UA 33/91 – Turkey: fear of torture: Sait Dilmac, Zekiye Dilmac, Nezete Dilmac, Zubeyir Ayhan
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Sri Lanka: Summary of human rights concerns during 1990
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)...
Medical letter-writing action: Ethiopia: Mulugetta Mosissa, Demissie Kebede, Nagari Fayissa, Nigisti Giorgis, Abdulkadir Hassan Mohamed and Tesfa-Mariam Zeggai
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....
Further information on UA 418/90 (AMR 34/62/90, 15 October and follow-up AMR 34/73/90) – Guatemala: fear of “disappearance”: Maria Tiu Tojin and her one-month-old baby daughter Maria Josefa Tiu Tojin and new names: Victoria Tiu Tojin, Magdalena Perpuac Me
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UA 24/91 – Brazil: death threats: Joao Lucas da Silva, Cicero da Silva, Jose Cicero da Silva, Maria Aparecida Pedrosa
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UA 28/91 – Turkey: fear of torture: Cahit Ozgur Baharli, Metin Turan, Ogur Tuzun, Gamze Turan, Yasar Demircan, Nuran Askeri, Saadet Toksoy, Fatma Tokay, Huseyin Can Balicanli, Pasa Cobanbas, Yasar Selcuk, Melda Gul, Bulent …, Bulent Bagci
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USSR: Killings in Lithuania
Amnesty International is concerned at reports that up to 13 peaceful, unarmed demonstrators were killed by Soviet troops in the Lithuanian capital of Vilnius on 13 January 1990.
UA 10/91 – Philippines: fear of torture: Cherry Mendoza, Cecilia Sanchez, Enrique Calima
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AI News Release: Senegal: Torture escalates in South, extrajudicial executions reported for the first time in recent years
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Israel and the Occupied Territories: Oral statement to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on the Israeli Occupied Territories
Amnesty International’s (AI) concerns in the Occupied Territories include large scale use of detention without charge or trial, systematic ill- treatment of detainees and the killing of civilians by the security forces. Existing guidelines on the use of force, particularly those governing the...
Further information on UA 425/90 (MDE 18/01/90, 22 October) – Lebanon: extrajudicial executions: further killings and arrests by Syrian forces
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UA 516/90 – Philippines: “disappearance” / threat of abduction: Rosario Ladronio and her 2-month-old baby
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