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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 report updates “Bangladesh: Human rights in the Chittagong Hill Tracts 1989-1990 (ASA 13/04/91). It covers violations reported both under the interim government and that of Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, e.g. unacknowledged detention, detention without trial, torture and death of tribal...

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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 document describes Amnesty International’s concerns about a number of issues relevant to the agenda of the forthcoming Commission. These include human rights violations such as “disappearances”, arbitrary detention, summary or arbitrary executions, torture and religious intolerance, dealt with...

Sok Tal-yun, aged 60, is serving a life sentence in Chonju Prison on charges of meeting an alleged North Korean spy and passing military secrets to him. He was arrested on Chin Island on 21 August 1980 and taken to the headquarters of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency in Namsan, Seoul, the...

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...

Haiti, Tunisia, UK, Chad, Focus: Peru, Jordan / Saudi Arabia: Muhammad Al Fasi, Pakistan, Macao, South Africa, Colombia: Dr Eduardo Umana Mendoza, Burundi, USSR, Guatemala, Morocco, Yemen ; Cases: Abie Nathan – Israel, Vic Williams – UK, Jampa Ngodrup – China

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Dr Rabah Mohanna is a 42-year-old senior doctor from the Rimal area of Gaza City and Vice-President of the Arab Medical Association in Gaza. He was arrested on 29 October 1991, the eve of the Middle East Peace Conference in Madrid, to which he publicly stated his opposition on a number of...