The"acceptable enemy": Torture in non-political cases

Torture

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 9-14

  Welsh, James ^a   Rayner, Mary ^a  

^a AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 85132569909     PISSN: 10188185     EISSN: 19973322     Source Type: Journal    
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References (24)

1. I. Amnesty International. Torture in the Eighties. London: AI Publications, 1984.
2. United Nations. Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1 984]. In: United Nations. Human Rights: A compilation of International Instruments. New York: UN, 1988.
3. Ibid.
4. Amnesty International. Pakistan. The pattern persists: Torture, deaths in custody, extrajudicial executions and "disappearances" under the PPP government. Al Index: ASA 33/01/95, January 1995.
5. Amnesty International. Pakistan: "Keep your fetters bright and polished" the continued use of bar fetters and cross fetters. Al Index: ASA 33/12/95, May I 995.
6. Breaking with the past? Reports of alleged human rights violations by South African police, 1990-1995. Compiled by the Network of Independent Monitors, the Trauma Centre for Victims of Violence and Torture, and the Independent Board oflnquiry, May 1995.
7. Amnesty International. South Africa: Policing, human rights and the prospects for free and fair elections. AI Index: AFR 53/09/94, February 1994.
8. Amnesty International. Turkey: Torture of 13-year-old in Istanbul, Al Index: EUR 44/18/95, February 1995, p. 2.
9. Amnesty International. Albania-Failure to end police ill-treatment and deaths in custody, Al Index: EUR 11/04/95, p. 3.
10. Ibid., p. 16-7.
11. Ibid., p. 22.
12. Amnesty International. Women in Kenya: Repression and resistance, Al Index: AFR 32/06/95, 24 July 1995.
13. Amnesty International. Kenya: Torture compounded by the denial of medical care. Al Index: AFR 32/18/95, December 1995.
14. Amnesty International. Turkey: A policy of denial-update I, Al Index: EUR 44/24/95, 1995, p. 2.
15. Amnesty International. Brazil: An agenda for human rights, Al Index: AMR 19/15/94, I 994.
16. Amnesty International. Mexico: Torture with Impunity. London: Amnesty International Publications, 1991, p. 6.
17. Amnesty International. Greece: Torture and ill-treatment, Al Index: EUR 25/06/92, June 1992, p. I.
18. Ibid., p. 6.
19. Amnesty International. France: Shootings, killings and alleged ill-treatment by law enforcement officers. Al Index: EUR 21/02/94, October 1994, p. 25-6.
20. Amnesty International. Federal Republic of Germany. Failed by the system: Police ill-treatment of foreigners, AI Index: EUR 23/06/95, p. 16-7, May 1995.
21. Ibid, pp 12-15. Asylum seekers are assigned to a particular district in a particular Land in Germany and need written permission from the authorities before they can leave it.
22. Amnesty International. Romania: Broken commitments to human rights, Al Index: EUR 39/01/95, p. 33, 25-39, May 1995.
23. Amnesty International. Liberia: A new peace agreement-An opportunity to introduce human rights protection. AI Index: AFR 34/01/95, September I 995.
24. Başoğlu M, Paker M, Ozmen E, Taşdemir Ö, Şahin D, Ceylani A, Incesu C, Sarimurat N. Appraisal of self, social environment, and the state authority as a possible mediator of posttraumatic stress disorder in tortured political activists. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 1996; I 05:232-6.