Amnesty International’s concerns about continuing human rights violations in Sri Lanka in 1990 are summarized here. Thousands of “disappearances” and extrajudicial executions by government forces were reported in the northeast and south. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) reportedly killed...

Hamadi Jebali, editor of the weekly al-Fair (Dawn) was sentenced to one year in prison by a military court in Tunis on 31 January 1991. His magazine had published an article calling for the abolition of military courts in Tunisia. Mohammed Nouri, the writer of the article, was sentenced to six...

This report gives the names of students, engineers, medical doctors and opposition party leaders adminstratively detained in early February in connection with their positions on the Gulf war. The detained are: Ehab Hamdi Mohammed, Wala’ Fahmi ‘Ali, Mohammed Hosam al-Din Mukhtar, al-Sayyid Fathi...

Magdy Ahmed Hussein was arrested on Friday 25 January 1991 as he left a Cairo mosque. A former member of parliament, he is deputy secretary general of the opposition Socialist Labour Party and deputy editor of its weekly newspaper al-Sha’ab (The People). He is reported to have spoken against the...

Brazil, Turkey, Chad, Iraq, Venezuela, Mauritania, Jordan, Yemen: clemency on AI visit, Guatemala, Saudi Arabia, UK, AI visit to India; Focus: Women: Nevruz Turkdogan – Turkey, Embarca ment Taleb ould Husein – Morocco, Wafa ‘Idriss – SyriaMaria Nonna Santa Clara – Philippines; Cases: Esteban...

There has been an alarming increase in the use of the death penalty in China in 1990. Amnesty International has recorded more than 960 death sentences during the year but it believes the true number may be much higher. At least 750 executions were reported.

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