Amnesty International has received reports of the detention on 13 September 1988 of the people named in this Action in the context of demonstrations advocating an increase in the budget for the UES. It is not known if their detentions have been acknowledged nor where they are being held.

Amnesty International is concerned at the reported abduction and subsequent “disappearance” of trade unionist Eliseo Cordova Aguilar.

Evidence collected by Amnesty International since the publication of its major report, Iran: Violations of Human Rights shows that serious human rights violations are continuing. New examples of torture, arbitrary arrest, execution and of judicial punishments which constitute torture are described....

Thousands of ethnic minority people have fled Burma to escape the indiscriminate brutality of the army’s counter-insurgency operations. Most of the refugees are from the Karen State, a mountainous area bordering on Thailand. Others come from the Mon and Kachin States and other parts of Burma. Their...

Since mid-1987 political killings carried out by government and government backed forces in violation of the law have become the most serious human rights problem in the Philippines. Most of the victims have been suspected supporters of the communist insurgency, many of them members of legal...

Political imprisonment is a persistent feature of Nepali life. All political party activity is banned. There are usually at least 100 political prisoners in Nepal’s jails, and in recent periods of widespread protest such as the first half of 1985, hundreds of non-violent opponents of the government...

Amnesty International is concerned about reports of the “disappearance” of trade unionist Salvador Ubau, who was abducted on 1 September 1987 at 8.00 am in San Salvador. Five heavily armed men forced him into a white pick-up, licence plate number 87659. The authorities deny holding him and his...

Thousands of executions since 1979, victims include juveniles / political imprisonment / arbitrary arrests / unfair trials in political cases / torture and ill-treatment of prisoners / amputations and floggings imposed by the courts

Amnesty International said today it had called on the Syrian Government to investigate reports of revenge massacres of unarmed civilians – including women and children – by Syrian troops and militias supported by them in two Lebanese cities in the past three months.

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Amnesty International is concerned at renewed attacks directed against human rights workers, relief and church workers in El Salvador.

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