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Amnesty International is gravely concerned at the rise in the use of modern electro-shock “stun” weapons by torturers. Reports that law enforcement officers in more and more countries are being equipped with such products raises serious fears that they will be used to torture detainees in an...

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The present military government in Nigeria has a record of open contempt for human rights. This report begins with an audit of the human rights record of the present Nigerian government. It demonstrates how the government has failed to meet its international human rights obligations under the...

This document is the text of a speech given by Ross Daniels, member of AI’s International Executive Committee (IEC) responsible for Asia, at the Manila People’s Forum on APEC (Asia and Pacific Economic Cooperation) in November 1996, and also six illustrative case studies from the APEC region on the...

Since the coming to power in 1990 of General Idriss Deby, Amnesty International has repeatedly drawn to the attention of the Chadian authorities cases of arbitrary arrest, torture and ill-treatment including rape, deaths in detention, attacks on human rights defenders and the massacre of...

This report assesses the human rights situation in Turkey since 1990 in the context of intense political violence and impunity. It shows that torture or ill-treatment continue to be routinely inflicted on people detained for common criminal offences as well as on political charges. “Disappearance”...

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Amnesty International delivered one written and three oral statements to the 52nd session of the UN Commission on Human Rights. It made statements on Burundi, on its concerns in the Israeli-Occupied Territories (agenda item 4) and with several other NGOs gave a joint oral statement on human rights...

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