On the evening of 7 October 1992, Mimoun T. and a friend were stopped near Frankfurt am Main railway station by several uniformed police officers. According to his statement, Mimoun T., a 25-year-old Moroccan, asked the officers if they wanted to see his identity papers, but before he could show...

Between September 1992 and May 1993, Amnesty International received fresh allegations of ill-treatment by police of foreigners, or of police failing to intervene during racist attacks. The following cases are given: the alleged ill-treatment of residents of Granitz refugee hostel during a police...

Both the above-named, Bangladeshi nationals, were sentenced to death on 27 March 1991 for the murder of a Bangladeshi labourer in 1988. The sentence is believed to have been upheld by the Court of Criminal Appeal. The only hope of clemency now rests with the president. AI is concerned that the two...

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This report details AI’s concerns in Cambodia. Apparently politically motivated killings occured in the first half of 1992 but the number and scale of such armed attacks accelerated in November and December as opposition parties increased their activities and voters began to register for the May...

Cases of racist ill-treatment and torture by police in seven West European countries are described here. They are: the beating and ill-treatment of two Austrian citizens of Egyptian origin in March 1989; the beating and insulting of a young black man resident in Paris in September 1989; the...

This report describes AI’s human rights concerns in 39 countries in Europe (East and West) during the six months from May to October 1992. The issues described include: the use of the death penalty, imprisonment of conscientious objectors, allegations of ill-treatment and torture by security...

This document summarizes AI’s human rights in Burundi, one year after a counter-insurgency operation to repel attacks by armed insurgents resulted in the killing of around 1000 people by the security forces, dozens of “disappearances” and the reported beating and ill-treatment of some 500 people...

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