1. Yugoslavia: AI appeals for humane treatment of prisoners. 2. Ethiopia: Family of former POCs receiving medical treatment in the UK. 3. East Timor: AI gives statement on human rights to United Nations Committee.
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...
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.
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...