Research
Algeria
Armed Groups
1. United States of America: Prisoner scheduled to be executed in Virginia on International Human Rights Day. 2. Cuba: Amnesty International calls on Cuban authorities to free prisoners of conscience. 3. Mexico: Human rights record criticized by UN Committee against Torture. 4. Iran: Amnesty...
December 3, 1992
Research
Burundi
Armed Conflict
1. Djibouti: Amnesty International criticizes convictions by security tribunal and appeals for release of prisoners of conscience (including Ali Aref); 2. Burundi: Amnesty International calls for an end to impunity for security forces; 3. Liberia: Risk of human rights violations as conflict...
November 25, 1992
Research
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Armed Conflict
Consists of an open letter from AI to the foreign ministers of states participating in, or members of: the European Community, the UN Commission on Human Rights, the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (Steering Committee on the Former Yugoslavia), the UN-EC Conference on the Former...
October 22, 1992
Research
Asylum
A statement by Amnesty International to the Hearing on refugees and asylum- seekers in Central and Eastern Europe held by the Committee on Migration, Refugees and Demography of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, Budapest, 1 July 1992.
June 30, 1992
Research
Algeria
Arms Trade
1. Resumption of executions in Pakistan. 2. Algeria: Islamists condemned to death. 3. Outcry over executions in the USA. 4. European Parliament condemns executions in USA and Iran. 5. Mexican president calls for clemency for Mexican citizen abroad. 6. Jamaica: moves to limit death penalty. 7. Mali:...
May 31, 1992
Research
Angola
EU
1. Angola: Amnesty International delegation visits Angola. 2. European Commission: AI concerned about proposed data protection legislation.
March 5, 1992
Research
East Asia
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
AI’s concerns in South Korea are summarized here. Around 50 prisoners convicted of national security offences under previous governments are still imprisoned. The pattern followed by many of these cases is illustrated by reference to the case of Park Dong-oon, accused in 1981 of spying for...
February 1, 1992
Research
Europe and Central Asia
Asylum
This paper records Amnesty International’s chief concerns about moves towards systematic cooperation among European states in matters of asylum policy and immigration. It concentrates on Western Europe, focusing on the arrangements currently being made by member states of the European...
November 1, 1990
