This papers describes Amnesty International’s concerns about the caning of prisoners in Singapore. Two cases are described. Qwek Kee Chong was given 48 strokes of the cane on 8 April 1988: he had been convicted on four charges of armed robbery in November 1987, after pleading guilty at a trial...

This document contains the texts of four speeches delivered at Amnesty International’s seminar on the death penalty held on 3 September 1990 during the Eighth UN Crime Congress in Havana, Cuba. The speakers were: Mr Justice P N Bhagwati, former Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India; Professor...

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Evidence gathered by Amnesty International in June and July 1991 suggests that the Tatmadaw (Myanmar armed forces) continue to seize, ill-treat and kill members of ethnic and religious minorities in rural areas. These violations occur in the context of counter-insurgency campaigns against armed...

1. Turkey: Turkish Constitutional Court judgement results in further conditional releases of political prisoners. 2. UK: AI writes again to government about Northern Ireland killings. 3. UK: Amnesty International welcomes inquiry into Broadwater Farm cases.

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According to the newspaper Vecernji List, Baton Beqa, a trade unionist, was arrested and tried after traffic police searched his car and found a list of members of independent trade unionists in Kosovo who had collected donations for ethnic Albanians and had been dismissed from employment. He was...

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