This document outlines Amnesty International’s concerns in 17 countries in Western Europe. The concerns include: death penalty legislation; conscientious objection to military service; ill-treatment or torture of people held in police custody; detention of asylum-seekers; alleged forced...

This paper contains information on the imprisonment of health professionals in Sudan, some 19 of whom were still in detention at the time of writing. It describes the torture and ill-treatment of detainees and contains information on harsh prison conditions. A list of prisoners currently held in...

The above-named, aged 55 years and Professor of History at the University of Khartoum, has been in detention for a year, without charge or trial. He is being held in a prison in Port Sudan, in the north east of the country. Dr al-Gadal is known to be a diabetic and was earlier reported not...

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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 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...

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It was in 1964 that Amnesty International resolved at its Annual Assembly to embark on the publication of reports on the conditions in the prisons of all countries holding ‘Prisoners of Conscience’. As there are over seventy such countries and all of them by definition conceal what goes...