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.
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...
The above-named was arrested on 30 August 1990. After 18 days he was brought before a judge and had his detention extended by 70 days – his lawyer was not present. On 28 September he was visited by another lawyer and reported to have been deprived of sleep for long periods and to have been...