This document reports on developments in investigation of human rights violations under the previous government of General Stroessner. It examines the human rights initiatives of the Rodriguez Government and reports on specific investigations. They are: investigations into unmarked graves at Santa...

This research paper documents violations of human rights which have taken place in Iran since 1987. It reports widespread arbitrary arrest and detention of political opponents of the regime, unfair summary trials, torture and mass execution of political prisoners and of ordinary criminals. At least...

This document examines provisions of the draft constitution of Laos which cover areas of concern to Amnesty International (AI). AI’s recommendations on amendments to the draft constitution concern the protection of the right to life and the abolition of the death penalty; safeguards...

This document reports the repression of peaceful opponents of Myanmar’s Military Government (SLORC), including political party activists and buddhist monks. Unofficial reports suggest that some 90 National League for Democracy (NLD) members were arrested in late October, along with the entire...

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Several prominent political activists, detained without charge for over a year for their part in the 1989 pro-democracy protests, were charged in November 1990 with “counter-revolutionary” offences. This paper examines these charges; it also assesses the likelihood of the accused...

Although Amnesty International has been pleased to note that the Cambodian Government has demonstrated an increased committment to protection of human rights, it is still concerned at a number of abuses which appear to be continuing. A government source has revealed that local authorities were...

This document describes four cases of academics working in higher education who have been detained without trial in Sudan since the military government seized power in June 1989. They are: Dr Ushari Ahmed Mahmoud, lecturer in languages at the University of Khartoum and director of an Arabic...

Widespread abuses of human rights have been perpetrated by Iraqi forces following the invasion of Kuwait on 2 August. This document details some of these abuses, confining itself to those violations which fall within Amnesty International’s mandate.

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