Amnesty International has collected the names of nearly 200 people arrested between January and July 1991 for political activities opposed to the SLORC. All appear still to be detained. This brings to more than 1,500 the total number of people known to AI who may be currently held by the ruling...
Amnesty International has received persistent reports of human rights violations in 1991 in the northern Ugandan districts of Gulu, Kitgum, Lira and Apac, committed in particular by the Ugandan Army (NRA). These violations occur in the context of operations against rebel opposition forces such as...
1. China: executions follow mass sentencing rallies in drug cases; 2. Canada: Prisoners extradited to face capital charges in the USA; 3. Nigeria: Commutations in coup attempt case; 4. Switzerland: Progress towards abolition; 5. India: Prisoner escapes execution after hangman faints. 6. Mongolia:...
This paper incudes accounts of the rape and sexual abuse of women in 15 countries. The violations range from the gang rape of a girl of only 14 to the rape of a heavily pregnant woman and the sexual humiliation and body searching of a woman aged seventy years. The perpetrators of these abuses were,...
This document continues the exchange of views with the Colombian authorities which was presented in papers earlier in 1991 (AMR 23/20/91 and AMR 23/37/91). It consists of a letter from the Colombian Minister of the Interior, dated 28 August 1991, which criticizes Amnesty International for giving a...
This report describes five cases of women who have been imprisoned, raped or tortured. In Peru on 25 September 1990 Amanda Guerra Lopez and a girl, aged 15, were reportedly raped by soldiers after the bus they were travelling on was stopped at a checkpoint near the Km 86 base on Federico Basadre...
Erdogan Kizilkaya, aged 23, was detained by police in Kayseri, on 4 August 1991. A medical certificate dated 5 August stated that he had no signs of injury on his body but he alleges that he was beaten by police from the moment he entered their vehicle after his arrest. At police headquarters he...