Amnesty International’s (AI) concerns in Sudan are described in this report. While welcoming a general amnesty in April 1991, AI remains concerned about more than 60 people still imprisoned. Arbitrary arrest and detention without charge or trial is said to be frequent: political prisoners are...

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This circular deals with the new forms of punishment recently introduced in Pakistan under the Qisas and Diyat Ordinance. This ordinance redefines several categories of bodily hurt and their punishment under the Pakistan Penal Code. These are: itlaf-i-udw (dismemberment, amputation, severance of a...

1. Bulgaria: Scheduled trial of former head of state. 2. Rwanda: Seven sentenced to death after unfair trial. 3. Update on Amnesty International’s concerns in countries involved in the Gulf conflict. 4. USA: Amnesty International appeals for stop to execution.

This research paper documents violations of human rights which have taken place in Iran since 1987. It reports widespread arbitrary arrest and detention of political opponents of the regime, unfair summary trials, torture and mass execution of political prisoners and of ordinary criminals. At least...

This paper reviews the evidence available to Amnesty International that medical personnel are involved in human rights violations such as torture, amputations, executions etc. It describes the nature of that involvement and cites some of those activities which, though legal under domestic law,...

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...

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Evidence collected by Amnesty International since the publication of its major report, Iran: Violations of Human Rights shows that serious human rights violations are continuing. New examples of torture, arbitrary arrest, execution and of judicial punishments which constitute torture are described....