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’s concerns in Iran are summarized in this submission. More than 750 people were reportedly executed, mostly, it appears, for criminal offences, especially drug dealing. At least 20 members of a Baluchi tribe in Zahedan are believed to have been executed in October 1991; others...

Athough access to prisoner information by independent investigators is severely restricted, Amnesty International has identified, as of early 1992, more than 1500 prisoners of conscience and possible prisoners of conscience in Myanmar. AI knows of almost 600 political arrests in the first seven...

Nguyen Dan Que, a medical doctor, was sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment and five years’ house arrest on 29 November 1991. Another man, Nguyen Van Thuan, was reportedly sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment at the same trial. Amnesty International (AI) believes that the trial may not have conformed...

This document contains excerpts from letters received by Amnesty International groups between June and December 1991. Some of the prisoners have been released, others remain in prison. Letters from the following people are included: Park In-bae, 38-year-old stage director released in October 1991;...

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...

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...

Hundreds of political prisoners, including many members of the armed forces, have been detained without trial over the past 10 years. Initially held outside any legal framework, those detained for long periods have been officially imprisoned on the basis of administrative detention orders issued...

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Amnesty International is seriously concerned about Muhammad al-Fasi, a businessman who was arrested in Jordan and extradited to Saudi Arabia where he is apparently detained at an undisclosed location in Riyadh. He is reported to have been tortured and forced to sign confessions and then read them...