This document describes reports of torture allegedly committed by police in Pakistan since 1989. Details about cases of death in police custody are also given, along with information about killings following alleged fake “encounters” with police. Among the cases documented are: Abdul Khaliq Mehar,...

This documents reports on evidence of military involvement in human rights abuses, including “disappearance”, torture and extrajudicial execution, which a recent sworn statement by a former military intelligence agent appears to provide. The two cases highlighted here are those of two young women,...

Since the government of Jorge Serrano Elias took office in January 1991, Amnesty International has been seriously concerned about a renewed wave of human rights violations against popular movements in Guatemala. Trade unionists and members of popular movements have been threatened, intimidated,...

This document describes a continuing pattern of human rights violations against people involved in the labour movement in the Philippines. Victims have usually been those accused by the authorities of sympathy with the armed insurgents or of being fronts for the outlawed Communist Party of the...

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Saycan Yalcin, a member of the executive committee of Tayad (Solidarity Association of prisoners’ relatives), was arrested in January 1991. He was taken to the Political Branch of Istanbul Police headquarters, and held incommunicado for 15 days. Saycan Yalcin was on hunger-strike during this time....

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Since the start of the violent anti-government campaign by Sikh opposition groups in the Punjab in 1983, thousands of people have been arrested by police and security forces. Prisoners have been detained, often for long periods, without trial under provisions of special legislation. Reports of...

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