Haiti: Further information: Fear for physical safety: Father Jean-Juste and many others
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Yugoslavia: Further Information: Arrest and ill-treatment: Father Josip Bogovic, Nikola Nikolic, Drazen Rendulic
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Sudan: legal concern / fear of torture: Nasr Hassan Bashir Nasr, Zaki Hassan Bashir Nasr
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Turkey: fear of torture: Mehmet Çelik
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Turkey: Further information: Fear of torture: Ilyas Ersoz, Mehmet Uzun, Vedat Demir, Burhan Demir, Ubeydullah Demir, Bahattin Cicek, Husamettin Demir, Ramazan Gumus
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Burundi: legal / ill-treatment concern: Jean-Berchmans Baragunzwa, Charles Mugiraneza and 20 others held at the Brigade speciale de recherche in Bujumbura
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Burundi: “disappearance”: Joseph Bagalwa, Justin Bucumi, Jean Ciiza, Dominique Kazimiri, Paul Mbonayo, Edi-Diomede Nijimbere, Joseph Ntahombaye, Ferdinand Ntamagendero, Joel Ntahonshikiye, Audace Simbizi
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Guatemala: death threats / intimidation: Roberto Yancor, Jorge Ramirez, Jose Mercedes Sotz Cate
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Sri Lanka: “disappearance” / unacknowledged detention: Markandu Mahadevan Kumar (alias Shankar)
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South Africa: Oral statement by Amnesty International to the 48th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights
This statement focuses on the high level of political violence in South Africa in 1991, particularly in the townships in Johannesburg, Natal and Cape Town. Reports of extrajudicial killings and attempted assassinations were frequent; many of these occured during attacks by armed members of the...
Israel and the Occupied Territories: Oral statement to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights on the Israeli Occupied Territories
Two issues of serious concern to Amnesty International are the alleged use of torture or ill-treatment during interrogation and the use of administrative detention without charge or trial. One case of alleged ill- treatment in detention is described (‘Abd al-Ra’uf Ghabin) and a number of official...
Sri Lanka: Summary of human rights concerns during 1991
Scores of people were extrajudicially killed and several hundred “disappeared” in Sri Lanka during 1991. Torture of detainees appeared to be used systematically. Thousands were detained without trial under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and other legislation. In the northeast, the background to...