1. Germany: Police brutality on the increase. 2. India: Concern grows over deaths in custody. 3. Sierra Leone: Schoolchildren abducted by rebel forces. 4. Focus ...
1. Amnesty International sends research team to the Republic of Guinea. 2. Brazil: First visit by Amnesty International's Secretary General to urge Brazilian Government ...
1. Sierra Leone: Serious deterioration in human rights is being ignored. 2. India: Killings by security forces in Jammu and Kashmir must be investigated.
1. Israel and the Occupied Territories: Human rights under threat from both sides; 2. Afghanistan: International community ignores killing and torture of civilians ...
Lieutenant-Colonel Chernor Deen, aged 55, formerly commander of the 2nd Battalion of the Republic of Sierra Leone Military Force, has been sentenced to death by ...
Twelve soldiers, including Amara Conteh, have been executed by firing squad on 11 and 12 November 1994. All had been tried by a court martial, although details ...
Amara Conteh, a 77-year-old warrant officer, was sentenced to death by a court martial in Freetown on 7 September 1994. He was sentenced by a civilian judge after ...
About 26 people, most of whom are believed to be former government ministers and others associated with the former government, are reported to have been arrested ...
According to official figures, 240 of the 264 political detainees have been released since July 1993. Among the few still held without trial is law student Sahid ...
1. North Korea: Evidence of systematic abuses emerges. 2. Tunisia: Deaths in custody linked to torture. 3. The former USSR: Homosexual sex decriminalized in three ...
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