Peru: torture / fear for safety: Juan Arnaldo Salome Adauto, Victor Luis Salome Adauto, Rodolfo Alberto Salome Adauto
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This paper provides information on the death in custody on 16 January 1990 (the day of his arrest) of 16-year-old Mbuyiselo “Nixon” Phiri at Welverdiend police station in the western Transvaal. In a statement to the press about the circumstances of his death, the police claimed that Nixon Phiri had suffered an epileptic seizure during…
This circular reports the killing of 32-year-old Gustavo Ramirez Aguilar, from the community of El Charcon, La Libertad department, on 19 May 1991. He was shot dead in his home by three armed men in civilian clothing. Gustavo Rosa was a desplazado (displaced person). Events leading up to his death are described. Two months before…
This circular describes the events leading up to the exhumation of common graves in the sector of a Caracas cemetery known as La Peste (the Plague), where bodies of a number of people killed during civil disturbances in early 1989 were reportedly buried. It also updates information about the judicial investigations into the above-mentioned killings.…
This document describes reports of torture allegedly committed by police in Pakistan since 1989. Details about cases of death in police custody are also given, along with information about killings following alleged fake “encounters” with police. Among the cases documented are: Abdul Khaliq Mehar, died in detention; Atif Iqbal Bokhari and Rahila Tiwana, allegedly tortured…
Francisco Chacon Torres, a 15-year-old street youth, was allegedly shot dead by two private policement in Zone 9 of Guatemala City on 28 April 1991. He is said to have been walking in Zone 9 with another street child when shots were fired from close by: the boys reportedly started to run away but Francisco…
This reports updates infomation on the “disappearance” of 17-year-old student and member of the Peruvian Evangelical Church Manuel Meneses Sotacuro given in Urgent Action 181/91 (see AMR 46/24/91). Amnesty International has learned the name of the other person “disappeared” along with Manuel Meneses: he is 19-year-old Felix Inga Cuya, the director of the Escuela Dominical…
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Lior Ovshani, aged 18 years and reserve Sergeant-Major Amiel Vardy, a postgraduate student in the Theatre Studies Department of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, are both currently in prison for refusing to carry out military service. Both have reportedly given as their reason their opposition to current Israel Defence Force (IDF) practice in the Occupied…
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