1. Bangladesh: Amnesty international calls for reforms to protect human rights. 2. USSR: killings in Lithuania

Bayo Adelumola was sentenced to death following his conviction for murder by the High Court in Lagos on 12 June 1984. He was aged 18 when he committed the crime, and was a high school student.

Moussa Habouba has been held without charge or trial since his arrest in April 1984, in connection with an unsuccessful coup attempt. At present he is detained in Bafoussam Prison, and is reported to suffer from hypertension and malaria. He is not receiving medical attention.

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On 14 January 1991 Lithuanian authorities released information on 14 people, including one Soviet soldier, said to have died the day before when Soviet troops moved against demonstrators outside the television centre in the republican capital of Vilnius. One is said to have suffered a heart attack,...

Reports have been received of torture of members of the Afar ethnic group in Djibouti who have been arrested recently. There has been a persistent pattern in recent years of torture of government opponents by the security police or the police.

Amnesty International is concerned that Hussain Jandoubi, a 36-year-old high school teacher from Kef, has been held in garde à vue (incommunicado) detention for 24 days and may be at risk of torture or ill-treatment.

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This document gives information about the detention of a student leader, Juan Carlos Rodriguez Flores of San Potosi University, and threats made against 12 others, including Israel Mendoza, Felipe Canizales and Blas Salazar Cardozo. Juan Carlos was arrested without warrant on 4 January 1991 by...

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