Mediha Curabaz, a 25-year-old nurse arrested in August 1991 and released in November, has recently spoken publicly about her treatment in police custody. The police reportedly interrogated her about a poster campaign in Adana allegedly organized by the the illegal TIKB (Revolutionary Communists’...
Amnesty International has received reports of grave and systematic violations of human rights in Haiti since the coup of 29 September 1991. This paper describes killings, torture and ill-treatment, arbitrary or illegal arrests, threats and destruction of property directed against those regarded as...
1. Israel and the Occupied Territories: Amnesty International concerned about secret detentions in Israel. 2. Morocco: Longest-serving POCs released. 3. China / Tibet: POCs still held and detainees still ill- treated.
Dr Ejup Emina Statovci, a 51-year-old lecturer from the University of Pristina and an ethnic Albanian from Kosovo, was arrested on 18 January 1992. He was sentenced to 60 days in prison for having “insulted and belittled the social and political order of Yugoslavia and the moral and patriotic...
Amnesty International has learned that Mark Hopkinson was executed as scheduled by the state of Wyoming, USA, on 22 January 1992. This is the first execution to be carried out in Wyoming for 26 years.