Between 1982 and 1989 several hundred people in Casamance region were arrested for political reasons connected with a campaign for greater autonomy; some were convicted on the basis of statements to the police which may have been made under duress. About 10 people remain in prison. The document...

On 7 March 1990 Almond Nofela testified before the government-appointed commission of inquiry into political killings on his involvement, as member of a police anti-terrorist unit, in the 1981 abduction and murder of civil rights lawyer Griffiths Mxenge. Mr Nofela was one of the many witnesses...

This report updates the AI document “Preliminary findings on killings of unarmed civilians, arbitrary arrests and summary executions since 3 June 1989” (ASA 17/60/89). Serious human rights violations continue to occur in China: AI has not recorded any significant improvement since August 1989....

Amnesty International has learnt that Oswaldo Antonio Alfaro Estevez was found dead in mid-November, a few days after his “disappearance”. His parents subsequently identified the body in the Morgue of the General Cemetery in San Salvador as that of their “disappeared” son. An autopsy examination...

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Amnesty International has learned of the reported arrest and subsequent “disappearance” of Oswaldo Antonio ALFARO ESTEVEZ, Rubén Ernesto IRAHETA ABREGO and Pedro Edilberto RAMIREZ ARIAS.

Amnesty International is concerned for the safety of Adrian Esquino Lisco, member of the Executive Board of the Unidad Nacional de Trabajadores Salvadoreños (UNTS, the National union of Salvadorian Workers, and leader of the Asociación Nacional de Indígenas (ANIS), the National Association of...

Ten people were killed and approximately 36 other people injured in a bomb attack on the offices of the Federación Nacional Sindical de Trabajadores Salvadoreños (FENASTRAS), the National Federation of Salvadorian Workers, on 31 October 1989.

This paper describes the pattern of human rights violations since arrests of suspected government opponents began in 1986 (torture, unfair trials, deaths of prisoners), and the escalating scale of abuses since April 1989 when in both Mauritania and Senegal hundreds of people were deliberately...

AI has received reports that during June 1989 army counter-insurgency units entered at least two peasant communities in Lucanas province, Ayacucho department. In Pampamarca, the villagers were made to stay in the main square for two days. Soldiers looted farmers’ houses and at least 10 farmers are...

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