According to reports, about 440 patients and 320 staff from Vukovar Hospital were reportedly detained by JNA troops after the fall of Vukovar on 18 November 1991. AI is concerned that 185 patients, including wounded members of the Croatian Army, and 38 auxilliary staff from the hospital are...

Some 185 patients and 38 auxiliary staff from Vukovar Hospital, detained by JNA forces on 18 November 1991, are reported to remain in detention. The Croatian authorities have established that some are held in various detention centres in Serbia, mainly in Sremska Mitrovica and Nis prisons. The...

Amnesty International is concerned by the continued use of executed prisoners as a source of organs for transplantation in Taiwan. Legislation was introduced in October 1990, permitting the practice and the first execution followed by removal of organs for use in transplants took place in December...

Thousands of suspected members of the Islamic al-Nahda (Renaissance) movement have been arrested in Tunisia over the past 18 months. Many have been held incommunicado for protracted periods. At least 10 men, including 8 alleged sympathizers of al-Nahda, are believed to have died in police custody...

1. Sierra Leone: Amnesty International visit to Sierra Leone. 2. Amnesty International fears for Malawi bishops’ safety. 3. Hungary: AI urges the Hungarian authorities to investigate reports of ill treatment of detained foreign nationals (includes addendum). 4. Syria: Human rights activists...

An unofficial source reports that Yevgeny Berestovsky was sentenced to death on 26 April 1991 by the regional court in Dnepropetrovsk. He had been convicted of premeditated murder under aggravating circumstances (Article 93 of the Criminal Code). The Ukrainian Supreme Court upheld the sentence on...

An unofficial source reports that Leonid Kupriyanov was sentenced to death on 29 November 1990 by the city court in Kiev. He had been convicted, with three others, of premeditated murder under aggravating circumstances, assault with intent to rob, and concealment of a crime. The Ukrainian Supreme...

Sideris Georgiou, a Jehovah’s Witness, was jailed for four months on 2 March 1992 by Nicosia Military Court. He had been convicted of refusing to perform reservist exercises. A futher three conscientious objectors, Panikos Makri, Aristos Aristidou and Filippos Filippou, all Jehovah’s Witnesses, are...

Two people have recently been sentenced to death in Ghana in separate murder cases. Kwaku Duroh, aged 48, was convicted of murdering an 80-year- old woman and sentenced to death by the Ashanti Regional Public Tribunal, apparently some time in January 1992. Kofi Ntorie, a 40-year-old farmer, was...

An unofficial source reports that Vadim Petrenko was sentenced to death on 22 May 1991 by a court in the Ukraine. The exact place and the nature of the charges are not known. The sentence was upheld by the Supreme Court of the Ukraine on 6 June 1991. A petition for clemency to the President...

Unofficial sources report that Valery Parshin was sentenced to death on 1 August 1990, place unknown. He had apparently attempted to break out of a corrective labour colony where he had been serving a nine-and-a-half year sentence. The sentence was reportedly upheld on 25 February 1992. The case is...

1. AI Representative visits Algeria. 2. Cyprus: Amnesty International condemns jailing of conscientious objector. 3. AI database on human rights violations goes public. 4. Brazil: Court orders retrial in Francisco “Chico” Mendes murder. 5. Azerbaydzhan: AI deplores human rights abuses in...