1.) Coalition formed to fight death penalty; 2.) UN: "No death penalty for sexual relations"; 3.) AI delegation visits Jamaica, Trinidad; 4.) Japan: Council of ...
On 27 January 2001 armed police shot dead between 22 and 60 opposition demonstrators on Pemba island. This report describes the background to the human rights crisis ...
Prisoners of conscience Juma Duni Haji and Machano Khamis Ali were released on 15 October, after a Zanzibar court dropped the charges of murder against them. Suleiman ...
Most of those charged with the murder of a police officer during a demonstration on Pemba Island have been released. However, prisoners of conscience Juma Duni ...
1. Liberia: Wars have limits: Civilians are tortured and killed as fighting continues; 2. Fiji: elections eclipsed by racism and impunity; 3. Jamaica: Living with ...
The torture and ill-treatment of detainees arrested following the recent violent crack-down on demonstrators in Tanzania reportedly continues. A number of those ...
1 March 2001. AI Index AFR 56/006/2001 - News Service Nr. 43. Tanzania: Amnesty International calls for independent inquiry into Zanzibar killings and torture. ...