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Amnesty International is deeply concerned about reports that the Bangladesh Government is planning to return over 30,000 Rohingya refugees to Myanmar where it believes many of them risk serious human rights violations. The Rohingyas are a Muslim minority from Arakan (Rakhine) State. They are...

Muzaffer Yorulmaz, a Kurdish asylum-seeker, was arrested on drugs charges in Athens in August 1990. He was allegedly beaten and kicked by four policemen at the time of arrest. He was taken back to his hotel room where he was allegedly further ill-treated while his room was searched. The police...

This report focuses on Amnesty Internationals concerns about human rights in Guinea under the government of President Lansana Conte. A failed coup attempt in 1985 resulted in widespread arrests and “disappearances” of those suspected of involvement: allegations of extrajudicial killings and torture...

Hasan Muhammad Ahmad ‘Abed Rabbo, aged 29, from the Deheisheh Refugee Camp near Bethlehem on the West Bank, was arrested on 17 October 1991 and issued with a five-month detention order dated 13 October 1991. His appeal was due to be heard on 25 November 1991. Hasan Rabbo has previously been...

‘Adel Salem Ghandur, from ‘Askar Refugee Camp on the West Bank, was arrested on 30 July 1991 and issued with an eight-month administrative detention order. At the appeal hearing held on 14 October 1991 the unclassified evidence alleged that he was active in the Popular Front for the Liberation of...

Muhammad Sha’ban al-‘Ayisah, aged 20, from the Deheisheh Refugee Camp, was arrested on 13 October 1991 and issued with a four-month administrative detention order. The reason given for his detention alleges that he participated in a Land Day demonstration in the refugee camp in April 1990 and that...

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This document describes Amnesty International’s concerns about a number of issues relevant to the agenda of the forthcoming Commission. These include human rights violations such as “disappearances”, arbitrary detention, summary or arbitrary executions, torture and religious intolerance, dealt with...

‘Abd al-Rahman Khader al-Ahmar, aged 24 years from the Deheisheh Refugee Camp in the West Bank, was arrested on 13 October 1991 and issued with a four-month administrative detention order. The reason for his detention given on the order alleges that he is an intifada activist in the area. This is...

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