This report updates the AI document “Preliminary findings on killings of unarmed civilians, arbitrary arrests and summary executions since 3 June 1989” (ASA 17/60/89). Serious human rights violations continue to occur in China: AI has not recorded any significant improvement since August 1989....

The above-named was arrested on 20 September 1989 and has since been held in Port Sudan prison, without charge or trial.

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The human rights situation in Indonesia and East Timor has not improved over the last year, in spite of government promises of greater political openness. At least four political prisoners were executed in February 1990 after more than 20 years in prison and six others were thought to be in...

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Amnesty International has learnt that Oswaldo Antonio Alfaro Estevez was found dead in mid-November, a few days after his “disappearance”. His parents subsequently identified the body in the Morgue of the General Cemetery in San Salvador as that of their “disappeared” son. An autopsy examination...

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Amnesty International has learned of the reported arrest and subsequent “disappearance” of Oswaldo Antonio ALFARO ESTEVEZ, Rubén Ernesto IRAHETA ABREGO and Pedro Edilberto RAMIREZ ARIAS.

The detention without trial of suspected political opponents is cause for grave concern in Saudi Arabia. There appears to be a clear pattern of suspected political opponents being arrested without warrant and held for long periods without trial – sometimes for over two years. During the first few...