El Salvador
Detention
Amnesty International has been informed that the remaining nine members of Federación Sindical Revolucionaria (FSR, Revolutionary Trade Union Federation) have been released. Eight were released in July and one prior to then.
September 24, 1984
El Salvador
Disappearances
Amnesty International is concerned at reports of the abduction of the two people named in this Urgent Action in separate incidents
August 24, 1984
Brazil
Censorship and Freedom of Expression
Prisoner of conscience, Juvêncio Mazzarollo, a journalist, was released from detention in Curitiba on 6 April 1984 after serving eighteen months of a four year prison sentence under Articles 42 and 33 of the (unamended) Law of National Security. He had staged a hunger-strike in protest against his...
July 13, 1984
El Salvador
Human Rights Defenders and Activists
Amnesty International has learned that Juan Salvador RAMOS HERNANDEZ, who was detained on 19 January 1984 by members of the Salvadorian security forces is still in detention, together with eight people whose names were already known to Amnesty International.
May 3, 1984