty Law for the Consolidation of Peace) as unconstitutional.