Amnesty International’s (AI) concerns in the Occupied Territories include large scale use of detention without charge or trial, systematic ill- treatment of detainees and the killing of civilians by the security forces. Existing guidelines on the use of force, particularly those governing the...

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This research paper documents violations of human rights which have taken place in Iran since 1987. It reports widespread arbitrary arrest and detention of political opponents of the regime, unfair summary trials, torture and mass execution of political prisoners and of ordinary criminals. At least...

Although Amnesty International has been pleased to note that the Cambodian Government has demonstrated an increased committment to protection of human rights, it is still concerned at a number of abuses which appear to be continuing. A government source has revealed that local authorities were...

Widespread abuses of human rights have been perpetrated by Iraqi forces following the invasion of Kuwait on 2 August. This document details some of these abuses, confining itself to those violations which fall within Amnesty International’s mandate.

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Amnesty International’s concerns about human rights abuses against members of indigenous communities (descended from the Supia and Katio Indian groups) in Caldas and about the apparent lack of progress in official inquiries into them are recorded in this document. The abuses described here...

The above-named were detained by the army in the village of Santa Clara in the Amacchel area of El Quiche on 29 August 1990. They were among a group of 85 members of a Comunidad de Poblacion en Resistencia (CPR), Community of People in Resistance, which was detained by about 100 soldiers and 40...

This report documents human rights violations which occurred in 1989 and 1990 on the island of Bougainville, a part of North Solomons Province, Papua New Guinea, where the government faced armed opposition from the Bougainville Revolutionary Army (BRA). In 1988 the BRA began a campaign seeking the...

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