Thousands of Kuwaiti and third-country nationals were transferred from Kuwait to Iraq by Iraqi forces during the occupation of Kuwait from 2 August 1990 to 26 February ...
The above people were arrested in August as part of a wider crackdown in the the aftermath of the Gulf War, targeting sectors traditionally thought to be loyal ...
1. Iraq: Gulf war detainees held as prisoners of conscience. 2. Iraq: Scores of prominent Sunni Arabs arrested. 3. Turkey: Possible police involvement in killings ...
Presented here are the five oral statements made by Amnesty International (AI) in August 1993 in Geneva. Under item 6 AI described the practice of political killings ...
Despite the increased importance of human rights on the political agenda of governments throughout the world, political killings and "disappearances" continue to ...
This report examines the extensive use of "disappearances" and extrajudicial executions in Iraq as a means of suppressing all forms of internal dissent, and Amnesty ...
This chapter of a forthcoming major AI report, together with Chapter G-2, shows how the UN and other intergovernmental organizations approach the problem of " ...
1. Egypt: Grave human rights abuses; 2. Togo: Extrajudicial executions; 3. Guatemala: Military accused of torturing secret detainees; 4. Greece: Government critics ...
1. Tadzhikistan: The tragedy the world ignores. 2. Chad: The nightmare continues. 3. Bosnia-Herzegovina: Sandzak Muslims abducted from Serbian- held areas. 4. Turkey ...
Grand Ayatollah Abu al-Qassem al-Kho'i, Shi'a Islam's most senior cleric, was taken into custody on 20 March 1991 following an armed raid on his residence in the ...
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