This paper updates AI's concerns about the harvesting of organs from executed prisoners for use in organ transplants and the possible role of members of the medical ...
AI has for some time been concerned about the removal of organs from prisoners executed in Taiwan for use in transplants. The first such case occurred in December ...
On 2 March 1991 a cabinet committee announced that Article 100 of the Criminal Code, which provides for imprisonment of people convicted of anti- state activities ...
Amnesty International is concerned by the continued use of executed prisoners as a source of organs for transplantation in Taiwan. Legislation was introduced in ...
This paper contains seven appeal cases for writers and journalists who have been threatened, imprisoned or even killed because of their professional activities. ...
Executions remain at a high level in Taiwan: in 1990 a record 78 people were executed, compared to 69 in 1989. The Government of Taiwan justifies the retention ...
EXTERNAL (for general distribution)AI Index: ASA 38/07/91. Distr: UA/SC. PLEASE ORGANIZE UP TO 20 APPEALS PER SECTION. UA 167/91Arrests14 May 1991. ...
According to a report published in the China Post of 17 April 1991, death row prisoner Huang Chia-ching was executed and his body removed to hospital after the ...