Two issues of serious concern to Amnesty International are the alleged use of torture or ill-treatment during interrogation and the use of administrative detention without charge or trial. One case of alleged ill- treatment in detention is described (‘Abd al-Ra’uf Ghabin) and a number of official...

Amnesty International (AI) is concerned by reports that at least several hundred people may be imprisoned for political reasons in Cuba. Up to three hundred may be prisoners of conscience. They include members of unofficial political and human rights groups, such as Criterio Alternativo or the...

Scores of people were extrajudicially killed and several hundred “disappeared” in Sri Lanka during 1991. Torture of detainees appeared to be used systematically. Thousands were detained without trial under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and other legislation. In the northeast, the background to...

Serious violations of human rights continued in Iran during 1991, with arbitrary arrests, unfair trials and torture. More that 750 people were executed. Amnesty International’s concerns in Iran include the imprisonment of prisoners of conscience, including a group of men held since June 1990...

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Amnesty International has received persistent reports of human rights violations in 1991 in the northern Ugandan districts of Gulu, Kitgum, Lira and Apac, committed in particular by the Ugandan Army (NRA). These violations occur in the context of operations against rebel opposition forces such as...

This report updates “Bangladesh: Human rights in the Chittagong Hill Tracts 1989-1990 (ASA 13/04/91). It covers violations reported both under the interim government and that of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, e.g. unacknowledged detention, detention without trial, torture and death of tribal...

This document continues the exchange of views with the Colombian authorities which was presented in papers earlier in 1991 (AMR 23/20/91 and AMR 23/37/91). It consists of a letter from the Colombian Minister of the Interior, dated 28 August 1991, which criticizes Amnesty International for giving a...