1. Brazil: Human rights placed in the spotlight; 2. United States of America (Georgia): Olympic host state is fifth highest for executions; 3. Burundi: Death toll rises as armed attacks increase on all sides; 4. Italy: From police custody to hospital; 5. Focus: Egypt: The sacrifice of human rights; 6. Worldwide appeals: Syria: “Disappearance” of…
On 24 June 1996, the Court of Cassation upheld the death sentence passed on a captain in the Kuwaiti police force convicted of drowning a Syrian woman with whom he had a relationship. The death sentence now passes to the Amir of Kuwait for ratification.
1. France: Police officer jailed for death in custody; 2. Nigeria: More human rights activists detained for criticizing the military government; 3. Cuba: Basic freedoms curtailed as harassment increases; 4. News in brief; 5. Focus: No way home without human rights: the refugee crisis in the Great Lakes region of Africa; 6. Worldwide appeals in…
Bassam Muhammed Shaker, Iraqi Shia’, asylum-seeker, Hussain Kamil, Syrian asylum-seeker: Bassam Muhammed Shaker, an Iraqi asylum-seeker detained in Romania, was released on 12 March 1996 in Otopeni Airport, to enable him to present his application for refugee status.
Bassam Muhammed Shaker, Iraqi Shia’asylum-seeker, Hussain Kamil, Syrian asylum-seeker: Bassam Muhammed Shaker faces imminent and forcible return to Iraq where he would be at serious risk of detention, “disappearance”, torture or execution. This prospect has been heightened by the forcible return to Syria of asylum-seeker Hussain Kamil.
1. United States of America: Chain-gangs reintroduced in state prisons; 2. United Arab Emirates: Call for clemency on floggings; 3. Turkey: Lawyer Eren Keskin speaks out as legal changes prompt retrials; 4. News in Brief (Ukraine and Syria); 5. Equatorial Guinea: Hopes for free and fair elections dashed; 6. Pakistan: Bill seeks to ban flogging…
1. Kenya: Lives devastated by torture (photograph – AI medical delegate examining victim of torture); 2. North Korea: Government denies prisoners were detained; 3. Federal Republic of Yugoslavia: Ethnic Albanian police employees allege torture in detention (photograph – Avdi Mehmedoviqi, Sheremet Ahmeti and Blerim Olloni); 4. Focus: Afghanistan: A country in ruins; 5. Worldwide appeals:…
This circular contains 11 cases, describing a range of violations suffered by those who work for human rights around the world. The cases are: China: Bao Ge, a prisoner of conscience; Colombia: Meta Civic Committee for Human Rights, threatened and intimidated; Cuba: Sebastian Arocs Bergnes and other members of the Cuban Committee for Human Rights,…
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 showing injuries sustained after arrest). 3. Guinea: Prisoners suffer degrading conditions. 4. News in brief…
1. United Kingdom: Police restraints cause deaths (includes photograph of Joy Gardner). 2. France: Police guilty of illegal violence (includes photograph of Lucien Djossouvi). 3. India: Evidence suggests hundreds of bodies cremated by police. 4. Israel and the Occupied Territories / PAA: Torture victim shaken to death. 5. Focus: The quest for justice: time for…
1. Germany: Police brutality on the increase. 2. India: Concern grows over deaths in custody. 3. Sierra Leone: Schoolchildren abducted by rebel forces. 4. Focus: Syria: the forgotten victims. 5. Worldwide appeals: Cyprus: conscientious objector Iosif Kosta Kourides sentenced; Colombia: harassment and killing of members of the Civic Human Rights Committee in Meta; Indonesia: Jose…
1. Syria: Radical measures needed to improve appalling human rights record. 2. Brazil: Amnesty International’s Secretary General raises concern on safety of key witness to Candelaria massacre.