This document looks at recent developments affecting the use of the death penalty in the USSR, including the initiatives taken by individual republics with respect to death penalty legislation. It reports on the appeals and clemency procedures open to a person who has been sentenced to death and...
This report documents mass violations of human rights in Peru which have taken place since the new government took office in July 1990. These abuses occur in the context of an increasingly violent campaign by armed opposition groups, in particular the “Sendero Luminoso” (Shining Path). The...
Amnesty International’s (AI) concern about the high number of “disappearances” which occur in Peru are described in this report. More cases of “disappearance” in Peru have been reported to the United Working Group on Enforced or Involuntar Disappearances than from anywhere else. AI has received...
This paper describes Amnesty International’s concern about reports of repressive measures taken by the security forces against the villagers of Payamli (Deravit) near Siirt in southeast Turkey. The authorities apparently suspect the villagers of sympathizing with the armed opposition group the...
Jose Maria Cabascango, 28-year-old human rights secretary of the Confederacion de Nacionalidades Indigenas del Ecuador (CONAIE), Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador, was detained with other leaders of Indian communities on 11 June 1991 in Cajas, Imbabura provice. The detained...
Amnesty International’s (AI) concerns about the operations of the Israeli military courts in the Occupied Territories in recent years are documented in this report: more than 30,000 Palestinians have been tried by these courts since the beginning of the intifada in 1987. Related concerns include...
This document summarizes human rights violations, brutal in the extreme, allegedly perpetrated in the aftermath of the mass uprising which began on 1 March 1991 in several cities of southern Iraq and spread to the Kurdish regions of the north. It details widespread arrests, torture and...
Amnesty International is concerned about the arrest of the four people named below. All of them are thought to be probable prisoners of conscience, detained for peacefully expressing their anti-government views. The four are: Miguel Angel Sordo Qunitanilla, believed still to be held at the...
This paper describes Amnesty International’s (AI) concerns in several areas in the context of the forthcoming 46th regular session of the United Nations General Assembly. These include: torture, summary or arbitrary executions, enforced or involuntary disappearances, the status of the International...