AI fears for the safety of the director and staff of FUNDASIDA, a non-governmental AIDS organization in San Salvador, after receiving reports that they have been subjected to a series of death threats in late June. AI is calling for measures to be taken to guarantee their safety. AI notes that...

AI has received allegations over a number of years that detainees in Italy have been subjected to gratuitous and deliberate physical violence. There has been a noticeable increase in such complaints during the 1990s. A high proportion concern immigrants from outside Western Europe. This document...

As a result of the ongoing cycle of human rights violations aimed at health professionals in southeast Turkey, the provision of health services in the region has been eroded, putting the civilian population at risk and contributing to the government efforts forcibly to drive Kurdish villagers out...

Wilfredo Valencia Palacios, deputy director of the Oscar Romero AIDS project in El Salvador, received death threats in late October/early November. The threats were directly related to his work with the AIDS project, which conducts preventive education and health work with male and female...

AI is concerned for the safety of Wilfredo Valencia Palacios, Deputy Director of the Oscar Romero AIDS Project in El Salvador. He has reportedly received death threats in October and November 1994. On 29 October he was allegedly beaten up and threatened by two men and again, on 5 November, he was...

1. USA/Haiti: Haitian repatriation process questioned by AI delegation on return from Guantanamo; 2. USA/Cuba: Substantial number of Cubans held by the US authorities have fled risk of human rights violations in Cuba, states AI delegation returning from Guantanamo.

In the 10 years since returning to civilian rule, serious human rights violations have persisted in Brazil. Incidents such as the massacre of 111 prisoners in Sao Paulo in 1992 and the killing of seven children in the centre of Rio de Janeiro in 1993 have shocked public opinion at home and damaged...

1. Turkey: Foreign nationals subjected to cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment.

There is concern at the alleged ill-treatment and subsequent death of Antonio Morabito, a 32-year-old criminal suspect with terminal AIDS, while in the custody of Turin police on 18 December 1993. Numerous eye-witnesses to his arrest claim that he was severely beaten, and his family allege that he...

On 16 March 1993 Federal District Judge Sterling Johnson Jr issued an interim ruling ordering the US administration to improve conditions for asylum-seekers with AIDS at Guantanamo, or evacuate them to the mainland. Following this ruling over 30 asylum-seekers were allowed to go to the USA. In a...

This report examines the use of the death penalty under the Penal Code and the court martial system. It rejects the claims put forward by the government that it acts as a deterrent; that the public expect retribution; that it is a way of preventing escape. Nine prisoners were hanged at Luzira...

On 2 October 1992 a rebellion erupted in the Casa de Detencao prison in Sao Paulo. Shock troops of military police stormed the prison to quell the rebellion. Eleven hours later, 111 prisoners were dead. In this paper, accounts of the disturbance and massacre are given from the perspectives of the...