‘Torture not limited by geography '
PA Wellington Human rights activists have been tortured and killed in El Salvador and Guatemala, confined to corrective labour camps or psychiatric hospitals in the Soviet Union, and abducted or imprisoned in other countries, according to the Amnesty International Report 1984. The New Zealand section of Amnesty International said that the report summarised the efforts of Amnesty to stop those abuses, torture, and the death penalty.'
The 1984 report contained accounts of human rights violations in all regions of the world, showing that such abuses, and the campaign against them, were not limited to any political or geographic group, it said. Its pages revealed thousands of killings by security forces during an “anticrime” campaign in Indonesia, the imprisonment of people in the German Democratic Republic for trying to leave the country, systematic torture in Turkey, detention without trial in all parts of Lebanon and many other violations of human rights.
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Press, 25 October 1984, Page 12
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