amnesty international @Country Dossier List 1993 Asia and the Pacific July 1994 AI Index: DOC 32/03/94 Distr: SC INTERNATIONAL SECRETARIAT, 1 EASTON STREET, LONDON WC1X 8DJ, UNITED KINGDOM ASA 11 AFGHANISTAN 1. ANNUAL REPORT ENTRY Date: 1 July 1993 Pages: 2 Afghanistan. In: Amnesty International Report 1993 (POL 10/01/93) 2. AI RESEARCH PAPER/BRIEFING Date: 20 October 1993 Pages: 1 Afghanistan. In: Getting away with murder: political killings and "disappearances" in the 1990s (ACT 33/25/93) 3. MAJOR EXTERNAL DOCUMENT AI Index: ASA 11/01/93 Date: 1 September 1993 Pages: 15 Afghanistan: Political crisis and the refugees There is concern that hundreds of Afghan asylum seekers in Europe, North America and other countries may be subjected to deportation to Afghanistan where they could face serious human rights violations. At least one Afghan asylum seeker has been forcibly returned to Kabul in August 1993. His fate remains unknown. This report examines the current political situation and the groups most at risk if deported. They include educated women, academics and other professionals, members of some ethnic and religious minorities, officials of the former government, and families fleeing the war between rival Mujahideen groups. It also examines the Islamic courts where trials are unfair and sentences include the death penalty and amputation. 4. NEWSLETTER ENTRY Date: 1 May 1993 Pages: 1 Afghanistan: Government soldiers attack Shi'a minority in Kabul. In: Amnesty International Newsletter May 1993 (NWS 21/02/93) Date: 1 December 1993 Pages: 1 July 1994 AI Index: DOC 32/03/94 Distr: SC INTERNATIONAL SECRETARIAT, 1 EASTON STREET, LONDON WC1X 8DJ, UNITED KINGDOM 2 Afghanistan: Asylum-seekers on hunger-strike protest. In: AI Newsletter December 1993 (NWS 21/09/93) 6. BRIEF EXTERNAL DOCUMENT Date: 19 March 1993 Pages: 2 Afghanistan: Amnesty International concerned by wide-scale reports of human rights violations. In: Weekly Update Service 22/93 (NWS 11/22/93) Date: 4 June 1993 Pages: 2 Afghanistan: Widespread human rights violations committed as civil war continues. In: Weekly update service 56/93 (NWS 11/56/93) Date: 26 October 1993 Pages: 2 Afghanistan: Hundreds of Afghan asylum-seekers risk forcible return. In: Amnesty International News Service 132/93 (NWS 11/132/93) Date: 1 November 1993 Pages: 1 Afghanistan: In: Amnesty International's concerns at the 50th session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (IOR 41/38/93) AI Index: DOC 32/03/94 Country Dossier List 1993: Asia and the Pacific 3 ASA 12 AUSTRALIA 1. ANNUAL REPORT ENTRY Date: 1 July 1993 Pages: 1 Australia. In: Amnesty International Report 1993 (POL 10/01/93) 3. MAJOR EXTERNAL DOCUMENT AI Index: ASA 12/01/93 Date: 10 February 1993 Pages: 21 Australia: A criminal justice system weighted against Aboriginal people This report is based on the findings of an AI delegation which visited Australia in April 1992. The delegation visited 24 police lock-ups, juvenile detention centres and prisons and met several federal and state officials and representatives of non-government organizations. The report covers conditions of detention in police custody and prisons, including Alice Springs Prison; incarceration rates; disproportionate criminalization of Aboriginal people; alcohol-related offences; New South Wales Summary Offences Act, 1988; juveniles and the criminal justice system; over- policing of Aboriginal communities; provoked arrests and police harassment. The appendices list detention centres visited by AI and give some information on non-aboriginal deaths in custody. 4. NEWSLETTER ENTRY Date: 1 May 1993 Pages: 1 Australia: A shameful legacy: human rights violations against indigenous peoples (Focus). In: Amnesty International Newsletter May 1993 (NWS 21/01/93) 5. PRESS RELEASE AI Index: ASA 12/03/93 Date: 10 February 1993 Pages: 2 AI News Release: Australia: Justice system weighted against aboriginal people Country Dossier List 1993: Asia and the Pacific AI Index: DOC 32/03/94 4 6. BRIEF EXTERNAL DOCUMENT AI Index: ASA 12/04/93 Date: 1 March 1993 Pages: 2 Australia: Tasmanian law discriminates against homosexuals AI is concerned that sections 122a and 122c of the Tasmanian Criminal Code Act 1924 (amended 1987) criminalize all male homosexual acts between consenting adults in private. Homosexuals imprisoned under this law would be considered by AI to be prisoners of conscience. AI urges the Tasmanian State Government to repeal these sections and to ensure that future legislation will not permit the imprisonment for consensual homosexual acts between adults in private. AI Index: DOC 32/03/94 Country Dossier List 1993: Asia and the Pacific 5 ASA 13 BANGLADESH 1. ANNUAL REPORT ENTRY Date: 1 July 1993 Pages: 2 Bangladesh. In: Amnesty International Report 1993 (POL 10/01/93) 2. AI RESEARCH PAPER/BRIEFING Date: 20 October 1993 Pages: 1 Bangladesh. In: Getting away with murder: political killings and "disappearances" in the 1990s (ACT 33/25/93) 3. MAJOR EXTERNAL DOCUMENT AI Index: ASA 13/01/93 Date: 28 April 1993 Pages: 39 Bangladesh: A summary of human rights concerns This paper details AI's concerns about human rights in Bangladesh since the fall of the Ershad government in December 1990. Topics covered include: administrative detention of prisoners of conscience and political prisoners; possible unfair trials by special tribunals; cases of people convicted under martial law; possible extrajudicial killings by police and military; torture, including rape, in police and military custody; the situation in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, including illegal detention, torture and deaths of tribal people; legal provisions for impunity of human rights violators; and the death penalty. AI Index: ASA 13/11/93 Date: 1 October 1993 Pages: 6 Bangladesh: thirteen-year-old boy raped by police in custody - other children illegally detained, held in shackles or tortured Mohammad Shawkat, a 13-year-old street child, was raped by two police constables on patrol in Dhaka in July 1993, first assaulting him near where he was staying, and again in Azimapur police post. He was released the following morning. He disappeared from hospital after three days' treatment, possibly because he feared retaliation or was threatened by police. The two constables were suspended, but no charges have been brought against them. Street children are regularly picked up by police who extract bribes, beat, humiliate and harass them. Scores are held in detention without trial. In prison, children have been raped by fellow prisoners and by wardens. Some are shackled. Children are also subject to the death penalty. Country Dossier List 1993: Asia and the Pacific AI Index: DOC 32/03/94 6 4. NEWSLETTER ENTRY Date: 1 January 1993 Pages: 1 Bangladesh: Photograph of 14-year-old Saidul Bashar Shoab, shot and seriously wounded by the paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) in March 1992. In: AI Newsletter January 1993 Date: 1 May 1993 Pages: 1 Bangladesh: A shameful legacy: human rights violations against indigenous peoples (Focus). In: Amnesty International Newsletter May 1993 (NWS 21/02/93) Date: 1 November 1993 Pages: 1 Bangladesh: Policemen suspended after streetchild rape (Mohammed Shawkat). In: Amnesty International Newsletter November 1993 (NWS 21/08/93) (includes photograph) 5. PRESS RELEASE AI Index: ASA 13/03/93 Date: 28 April 1993 Pages: 2 AI News Release: Bangladesh: Serious human rights violations continue 6. BRIEF EXTERNAL DOCUMENT Date: 1 April 1993 Pages: 2 Bangladesh: Convention No 107, indigenous and tribal populations. In: The 80th International Labour Conference: AI's concerns relevant to the Committee on Application of Standards and the Committee on Action against Apartheid (IOR 42/01/93) Date: 8 July 1993 Pages: 1 Bangladesh: Amnesty International (AI) appeals for commutation of imminent execution. In: AI news service 77/93 (NWS 11/77/93) AI Index: DOC 32/03/94 Country Dossier List 1993: Asia and the Pacific 7 Date: 30 July 1993 Pages: 1 Bangladesh: Amnesty International condemns Munir Hussain's execution. In: AI News Service 88/93 (NWS 11/88/93) AI Index: ASA 13/12/93 Date: 1 October 1993 Pages: 5 Bangladesh: taking the law in their own hands: the village salish There have been reports over the last two years that local village councils, or salish, have without legal authority tried, convicted and sentenced people to flogging and to death. Cases include the public lashing of Shefali, aged 14, and her mother in Dohar Thana in April 1992. On 1 September 1993 a salish in Kalikapur village, Satkhira district, sentenced a 16-year-old girl, Feroza, to public flogging. She died shortly afterwards. On 10 January 1993 Noorjahan Begum, aged about 21, was stoned to death after her second marriage was declared illegal. Her husband, Motaleb, was also sentenced to stoning, but survived. On 5 May another young woman called Noorjahan was publicly burned in Dokhin Sripur village, Faridpur district. Date: 4 October 1993 Pages: 1 Bangladesh: Public executions and lashing carried out on the direction of local bodies without legal authority. In: Amnesty International News Service 124/93 (NWS 11/124/93) Country Dossier List 1993: Asia and the Pacific AI Index: DOC 32/03/94 8 ASA 14 BHUTAN 1. ANNUAL REPORT ENTRY Date: 1 July 1993 Pages: 1 Bhutan. In: Amnesty International Report 1993 (POL 10/01/93) 6. BRIEF EXTERNAL DOCUMENT Date: 8 December 1993 Pages: 2 Bhutan: Prisoner of conscience sentenced to life imprisonment (Tek Nath Rizal). In: AI News Service 163/93 (NWS 11/163/93) AI Index: DOC 32/03/94 Country Dossier List 1993: Asia and the Pacific 9 ASA 15 BRUNEI DARUSSALAM 1. ANNUAL REPORT ENTRY Date: 1 July 1993 Pages: 1 Brunei Darussalam. In: Amnesty International Report 1993 (POL 10/01/93) Country Dossier List 1993: Asia and the Pacific AI Index: DOC 32/03/94 10 ASA 23 CAMBODIA 1.