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Huang Guisheng was reportedly returned by the Laotian authorities to the People’s Republic of China on 5 June 1992, despite the fact that he had been recognized by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), in accordance with its mandate, to be a refugee in need of...

1. Cote d’Ivoire: Amnesty International adopts more than 70 prisoners of conscience. 2. Equatorial Guinea: Release of opposition party activists. 3. Germany: Amnesty International concerned at reports of torture of asylum seekers. 4. Kenya: Amnesty International representatives visit Kenya. 5....

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This report documents AI’s concerns about the arrests of hundreds of members of opposition parties in Sindh, especially of the PPP, since the dismissal of the government of Benazir Bhutto in August 1990. Many were held for short periods only but several hundred were believed to remain imprisoned at...

Amnesty International’s human rights concerns in the USA are summarized in this speech. AI is gravely concerned about the US policy of forcibly returning asylum-seekers fleeing Haiti in the aftermath of the coup of September 1991; in May 1992 the Government announced a new policy to return forcibly...

Huang Guisheng is a Chinese national who is currently detained in Vientiane, the capital of Laos, and is at imminent risk of being forcibly returned to China.

AI’s concerns in 36 European countries are documented in this paper. They include: the imprisonment of conscientious objectors to military service, alleged ill-treatment and torture in police custody, killings by security forces, human rights violations in areas of armed conflict, the death...

This report focuses on the alleged torture and ill-treatment of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo province; it documents individual cases which are illustrative of the allegations AI receives with increasing frequency. The victims of alleged police abuses include: Mikel Marku, an elderly lawyer who died...

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....

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 reports AI’s concern about the alleged killings, “disappearances”, torture and ill-treatment of members of the majority Hutu group by government troops and gendarmes, most of whom come from the minority Tutsi group. These violations appear to have intensified after attacks on...