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Urgent Action Newsletter October 1993
30 September 1993

1. USA: Life or death debate (Gary Graham). 2. Network update. 3. Actions speak louder than words - UAs at the World Conference. 4. UAs making news in West Africa ...

Report       ACT 60/002/1993

Amnesty International News Service 101/93
19 August 1993

1. Brazil: Amnesty International calls for protection of indigenous communities following massacre of Yanomami Indians; 2. Taiwan: Conscript tortured to death in ...

Report       NWS 11/101/1993

Amnesty International News Service 97/93
12 August 1993

1. Taiwan (Republic of China): AI stands by its report that death row prisoners are ill-treated. 2. South Korea: Human rights situation still grim, despite promises ...

Report       NWS 11/097/1993

Taiwan: Army conscript tortured to death
31 July 1993

Army conscript, Chen Shih-wei, died in army custody on 16 July 1993. Compelling evidence indicates that he was imprisoned and tortured to death by officers of a ...

Report       ASA 38/008/1993

UA 237/93 - Taiwan: death penalty / treatment in detention: Chou ...
19 July 1993

Chou Wei-cheng was sentenced to death by Taipei District Court on 12 July 1993 for kidnapping and holding to ransom businessman Hsu Ming-chuan. Two co-defendants ...

Urgent Action       ASA 38/007/1993

Amnesty International News Service 83/93
18 July 1993

1. Taiwan: Cruel, degrading and inhuman treatment of prisoners on death row.

Report       NWS 11/083/1993

Amnesty International News, July 1993. Vol.23, No.4.
30 June 1993

1. Peru: General accuses military of massacre. 2. Sudan: The face of repression. 3. Israel/Occupied Territories: Death in custody follows gas attack. 4. Tunisia ...

Newsletter       NWS 21/004/1993

Taiwan: Ill-treatment on "death row"
30 June 1993

Taiwan (the Republic of China) continues to make active use of the death penalty. According to unofficial sources there were at least 78 executions in 1990, 59 ...

Report       ASA 38/002/1993

Death penalty news June 1993
31 May 1993

1. Hong Kong and the Gambia abolish death penalty for all crimes. 2. Italy: Moves towards total abolition. 3. USA: Recent developments. 4. Uganda: Nine prisoners ...

Newsletter       ACT 53/002/1993

Further information on EXTRA 30/93 (ASA 38/03/93, 17 March) ...
29 March 1993

Former gang member Liu Huan-jong was executed on 23 March 1993. After his execution his heart and corneas were removed, following his reported wish to donate these ...

Urgent Action       ASA 38/004/1993