This document updates “Cambodia: Recent human rights developments” (ASA 23/07/90). Since then, AI has had news of only one release. Some 192 other political prisoners, arrested between 1979 and 1990, have been identified; they may still be held without charge or trial. The names of seven additional...

Ali Laaridh, the spokesperson of the unofficial Islamic movement al-Nahda and Ziad Doulatli, a prominent al-Nahda member, were arrested on 23 December 1990 and held in garde-a-vue detention for 24 days (the legal maximum in Tunisia is 10 days). They were not brought before an examining magistrate...

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Amnesty International (AI) continues to be concerned about the types of human rights violations described below. People continue to be detained for non-violently exercising their right to freedom of expression and association. They include Mehmet Fehim Isik and Ali Ozler. Others have been detained...

AI’s concerns about abuses of human rights in Iran are stated here. They include mass executions after unfair trials, arbitrary arrests, detention of prisoners of conscience and torture. Specific instances cited include the detention of more than 20 people, some elderly or in poor health, in June...

Hamadi Jebali, editor of the weekly al-Fair (Dawn) was sentenced to one year in prison by a military court in Tunis on 31 January 1991. His magazine had published an article calling for the abolition of military courts in Tunisia. Mohammed Nouri, the writer of the article, was sentenced to six...

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This document describes the detention of advocates of a multi-party system in Kenya. Three cases of people held under indefinite administrative orders are described, as well as four other cases of government critics in jail awaiting trial for sedition. Short-term arrests, interrogations and...

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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 admissions...

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