Husnia Dawud Mahmud ‘Abd al-Qader was arrested on 9 April 1992 and later served with a six-month administrative detention order on charges (which she denies) of being active within al-Fatah. She is a resident of the Balata Refugee Camp near Nablus and is active in Palestinian womens’ committees....

This report examines three areas of concern to AI, arising from its investigation over the past year into police brutality in both the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and the LA Sheriff’s Department (LASD). These are: police brutality, police shootings and the use of police dogs. Its findings...

This paper describes AI’s current concerns in Viet Nam: while welcoming the releases of political prisoners in late 1991 and early 1992, AI continues to be concerned about the detention of at least 60 people, including prisoners of conscience reportedly arrested during 1990 and 1991. Most of those...

Nayef ‘Ali Nayef Sweitat, a 35-year-old journalist from the West Bank, was arrested on 30 April 1992. He was issued with a six-month administrative detention order, on charges of being a senior activist in the al-Fatah faction of the PLO (which he denies). In early 1992 he was appointed as adviser...

This document details AI’s concerns with regard to the new Constitution which entered into force in Mongolia on 12 February 1992. AI submitted a memorandum on the draft Constitution to the standing legislature in August 1991 and an AI delegation attended a conference in Mongolia on the draft in...

AI is concerned about the apparent lack of progress in the investigation into the killing of 17 people in Los Uvos on 7 April 1991. The killing was allegedly carried out by a group of men in military uniform, believed to be members of a counter-insurgency patrol. They reportedly intercepted a bus...

While welcoming both the public recognition by Belarus of the importance of international human rights standards and recent efforts to bring its laws into line with them, AI continues to address the authorities in Belarus on a number of areas about which it is concerned. These include: the death...

This document consists of the text of a memorandum, in English and Spanish, sent by Amnesty International to the Government of El Salvador, to the Frente Farabundo Marti para la Liberacion Nacional (FMLN) and to the Comision de la Verdad (Commission of Truth). The memorandum includes a number of...

This document reports AI’s concern about the disappearance of 12 people from Junin Department in three separate incidents during February and March 1992. In one case, the “disappearances” followed the arrest of 10 peasants by a civil defence patrol with army support. The names of those detained and...

AI has learned that Ali Ardalan and seven others imprisoned at the same time were pardoned and released in early April 1992. The had been arrested in June 1990 for signing an open letter critical of the government. Ali Ardalan, aged 76, suffers from heart disease and another man, Nezameddin...

Amnesty International fears that brothers Abduvakhad and Kabylzhan Temirov may face imminent execution in the former Soviet republic of Kazakhstan.

This paper contains information about human rights developments in Morocco during and since AI’s Morocco Campaign, which took place from March to September 1991. It also summarizes activities undertaken by AI Sections and Groups during the campaign. While welcoming the releases of prisoners which...