This document describes AI’s concerns about a number of countries and issues relevant to the agenda of the forthcoming session of the UN Commission on Human Rights. Specific country situations addressed are: Afghanistan, Bougainville, Cuba, East Timor, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala,...

Medardo Brizuela Hernandez and Justa Victoria Orellana Cortez, both members of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front (FMLN), were shot dead in Canton San Lucas on 27 October 1993. Heleno Hernan Castro was leader of the FMLN faction, People’s Expression for Renewal, and was a member of the...

Presented here are the five oral statements made by Amnesty International (AI) in August 1993 in Geneva. Under item 6 AI described the practice of political killings and “disappearances” by governments against political opponents; under item 10 on the administration of justice and the human rights...

1. Amnesty International urges protection of women activists; 2. Turkey: Amnesty International urges Prime Minister to prevent killings at Nevruz (includes text of open letter from Amnesty International to Prime Minister Demirel); 3. El Salvador: Parliament defeats motion to extend death penalty.

Mirna Perla de Anaya, vice-president of the human rights organization CODEHUCA, was driving with her children and a US nun, when unidentified men fired on their car, injuring her son. The men were armed and some appeared to be in military uniform. They had indicated to Mirna Anaya to stop: at first...

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1. South Africa: Amnesty bill offering protection to human rights violators signed into law. 2. Amnesty International reports on torture and killings in ANC camps. 3. El Salvador: AI urges president to ensure safety of former member of armed forces. 4. Turkey: Foreign ministry rejects AI’s...

1. Haiti: AI condemns US return of Haitian asylum seekers; 2. El Salvador: army officers sentenced to 30 years for killing Jesuit priests; 3. Sri Lanka: Amnesty International urges that soldiers responsible for civilian killings are brought to justice; in addition: 4. Bhutan: AI welcomes release of...

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This circular updates information on trade unionists in Latin America contained in the paper AMR 01/01/91, issued in March 1991. The cases updated here are: Brazil: Expedito Ribeiro da Souza, Carlos Cabral Pereira, Roberto Neta da Silva and Orlanda Canuto, Jose and Paulo Canuto de Oliveira, Braz...