Colombia: fear of torture / “disappearance”: Adela Acevedo Lombana
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Zaire: Further information: Incommunicado detention/ill-treatment concern and new concerns – Torture/Unfair trial/”Disappearance”: about 30 soldiers arrested at “La Voix du Zaire” radio and television complex following an alleged coup attempt
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Weekly Update Service 14/92 (includes addition)
1. Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan: First AI visit. 2. Sudan: Women arrested following demonstration. 3. Peru: AI concerned for human rights following political changes. 4. USA: AI calls for clemency in Texas execution cases.
Sudan: Further information: Legal and health concern
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Sudan: Further information: Legal / Health Concern
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Saudi Arabia: fear of imminent flogging / legal concern: Maha Sa’ad-ul-Din Banat, Ahmed Hussein al-Zahrani
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Singapore: Further information: Death penalty: Sim Ah Cheoh
It was reported on 28 March 1992 that President Wee Kim Wee has granted clemency to Sim Ah Cheoh.
India Campaign: Update to Appeal Cases
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Sudan: Legal concern: Nine women and a child arrested
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South Korea: Appeal on behalf of Kang Ki-hun
Kang Ki-hun, a 27-year-old staff member of Chonminnyon (National Democratic Alliance of Korea) was arrested on 24 June 1991. The main charge against him was of aiding and abetting the suicide of Kim Ki-sol, a Chonminnyon staff member who had committed self-immolation on 8 May 1991 in protest against the beating to death of a…
Statements to the 48th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (Geneva, 27 January to 6 March 1992)
1. Agenda item 10: Optional protocol to Convention against Torture; Draft declaration on enforced disappearance: oral intervention by Amnesty International (AI). 2. Agenda item 12: Human rights and internal armed conflict: new challenges for the international community: oral intervention by AI. 3. Agenda item 4: Israeli Occupied Territories: oral statement by AI. 4. Agenda item…
State of Cambodia: Human rights developments: 1 October 1991 to 31 January 1992 (includes 77-page appendices listing prisoners released and still detained)
This report describes developments in Cambodia from October 1991-January 1992 of relevance to AI’s mandate. AI was allowed, for the first time, to visit Cambodia from 8-28 December 1991 to conduct a preliminary assessment of developments, both positive and problematic. Background to the Peace Agreement of October 1991 is given and releases of political prisoners…