The case of the torture of Manirul Murshed, a Bangladeshi asylum-seeker forcibly returned from Sweden on 10 October 1990, is described in this report. On arrival at Dhaka Airport, he was arrested by airport police and during the 13 hours of his detention he was allegedly repeatedly beaten, whipped...

Kenya: Letter from the Reverend Lawford Imunde (freed); China: Liu Qing, update; Guatemala: Investigation into death of Nahaman Carmona Lopez; Turkey: Erhan Tuskan released; Israel: ‘Abd al-Ra’uf Ghabin; Ethiopia: Mulugetta Mosissa released; Sudan: Dr Ushari Ahmed Mahmoud released; Malawi: Orton...

This paper summarizes Amnesty International’s concerns about the arrest, detention and, in some cases, forcible return to Myanmar of Burmese asylum- seekers in Thailand. Several instances of ill-treatment of detained Burmese refugees are quoted, including one incident which resulted in the death of...

Amnesty International (AI) is deeply concerned about the safety of hundreds of thousands of Kurds, Arab Shi’a Muslims and others in Iraq whom it fears may be at serious risk of grave human rights violations. In April/May 1991 AI delegates interviewed over 500 refugees in Turkey, Iran and northern...

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This document summarizes human rights violations, brutal in the extreme, allegedly perpetrated in the aftermath of the mass uprising which began on 1 March 1991 in several cities of southern Iraq and spread to the Kurdish regions of the north. It details widespread arrests, torture and...

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This document describes the massive human rights violations which took place in Ethiopia during the rule of ex-President Mengistu Haile Mariam. Opponents of the Mengistu regime, often members of ethnic groups e.g. Tigrayans, Eritreans or Oromos were subjected to arbitrary arrest and detention,...

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Amnesty International’s (AI) concerns in some 20 European countries from November 1990 through April 1991 are described in this report. They include alleged ill-treatment, sometimes amounting to torture, of detainees by police or prison staff, imprisonment of conscientious objectors to military...