Amnesty International has learned of the reported detention and subsequent “disappearance” of the above-mentioned people.

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When the National Resistance Movement (NRM) took power in January 1986 it declared its commitment to restoring respect for human rights and the rules of law in Uganda. Three years on, this Amnesty International report reviews the NRM government’s human rights record. It describes the appalling...

This report documents the persistent pattern of human rights abuse in Romania in the 1980s, a period in which the authorities have imprisoned their critics and jailed hundreds of other men and women for wanting to exercise their rights to leave the country. Some prisoners of conscience have been...

Fela Anikulapo Kuti, a musician well-known in Nigeria for his political opinions, particularly as expressed in his songs, was detained at Murtala Muhammed international airport in Lagos on 4 September 1984. On 8 November, the Port Harcourt Zone of the Exchange Control (Anti-Sabotage) Tribunal...

Prisoner of conscience, Juvêncio Mazzarollo, a journalist, was released from detention in Curitiba on 6 April 1984 after serving eighteen months of a four year prison sentence under Articles 42 and 33 of the (unamended) Law of National Security. He had staged a hunger-strike in protest against his...

Amnesty International is concerned about Juvêncio Mazzarollo, a prisoner of conscience adopted by Amnesty International, who began a hunger-strike on 28 March 1984 in protest against his continued detention.

On 2 December 1983 the Brazilian Congress approved a series of amendments to Law 6.620/78, the Lei de Segurança Nacional (Law of National Security). These amendments abolish certain offences and reduce the penalties for others.

Amnesty International has received reports that Juvêncio Mazzarollo has now ended his hunger-strike. He is reported to have lost six kilograms. Amnesty International considers Juvêncio Mazzarollo, a journalist, to be a prisoner of conscience, imprisoned for the exercise of his right to freedom of...

Amnesty International is concerned that Juvêncio Mazzarollo, a prisoner of conscience, has recently begun a hunger-strike in protest against the increase of his prison sentence from two years to four years.