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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

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:...

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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...

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...

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...

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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,...

Amnesty International’s concern about some 100 members of the Communist Party of Malaya are being “rehabilitated” through indefinite detention without trial under the Internal Security Act is reported here. The detainees ended their 41-year-long armed struggle against the government in December...

1. Colombia: Convention 87 (incl. killings of German Antonio Redondo and Gloria Amparo Viveros Lucumy). 2. Lesotho: Convention no. 87 (incl. arrest of five teachers’ leaders and killing of Bathobakae Mokhothu). 3. Pakistan: Convention 87 (incl. arrests of Usman Ghani, Mohammed Khan, Feroz Karim and...

Reverend Hong Keun-soo, currently pastor of the Hyang Rin Presbyterian Church in Seoul, was arrested on 20 February 1991 by members of the Agency for National Secutiry Planning. He was detained and charged under Articles 3 and 7 of the National Security Law. Article 3 prohibits membership of an...