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This memorandum is based on the findings of and AI delegation which visited Nepal between 12 and 22 April 1990, during the establishment of the interim government. It followed a period of political unrest in which nationwide demands for political reform were accompanied by persistent reports of...

On 10 May 9 people, including Turabi Polat and Muhtullah Abbasiogullari were taken to Izmir State Security Court and charged with membership of Ekim, an illegal organization, under Article 141 of hte Turkish Penal Code. On 20 July 1989 the first hearing took place: 8 defendants were present, 6...

Between 1982 and 1989 several hundred people in Casamance region were arrested for political reasons connected with a campaign for greater autonomy; some were convicted on the basis of statements to the police which may have been made under duress. About 10 people remain in prison. The document...

This paper starts with a brief history of Amnesty International’s (AI) human rights concerns in Pakistan. It then describes the findings of a recent delegation (1989) which met Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s government. Individual cases are described and AI’s recommendations...

This report updates the AI document “Preliminary findings on killings of unarmed civilians, arbitrary arrests and summary executions since 3 June 1989” (ASA 17/60/89). Serious human rights violations continue to occur in China: AI has not recorded any significant improvement since...

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The detention without trial of suspected political opponents is cause for grave concern in Saudi Arabia. There appears to be a clear pattern of suspected political opponents being arrested without warrant and held for long periods without trial – sometimes for over two years. During the first...

Mustafa Sidar, Yasin Istek (Islek), Mahmut Zeyrek, Halit Gokalp, Emin Altan, Addullah Bayram, Ahmet Ibran, Ibrahim Bayik and Abdulvahap Sidar were arrested following the killing of five people near Balveren village in June 1989. All alleged they were tortured while held in incommunicado detention...

This paper describes the pattern of human rights violations since arrests of suspected government opponents began in 1986 (torture, unfair trials, deaths of prisoners), and the escalating scale of abuses since April 1989 when in both Mauritania and Senegal hundreds of people were deliberately...

AI has received reports that during June 1989 army counter-insurgency units entered at least two peasant communities in Lucanas province, Ayacucho department. In Pampamarca, the villagers were made to stay in the main square for two days. Soldiers looted farmers’ houses and at least 10...