Torture in South Africa : recent documents
At 1.30 am on 5 February 1982, the body of Dr Neil Aggett, a trades union organizer, was found hanging against the grille of his cell at John Vorster Square police headquarters.
Thirty years after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights : the need for an International Convention against Torture
Study undertaken by Hans Thoolen, Executive Secretary of the ICJ, and published as CCIA Background Information 1978/No. 8.
The application of the November 1977 “law of defence and guarantee of public order”
This report covers a mission to El Salvador in July 1978 to study the application of the November 1977 “law of defence and guarantee of public order”.
First and second supplement to the ICJ report on Uruguay of June 17, 1974
The assassination on 19 December, 1974, of Colonel Raman Trabal, the military attaché at the Uruguayan embassy in Paris, has been the occasion for a renewed wave of arrests and a worsening of the condition of detention of political suspects.
Report to the mission to Uruguay
Report of a mission carried out in April/May 1974 by Mr Niall MacDermot, Secretary General of the ICj and Miss Inger Fahlander, research officer of Amnesty International.
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