Amnesty International is concerned about the continuing increase in death sentences and executions in China. This rise occurs in the context of successive anti-crime campaigns launched since 1989. Official figures indicate a growing drugs problem: most cases occur in the southern provinces of...

This document provides information about death sentences and executions in the USA in 1991: 14 executions took place and at the end of 1991 2,547 people were under death sentence. Issues such as alleged racial disparities in sentencing, and the sentencing of juveniles or mentally ill persons are...

Executions remain at a high level in Taiwan: in 1990 a record 78 people were executed, compared to 69 in 1989. The Government of Taiwan justifies the retention of the death penalty on the grounds that it is necessary to combat violent crime (which has increased alarmingly). Amnesty International...

This paper describes Amnesty International’s concern about the increased use of the death penalty in Taiwan: as of 23 September, 69 people had been executed. This already exceeds the high number recorded in 1989 (68) and is a major increase on previous years. The Judicial Yuan’s...

Use of the death penalty in Indonesia has increased sharply in recent years. Since the beginning of 1985, there have been 17 judicial executions. In the ten years before that there were four. Amnesty International believes that many of those executed in recent years had unfair trials. Many had been...

This document summarizes a number of Amnesty International’s key human rights concerns on China. Hundreds of thousands of people continue to be detained in violation of their fundamental human rights across the country, death sentences and executions continue to be imposed after unfair...

This document provides detailed information on the main concerns in the Baltic states during the period January 1995 – July 1996. Despite difficulties in obtaining up to date and accurate information on prisoners under sentence of death, it is known that several death sentences were passed in...

When he came to power in 1984, President Lansana Conte, promised to promote human rights. AI has found that human rights violations are continuing despite the fact that the 1990 Constitution prohibits torture. Arbitrary arrests, torture, deaths in detention, extrajudicial executions and death...

Since the imposition of a state of emergency in Algeria at the beginning of 1992, over 3,000 people have died as a result of political violence. Both the security forces and the armed Islamist oppositions groups are responsible. The numbers of those killed is on the increase. The Algerian...

Nine convicted murderers were executed in Seoul and Taegu prisons on 29 December 1992. They were the first executions since December 1991. Some 50 prisoners are under death sentence in South Korea, mostly convicted of rape, murder and robbery. AI is concerned about the increased number of death...