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This report describes a pattern of “disappearances” during 1990 and provides details of the fate some 25 of the “disappeared”. In most cases where there is reliable evidence, the perpetrators have been members of the various security forces or semi-official vigilante groups....

According to reports, Lester Mozombite Cartagena, Amanda Guerra Lopez and three unnamed minors were ordered off a bus at the military checkpoint at KM.86 of Federico Basadre Highway and detained. Amanda Guerra was allegedly raped by several soldiers while detained at KM.86 base. Her detention and...

Amnesty International (AI) continues to be concerned about the types of human rights violations described below. People continue to be detained for non-violently exercising their right to freedom of expression and association. They include Mehmet Fehim Isik and Ali Ozler. Others have been detained...

AI’s concerns about abuses of human rights in Iran are stated here. They include mass executions after unfair trials, arbitrary arrests, detention of prisoners of conscience and torture. Specific instances cited include the detention of more than 20 people, some elderly or in poor health, in...

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Amnesty International’s concerns about continuing human rights violations in Sri Lanka in 1990 are summarized here. Thousands of “disappearances” and extrajudicial executions by government forces were reported in the northeast and south. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)...

The six prisoners named above are all reported to be in ill-health, some as a result of earlier ill-treatment or torture. They are, apparently, without access to adequate medical attention. Three have been adopted by AI as prisoners of conscience; the status of the others is being investigated....

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