This document is a survey of progress towards complete abolition of the death penalty in Europe. It gives a chronology of moves towards abolition from 1947 to 1991 and provides information on death penalty related issues in 43 European countries. The appendices include the text of the Second...

Amnesty International’s (AI) concerns in some 20 European countries from November 1990 through April 1991 are described in this report. They include alleged ill-treatment, sometimes amounting to torture, of detainees by police or prison staff, imprisonment of conscientious objectors to military...

1. 1990 a record-breaking year for abolition. 2. Abolition in Hungary – Constitutional Court ruling. 3. Japan: Forum discusses abolition. 4. Messages to the Anti-Death Penalty Forum 90: Abolish the death penalty!. 5. Expansion of the death penalty: Pakistan, Maldives. 6. The death penalty in...

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This report summarizes Amnesty International’s concerns regarding conscientious objection in 23 countries as of January 1991 (in a few cases as of February 1991). It updates the report “Conscientious objection to military service”, May 1988 (POL 31/01/88). There are two annexes: Annex 1 gives...