This report gives information on the use of the death penalty in the above- named Baltic countries. Since gaining their independence in the period 1988-91, all have retained the death penalty, although for a reduced number of crimes. The information is based on the findings of an AI visit to the...

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have all retained the death penalty in their respective criminal codes, although the number of crimes punishable by death has been reduced in all three. In this report AI appeals to the authorities of the three countries to abolish the death penalty and to commute all...

1. The Baltic States: Amnesty International visits Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. 2. Brazil: Amnesty International sends fact-finding delegation to Sao Paulo to investigate prison massacre. 3. Myanmar: AI concerned that at least 1600 political prisoners remained detained without trial or after...

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1. Switzerland: Total abolition of the death penalty approved by Parliament. 2. European Parliament calls for action against death penalty. 3. Georgia: Restoration of 1921 Constitution means abolition of death penalty. 4. Lithuania: Scope of death penalty reduced. 5. Canada: Guarantee secured in...

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...

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On 18 February the procuracy of the Lithuanian republic released further information on a man who died of a heart attack during the events of 13 January 1991 in Vilnius, in which reportedly peaceful unarmed demonstrators were killed by Soviet troops. It is now known that Alvidas Matulka suffered a...

On 14 January 1991 Lithuanian authorities released information on 14 people, including one Soviet soldier, said to have died the day before when Soviet troops moved against demonstrators outside the television centre in the republican capital of Vilnius. One is said to have suffered a heart attack,...

Amnesty International is concerned at reports that up to 13 peaceful, unarmed demonstrators were killed by Soviet troops in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius on 13 January 1990.