East Asia
Detention
This document describes Amnesty International’s (AI) concerns about repression of members of a teachers’ union in South Korea. Lee Yong-ju, Chairman of the South Kyongsang provincial branch of Chonkyojo (Korean Teachers and Educational Workers Union) and Ahn Jong-bok, Vice-Chairman of...
November 1, 1990
Myanmar
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
This report describes some of the human rights violations which have taken place in Myanmar between May and September 1990, including the arrest of political activists and ill-treatment of political prisoners. It reports the continuing detention of members and leaders of the National League for...
November 1, 1990
Asia and the Pacific
Armed Conflict
This report documents human rights violations which occurred in 1989 and 1990 on the island of Bougainville, a part of North Solomons Province, Papua New Guinea, where the government faced armed opposition from the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA). In 1988 the BRA began a campaign seeking the...
November 1, 1990
Israel and Occupied Palestinian Territories
Detention
The above-named, a field worker with the human rights organization al-Haq, was arrested on 12 September 1990 and served with a four-month administrative detention order on 18 September. At an appeal hearing against the detention order it was alleged that ‘Iyad Haddad had participated in...
October 31, 1990
India
Killings and Disappearances
This report is a study of human rights violations in the Northeastern state of Manipur. It describes a pattern of arbitrary arrests, detentions and torture of hundreds of villagers in and around Oinam by the Assam Rifles during “Operation Bluebird” conducted after armed secessionists...
October 31, 1990