South Korea: Rights abuses reverse two years of positive trends says Amnesty International [Korean]
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Amnesty International Newsletter, Vol. XIX, No. 12. December 1989
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Cuba: Political Imprisonment In Cuba – A Summary of Amnesty International’s Recent Concerns
This document provides information on a number recent cases of political imprisonment in Cuba of concern to Amnesty International. Since the end of 1988 the Cuban authorities have adopted a less tolerant attitude towards public dissent and there has been an increase in the number of reports of...
El Salvador: Fear of extrajudicial execution: Adrian Esquino Lisco, Natividad de Jesus Mondragon, Valentin Perez Cortez
Amnesty International is concerned for the safety of Adrian Esquino Lisco, member of the Executive Board of the Unidad Nacional de Trabajadores Salvadoreños (UNTS, the National union of Salvadorian Workers, and leader of the Asociación Nacional de Indígenas (ANIS), the National Association of...
Turkey: Fair trial for nine inhabitants of Balveren village in Southeastern Anatolia
Mustafa Sidar, Yasin Istek (Islek), Mahmut Zeyrek, Halit Gokalp, Emin Altan, Addullah Bayram, Ahmet Ibran, Ibrahim Bayik and Abdulvahap Sidar were arrested following the killing of five people near Balveren village in June 1989. All alleged they were tortured while held in incommunicado detention...
El Salvador: Possible extra-judicial killings: Febe Elizabeth Velasquez, Ricardo Humberto Cestoni, Rosa Hilda Sanabria de Elias, Julia Tatiana Aguirre Mendoza, Vicente Salvador Melgar, Jose Daniel Lopez Melendez, Luis Edgardo Vasquez Marquez,
Ten people were killed and approximately 36 other people injured in a bomb attack on the offices of the Federación Nacional Sindical de Trabajadores Salvadoreños (FENASTRAS), the National Federation of Salvadorian Workers, on 31 October 1989.
Mauritania 1986 – 1989: background to a crisis: three years of political imprisonment, torture and unfair trials
This paper describes the pattern of human rights violations since arrests of suspected government opponents began in 1986 (torture, unfair trials, deaths of prisoners), and the escalating scale of abuses since April 1989 when in both Mauritania and Senegal hundreds of people were deliberately...
Amnesty International Newsletter, Vol. XIX, No. 11. November 1989
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Amnesty International Newsletter, Vol. XIX, No. 10. October 1989
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India: The death penalty
The Indian Constitution protects the right to life. Yet on average over a dozen Indians are executed every year for criminal offences. Most of them are poor and illiterate. Although the Indian Constitution guarantees all its citizens equality before the law, the fact that people are executed...
Peru: Human rights violations directed against peasant communities
AI has received reports that during June 1989 army counter-insurgency units entered at least two peasant communities in Lucanas province, Ayacucho department. In Pampamarca, the villagers were made to stay in the main square for two days. Soldiers looted farmers’ houses and at least 10...
Morocco: Medical concern: Prolonged hunger strike
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