This bulletin summarizes Amnesty International’s main concerns in 36 countries in Europe during the first six months of 1996. The five Central Asian republics of Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are also included because of their membership of the CIS and the OSCE. The...

Cuban press reports indicate that the above has been sentenced to death after being found guilty of four rapes, robbery and other offences. He is reported to be unemployed and homless and to have been detained in “re-education centres” since the age of twelve.

Frane Gugo and Damir Bumber, Bosko Simic, Ivan Velic, Jurica Babic, Senka Bule, Andrija Simic, Slavka Maricic, Marija Jelencic, Natasa Maric, Ana Simic, Marija Jelic, Marija Goles, their families, and others: AI is concerned for the safety of scores of people living in apartments previously owned...

This report outlines Amnesty International’s deep concerns at the implementation of the human rights provisions of the 1995 peace agreement and the weaknesses of the human rights implementation mechanisms. It examines the basic undertakings of the parties and human rights implementation by the...

AI fears for the safety of some 250 members of the Guarani-Kaiowa indigenous community following a court ruling to evicit them from land they have occupied in Jarara, Juti municipality, Mato Grosso do Sul. Military police have frequently resorted to excessive force in carrying out eviction orders...

This is a revised version of a paper presented by Jim Welsh and Mary Rayner from Amnesty International at the meeting “Caring for Survivors of Torture: challenges for the medical and health professions”, which took place in Cape Town, South Africa, between 15-17 November 1995. It discusses the...

Amnesty International has recently received further reports of violence or intimidation used by members of the Croatian armed forces against civilians in connection with forced evictions from their apartments, or other housing issues. Military or civilian police have failed to provide appropriate...

Amnesty International is gravely concerned at reports that three Ukrainian women were the victims of serious ill-treatment, including rape, by members of the Croatian armed forces in the course of an eviction in Zagreb on 21 July 1995. There is further concern that law enforcement officers were...

AI has followed with concern a continuing pattern of human rights violations against wide sectors of the population in Mexico over the past two decades. Despite the adoption in recent years of administrative measures for the protection and observance of fundamental human rights gross human rights...

It has been reported that at least 13 people were seriously injured during a violent confrontation between squatter peasants (posseiros) belonging to the Movimento de Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), Movember for Landless Rural Workers, and military police on 8 November in Santa Isabel do...

Several investigations into police action to evict 600 squatter peasant families from the Santa Elina estate in Corumbiara, Rondonia, on 9 August 1995, have confirmed that police were responsible for gross human rights violations, including extrajudicial executions. Eleven squatter peasants remain...

A confrontation on 9 August between Rondonia state military police and a group of 500 squatter peasant (posseiro) families is reported to have left at least 11 peasants, including two children, and two policemen dead and over 100 people wounded. The full death toll is not known but reports indicate...