Research
Europe and Central Asia
Discrimination
On 12 April 1991 the Turkish Parliament passed a new law, the “Anti-Terror” law” and at the same time repealed several articles of the Turkish Penal Code. Among the articles repealed was Article 142/3. This is the article under which the three Human Rights Association members, Vedat Aydin, Ahmet...
July 1, 1991
Research
Albania
Turkey, Focus: Good news, Prisoners of conscience, Iraq, Albania, Niger, Rwanda, Honduras, Cameroon, UK, China, Peru, Syria, AI Visit: North Korea and Ghana, Togo, ; Cases: Sheikh Samir ‘Ali Al-Ribeh – Saudi Arabia, To Thuy Yen – Vietnam, Raila Odinga – Kenya
July 1, 1991
Research
Europe and Central Asia
Children
This document looks at recent developments affecting the use of the death penalty in the USSR, including the initiatives taken by individual republics with respect to death penalty legislation. It reports on the appeals and clemency procedures open to a person who has been sentenced to death and...
July 1, 1991
Research
Americas
Armed Conflict
This report documents mass violations of human rights in Peru which have taken place since the new government took office in July 1990. These abuses occur in the context of an increasingly violent campaign by armed opposition groups, in particular the “Sendero Luminoso” (Shining Path). The...
June 30, 1991
Research
Americas
Armed Conflict
Amnesty International’s (AI) concern about the high number of “disappearances” which occur in Peru are described in this report. More cases of “disappearance” in Peru have been reported to the United Working Group on Enforced or Involuntar Disappearances than from anywhere else. AI has received...
June 30, 1991
Research
Asia and the Pacific
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
This paper gives information about the case of a group of prisoners of conscience who were arrested in north-east China in 1989. They were tried in late 1990, 17 months after their arrest. One of them, Tang Yuanjuan, a 33-year-old assistant engineer at the Changchun no. 1 Car Manufacturing Factory,...
June 30, 1991
Research
Europe and Central Asia
Armed Conflict
This paper describes Amnesty International’s concern about reports of repressive measures taken by the security forces against the villagers of Payamli (Deravit) near Siirt in southeast Turkey. The authorities apparently suspect the villagers of sympathizing with the armed opposition group the...
June 30, 1991
Research
Asia and the Pacific
Detention
Cho Song-woo, Lee Hae-hak, Lee Chang-bok and Kim Hi-taek are all serving prison sentences of between 18 months and two years on charges of making illegal contact with North Koreans and attempting to establish an anti- state organization (Pomminnyon). Cho Song-woo, Lee Chang-bok and Lee Hae- hak...
June 30, 1991