The above four members of the Sindicato de Trabajadores del Organismo Judicial (STOJ), Workers Union of the Judiciary, were reportedly detained on 27 May 1993 during a demonstration in Guatemala City. The demonstration outside the Supreme Court was in protest against measures announced by President...

There is deep concern at the measures announced by President Jorge Serrano Elias on 25 May 1993. According to information received, key provisions of the constitution were suspended, Congress dissolved, judges from the Supreme Court and Constitutional Court dismissed, and the rule of law replaced...

1. China: Gross violations of human rights continue

Solomon (Solly) Bokaba, aged 27, President of the Students Representative Council (SRC), received death threats and was seriously assaulted by Bophuthatswana police on 7 May 1993, following a move by police on the University of Bophuthatswana (UNIBO) campus to prevent students holding a march....

A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman confirmed on 25 May 1993 that the two Lhasa residents, Gendun Rinchen and Lobsang Yonten were detained for political activities. The two men were reportedly involved in monitoring human rights violations in Tibet prior to the arrival in Lhasa of a delegation of...

Amilcar David Montejo Garcia, a member of the Consultative Council of the Coordination of Secondary School Students (CEEM), has been threatened and intimidated during May 1993. He had recently made public statements on television questioning government policy.

Despite recent government initiatives, which are recorded here, and an overall decrease in the numbers of “disappearances” and extrajudicial executions, there has been a marked increase in other abuses, such as death threats, harassment and other forms of intimidation. This report cites cases of...

There is concern that members of Nigeria’s security forces opened fire, in two incidents, on apparently peaceful demonstrators in the Ogoni area, 50 kilometres southeast of Port Harcourt in Rivers State, on 30 April and 4 May 1993. In the first incident at Biara, Karalolo Korgbara, a mother of five...

There have been reports of widespread arrests in towns and cities in northern Sudan in April and early May 1993. The majority of those whose names are known, are members of the Umma Party and Ansar sect, a traditional order in Sudanese Islam. Members of other political parties, including the...

Gustavo Armando Estrada Quezada is a student at the Commerce School of Guatemala, and a member of the CEEM, Coordination of Secondary School Students. His activities as a student leader have made him the victim of harassment since 1991. On 11 May Ingrid Lucrecia Urrutia Aldana was abducted by armed...

Amnesty International is concerned at the apparent extrajudicial execution on 30 April 1993 of Tomas Lares Cipriano, a member of Consejo de Comunidades Etnicas “Runujel Junam” (CERJ), Council of Ethnic Communities “We are all equal”, and of the Committee for Peasant Unity, Comite de Unidad...

This report documents Amnesty International’s current concerns, and cites the following cases as examples: The torture and ill-treatment of ethnic minorities: the case of the Roma community in Piata Rahova, Bucharest, in July 1992; the alleged torture and ill-treatment of detainees: the cases of...