Research
Cameroon
Mali, China, AI mission: India, Focus: Morocco; Egypt, Djibouti, Tunisia, Cuba, Israel: Dr Sari Nusseibeh, USSR, Cameroon, Guatemala ; Cases: Ma Theingee – Myanmar, Kenneth Matiba – Kenya, Leonidas Tsaousis – Greece
April 1, 1991
Research
Brazil
Death Penalty
1. Death sentences and executions in 1990. 2. USSR releases death penalty statistics. 3. International treaties. 4. Moves towards abolition: Yugoslavia, Poland, Greece. 5. Commutation and stays in USA, Jamaica. 6. Attempts to reintroduce the death penalty: Brazil, Philippines, Israel. 7. USSR:...
March 31, 1991
Research
Americas
Detention
This document reports AI’s concern about the “disappearance” of Ernesto Castillo Paez, a 22-year-old sociology student at the Catholic University of Lima. He was detained by police on 21 October 1990 and has not been seen since. Police authorities deny knowledge of his detention. At the request of...
March 31, 1991
Research
China
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
The list attached to this paper documents 310 cases of political prisoners tried since 1989; however AI believes many more may have been tried in secret. Hundreds of dissident workers, students, intellectuals, Tibetans and members of religious groups including Catholics, Protestants and Muslims...
March 31, 1991
Research
Chile
Detention
This paper presents examples of the types of human rights violations which are inflicted on health personnel throughout the world, in countries of different political systems and different levels of political stability. The abuses documented here include arbitrary arrest and imprisonment without...
March 31, 1991
Research
China
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
This document describes the main human rights violations reported in China during the past two years. Thousands of pro-democracy protestors have been arbitrarily detained. Many have received long prison sentences, e.g. Chen Lantao. Tibetan nationalists, including Agyal Tsering, a Buddhist monk,...
March 31, 1991