This bulletin summarizes Amnesty International (AI)’s main concerns in 37 countries in Europe during the last six months of 1996. The five Central Asian republics of Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan are also included because of their membership of the CIS and the OSCE....

This document is a compilation of extracts from action materials produced by Amnesty International since September 1991 which particularly concern the human rights of homosexuals. It covers 24 countries and the violations reported range from repressive legislation which criminalizes homosexual acts...

The Government of the Republic of Ireland has just published the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences) Bill 1993, which will repeal the existing law forbidding homosexual acts and introduce provisions prohibiting such acts with persons under 17 years. Current legislation is in breach of the European...

This document is a survey of progress towards complete abolition of the death penalty in Europe. It gives a chronology of moves towards abolition from 1947 to 1991 and provides information on death penalty related issues in 43 European countries. The appendices include the text of the Second...

Amnesty International’s concerns in 23 European countries are summarized and updated in this report. They cover issues such as conscientious objection to military service, ill-treatment, sometimes amounting to torture, in police custody, conditions in which prisoners are held and the death penalty....

1. Republic of Ireland: AI calls again for independent inquiry into Sallins train robbery cases. 2. Morocco: Release of Tazmamert detainees. 3. Commonwealth: heads of government meeting strengthens commitment to human rights. 4. Egypt: Peace conference protesters arrested. 5. Hong Kong: AI’s...

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...

1. 1990 a record-breaking year for abolition. 2. Abolition in Hungary – Constitutional Court ruling. 3. Japan: Forum discusses abolition. 4. Messages to the Anti-Death Penalty Forum 90: Abolish the death penalty!. 5. Expansion of the death penalty: Pakistan, Maldives. 6. The death penalty in...

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This document outlines Amnesty International’s concerns in 17 countries in Western Europe. The concerns include: death penalty legislation; conscientious objection to military service; ill-treatment or torture of people held in police custody; detention of asylum-seekers; alleged forced admissions...