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been lumged afterwards to make it appear that thecause of death was formal execution. More than 200detailed allegations of torture have been received, insome cases Su p po rt ed hy photographs and medicalreports. (January 1982)

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The acts on human rights are vital. The regularAmnesty International ewsletter is thoroughlyresearched and written without any political bias.It covers the latest political arrests and trials. Itpresents reliable reports of torture and executions.It speaks for the victims, everywhere.

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Secret police have been accused of subjecting a humanrights activist and an economist to torture by electricshock. During one torture session, according to oneor the victims, the shocks were so powerful that hebegan to have heart trouble --and one of his torturershad to give external heart massage until he recovered.The torture then resumed. (March 1982)

CENTRAL AFRICAN EMPIRE

Hundreds of school children have been arrested andsubjected to merciless treatment. Between 50 and 100have been killed in prison. Sonic were bayonetted orbeaten to death with sticks and whips. One witnesscounted the bodies of 62 dead children. (June 1979)

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EXECUTIONSMost of the 3,000 people known to have been executedthroughout the world in 1981 lost their lives forpolitically motivated offences. Frequently the deathpenalty was passed after proceedings that did notconform to the minimum standard of a fair trial.(April 1982)

AFGHANISTAN

An Al mission met officials and prisoners in Kabuland confirmed abuses previously reported. It askedthe government for details on hundreds of prisonerssaid to be in custody. (April 1980)

POLAND

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A t least 1 1 people have been killed and more than5000 held in internment camps since martial lawwas declared, according to official figures. Many arereported to be held in cold, overcrowded conditionsand fears have been expressed for their health andsafety. (February 1982)

EL SALVADOR

In the wake of the assassination of Archbishop OscarRomero, lives of other human rights activists in thecountry were at risk as the government imposed astate or siege, news censorship and sent troops intoaction in rural areas. (May 1980)

CZECHOSLOVAKIA

In the most severe crackdown on dissenters since 1971,some 30 signatories and supporters of the unofficialhuman rights movement Charter 77 and members ofthe Committee for the Defence of the Unjustly Per-secuted have been arrested on suspicion of engagingin subversion. Amnesty International believes thatthey are being prosecuted for the non-violent exerciseof their right to freedom of expression and has adoptedthem as prisoners of conscience. (July 1981)

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SOVIET UNION

More than 150 people peacefully exercising theirrights have been arrested or tried, sent to prison orexile or forcibly confined to psychiatric hospitalsin the past nine months. (August 1980)

COLOMBIA

One of the principal lawyers defending political prison-ers has been shot dead in the capital, Bogota, afterreceiving telephoned death threats. His murder isone of the most recent in a series of killings andabductions of political opposition figures and tradeUnionists which Colombian security officials haveattributed to "death squads". (May 1982)

SYRIA

Security forces are reported to have killed severalhundred people in the town of Hama on the night of23 April 1981. According to reports received byAmnesty International, units of the Syrian SpecialForces sealed off parts of Hama and carried outhouse-to-house searches. People were said to havebeen dragged from their homes, lined up in the streetand shot. (September 1981)

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IRAQ

Reports point to political suspects being poisoned incustody. Medical examinations have revealed victimssuffering from doses of thallium—a rat poison thatcan lead to a slow and painful death. (October 1980)

hijacked in March 1981 — bringing the total numberof arrests in the political field since the beginning ofthe year to well over 1,000. (May 1981)

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

In a new report Amnesty International calls for anindependent commission of inquiry into the influenceof FBI activities on the criminal justice system. Afterexamining thousands of pages of official transcriptsand documents, the organization says the FBI wasresponsible for false evidence, harassment and failureto disclose information in cases of activists frommilitant groups. (November 1981)

PAKISTAN

Hundreds of members of political parties and their sympathizers are reported to have been arrested in Pakistan since a Pakistan International Airlines jet was

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Political prisoners are reported to have died under torture recently. Some of the victims are said to have

WET NAM

The government has said it is still holding 20,000prisoners in "re-education" camps set up in 1975.In published correspondence with authorities in Hanoi,Al called for an end to this system of detention with-out trial. (July 1981)

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"As for the AmnestyInternational contentionthat the AfghanistanGovernment had jailed12,000 people since therevolution, Mr ,4min saidthat the London-basedgroup had a fertileimagination and is spoon-fed by the propagandacentres of Radio Peking,the BBC, the Voice ofAmerica, Islamabad andTeheran' ".from an Agence FrancePresse interview withformer AfghanistanPresident Hafizullah Amin,1979.

"Even during its earlyyears Amnesty Interna-tional was in the keep ofthe imperialist secretservices, first and foremostby the Americans, whoseinterests it serves. . . .sabotage against the USSR,including sending agentsand hostile literature, is animportant part of AtnnestyInternational's activity."from the Soviet newspaperlzvestiva, 1980.

'With total impudence and

insolence, ,4mnesty Inter-national. . . . whosepolitical affiliation is wellknown, declares cynicallythat it is the Governmentof Guatemala that 'directsa program of murders andtortures established by thegovernment'. The ignor-ance of the members ofthis organization which isheaded by communists isobvious. . . . it does noteven try to hide its trueSoviet character. . . ."from the office of thePublic Relations Directorof the President ofGuatemala, 1980.

ractical in r ati nEach month the Amnesty International Newsletter tells readers

how they can give practical help to prisoners of conscience and tof.' those threatened with torture or execution. Every issue includes

appeals with careful instructions for people to send letters urging

'v respect for the victims' rights.

One prisoner, Julio de Pena Valdez, a trade union leader, has recalled the effect of the

hundreds of letters and cards he received in prison. Seized in mass arrests in the Dominican

Republic in 1975, he was being held naked in an underground cell.

"When the first two hundred letters came the guards gave me back my clothes.

Then the next two hundred letters came and the prison director came to see me.

When the next pile of letters arrived, the director got in touch with his superior.

The letters kept coming and coming: three thousand of them. The President was

informed. The letters still kept arriving and the President called the prison and told

them to let me go. After I was released the President called me to his office for a

man to man talk. He said: 'How is it that a trade union leader like you has so many

friends all over the world?' He showed me an enormous box full of letters he had

received and, when we parted, he gave them to me. 1 still have them."