1. Nigeria: Contempt for human rights continues; 2. Ecuador: Prisoners of conscience freed; 3. News in brief; 4. Albania: Post-election protesters attacked by police ...
On 29 May 1996 a Kuwaiti Islamic family court declared "Robert" Hussein Qambar 'Ali, a convert to Christianity, an apostate. This is the first legal case of its ...
1. Brazil: Human rights placed in the spotlight; 2. United States of America (Georgia): Olympic host state is fifth highest for executions; 3. Burundi: Death toll ...
This report describes positive developments in the abolition of the death penalty worldwide, including the abolition of the death penalty in Spain, Mauritius and ...
On 24 June 1996, the Court of Cassation upheld the death sentence passed on a captain in the Kuwaiti police force convicted of drowning a Syrian woman with whom ...
1. Kuwait: Time to face up to past wrongs; 2. Burundi: International community turns a blind eye as killings continue throughout the country; 3. Singapore: Jehovah's ...
News Service 28/96. AI INDEX: MDE 17 \04 \96. EMBARGOED UNTIL 0001 HRS GMT 22 FEBRUARY 1996. KUWAIT: FIVE YEARS OF IMPUNITY SINCE THE WITHDRAWAL OF IRAQI FORCES ...