On 24 July 1991 a sweeping amnesty law came into force which Amnesty International fears could block investigations into past human rights abuses. Among the crimes covered by the law are killings, torture and unlawful arrests committed by police and military personnel, and failures by judges to...
In April 1991 Soviet troops and Azerbaydzhani special police units began what was officially described as an operation to check compliance with passport regulations and confiscate illegally-held weapons in areas of the Republic of Azerbaydzhan which have been the scene of inter-ethnic violence....
This document details Amnesty International’s concern about the killings in late 1990 of members of the Truka and Atikum indigenous communities in Pernambuco State and about evidence suggesting official complicity or even involvement in these crimes. The killings fit a pattern of assaults and...