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Africa Armed Conflict

Rwanda: Cases for appeals

This report consists of 15 appeal cases, illustrating AI’s main concerns in Rwanda. It includes cases from between April and July 1994, when the interim government was in power, and since the new government came to power in July. The cases are: Agathe Uwilingiyimana, first woman prime minister of...
Europe and Central Asia Armed Conflict

Turkey: Further information: Torture / fear of torture / arbitrary detention: Cemil Timur, Zeydin Timur, Sevket Timur, Hasan Aykut, Fehim Yalcin, Saadi Ozlu, Osman Ozlu, and an estimated 1,500 Kurdish villagers, including women and children

This action contains information about the conditions in which villagers are being kept in the containment area at Mezraa, Hakkari province and about events leading up to the establishment of the containment area. There is reportedly little food and fuel and the villagers are living in very...
Europe and Central Asia Detention

Turkey: torture / fear of torture / arbitrary detention: Cemil Timur, Zeydin Timur, Sevket Timur, Hasan Aykut, Fehim Yalcin, Saadi Ozlu, Osman Ozlu, and an estimated 1,500 Kurdish villagers, including women and children

A number of villages surrounding Evrek, near Beytussebab in Hakkari province, have been forcibly evacuated and many houses and crops burned by security forces because of villagers’ refusal to join the system of village guards. Villagers are being detained in their villages and there have been...