Amnesty International has learned that Juan Salvador RAMOS HERNANDEZ, who was detained on 19 January 1984 by members of the Salvadorian security forces is still in detention, together with eight people whose names were already known to Amnesty International.

Amnesty international has received reports that Carlos Ernesto Vásquez Zomete was released from detention on 18 April 1984.

Juvêncio Mazzarollo, a journalist who was serving a four year prison sentence under Articles 42 and 33 of the (unamended) Law of National Security, was released from detention in Curitiba on 6 April 1984.

Amnesty International has received report that Carlos Ernesto Vásquez Zomete has been subjected to torture while held in detention at the National Police (Policía Nacional) headquarters in San Salvador, where it is believed he is still being held. His detention has been acknowledged by the...

Carlos Ernesto Vásquez Zomete was reportedly abducted in San Salvador on 27 March 1984. He had left home to go to work at 7.20 a.m. He arrived at work and left at 9.00 a.m. to attend a press conference and is believed to have been abducted by unknown men while on his way to the […]

Amnesty International is concerned about Juvêncio Mazzarollo, a prisoner of conscience adopted by Amnesty International, who began a hunger-strike on 28 March 1984 in protest against his continued detention.

Amnesty International has so far not received details of where the eight trade unionists still held are being detained. Detainees are usually held for a period of 15 days in incommunicado detention at a police station or military barracks. They are then brought before a military judge and either...

Amnesty International has received reports that 14 people are being held in detention following a raid by the National Police on a trade union meeting in San Salvador on 19 January 1984.

On 2 December 1983 the Brazilian Congress approved a series of amendments to Law 6.620/78, the Lei de Segurança Nacional (Law of National Security). These amendments abolish certain offences and reduce the penalties for others.

During the past two months, lecturers from the National University have been killed and several lecturers and students have “disappeared”, allegedly at the hands of right-wing death squads. Amnesty International is deeply concerned at reports of the renewed activity of the so-called death squads,...

Amnesty International has received reports that Juvêncio Mazzarollo has now ended his hunger-strike. He is reported to have lost six kilograms. Amnesty International considers Juvêncio Mazzarollo, a journalist, to be a prisoner of conscience, imprisoned for the exercise of his right to freedom of...

Amnesty International is concerned that Juvêncio Mazzarollo, a prisoner of conscience, has recently begun a hunger-strike in protest against the increase of his prison sentence from two years to four years.