"Police Abuse and Detention of Street Children in Kenya Yodon Thonden, Human
Rights Watch Children's Rights ... International and Kenyan Standards The
conduct of police regarding the use of force is prescribed under international law
by ..."
"Children in Confinement in Colorado Dorothy Davidson, Lois Whitman, Michael
McClintock, Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Project. in the available
programmes of physical ... Every juvenile has a right to be examined by a
physician immediately upon admission to a detention facility, for the purpose of
recording any evidence of prior ill-treatment and identifying any physical or
mental condition requiring medical attention. 51. T ..."
"At this mention of the founding father of the Turkish Republic, Altan nodded
soberly. "Ah, yes," he said. "Ataturk." His expression clearly conveyed that when it
came to this particular subject, even he would exercise particular caution in what
he wrote. Some writers try to avoid the problem by referring, for example, to "
people full of metal on their shoulders," instead of using the word generals. Pinar
Kur described how her edito ..."
State of flux Human rights in Turkey : December 1987 update (A Helsinki Watch report) by LoisWhitman, Jeri Laber, Helsinki Watch Staff Paperback, 159 Pages, Published 1987 by Helsinki Watch Committee ISBN-13: 978-0-938579-68-7, ISBN: 0-938579-68-1
"... severely ill during his interrogation, and was taken to the state hospital; he was
then to be transferred to Ankara, but died on route on November l2, l983.
Cumhuriyet, October 30, 1986. q Three policemen were tried in November l986
for torturing Bek- tas Ayyildiz, owner of the Ayyildiz Publishing House. Ayyildiz
said he was taken to the police station by officers Lutfi Denizli, Naci Ugur and
Bekir Bostanci, after they found so ..."
"Child Soldiers in Liberia Janet Fleischman, Human Rights Watch (Organization)
Lois Whitman. Acknowledgments This report is based largely on a Human Rights
Watch fact-finding mission to Liberia in April 1994. The participants, and the
authors of this report, were Janet Fleischman, the Washington representative of
Human Rights Watch/Africa, and Lois Whitman, the director of the Human Rights
Watch Children's Rights Project. Human Righ ..."
"The seven deputies are Mehmet Ali Eren, Kenan Sonmez and Ismail Hakki Onal
from Istanbul, Ahmet Turk and Adnan Ekmen from Mardin, Salik Sumer from
Diyarbakir, and Mahmut Alinak from Kars. A similar incident took place in January
1 989, when SHP Member of Parliament Ibrahim Aksoy made a speech at a
Turkey- European Joint Parliamentary Commission meeting in Strasbourg saying
that Kurds exist and should be treated as a people. He call ..."
Destroying ethnic identity(1st Edition) The Kurds of Turkey (A Helsinki Watch report) by Jeri Laber, LoisWhitman Paperback, 73 Pages, Published 1988 by U.S. Helsinki Watch Committee ISBN-13: 978-0-938579-41-0, ISBN: 0-938579-41-X
"... Elizabeth Holtzman*, Lawrence Hughes, Susan Jacoby*, Tamar Jacoby, Anne
Johnson*, Philip M. Kaiser, Russell Karp*, Stephen Kass*, ... Leon Lipson,
Richard Maass, Elizabeth McCormack, Robert McKay, Nancy Meiselas*, Theodor
Meron*, Arthur Miller, Toni Morrison*, ... Jerome Wiesner, Roger Wilkins * Board
Member Staff Jeri Laber, Executive Director; Catherine A. Fitzpatrick, Research
Director;"
"Paul Chevigny, Lois Whitman, Bell Gale Chevigny. 3. In January 1983, C, who
was pressing ... Laing ordered one of the men, G, to stand against a wall and
then shot him in the ear with an M-16. Shots were fired to clear the streets and the
..."
"Minister Rattray pointed out, however, that currently Jamaica lacks the
infrastructure that would enable judges and ... the caption "A first in Jamaica," the
press reported that on February 16, 1990, "a community service order was made .
.. for the ..."
"... son of Dimitrios ; ( 3 ) Stavros Anastasiadis , son of Ioannis ; ( 4 ) Konstandinos
seltsas , son of Dimitrios ; ( 5 ) Konstandinos Gotsis , son of Atanasios ; ( 6 )
Anastasios Bule , son of Leonidas ; ( 7 ) Stavros Sovislis , son of Ioannis , all of
whom ..."
"The largest part of the joint command was the Republican or Dniester guard,
which began to be formed in 1988 from Workers Detachments for Cooperation
with the Militia (ROSM),43 and were activated on the order of Igor' Smirnov on
September 27, 1991. Guardsmen are fulltime, paid soldiers, and are
recognizable by the red head- and left arm-bands they wear; some also wear
Soviet Army uniforms. On January 9, 1992, DMR authorities report ..."
"... Law for such offenses as "criticizing" or "insulting" the president, public officers,
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk or the military; printing "anti-military propaganda;" ...
Turkish authorities have confiscated and banned dozens of issues of small left-
wing or pro-Kurdish journals and raided editorial offices. ... His publisher, Hikmet
Kocak ..."
"The Greeks of Turkey Lois Whitman, Helsinki Watch (Organization : U.S.). M. ,M .'
' omoui. ua. QUIT. Sfforte Mre no* bfini* naile to Imnwdintely repair lon« of the
tanage to nuOre pooilttlp opening of tl>««e eclisele by the end of thli month. TO
that effect « preliminary Aid of ?L f$0,OOC h«« ertn alloorited to the Conroinity by
t^e Turkleh nnthoritlei. Sped*! (ippropriAtione »re ftlio •xpecttd for the repair of
diunagtA reltgioue ..."
"Five West Belfast teenagers (known as the "Beechmount Five") are now on
remand in Crumlin Road Prison, charged with the murder of Officer Stephen
Gillespie in an IRA rocket attack on May 1, 1991 (the attack about which Damien
Austin was questioned). Two of these youths are seventeen years old — Kevin
Mulholland and Lawrence Hillick. All were interrogated for seven days in
Castlereagh Interrogation Centre. All made statements implic ..."
Nothing Unusual The Torture of Children in Turkey by LoisWhitman Paperback, 77 Pages, Published 1992 by Human Rights Watch ISBN-13: 978-1-56432-052-0, ISBN: 1-56432-052-9
"They attributed this change to the presence of outside observers, including
Professor Eric Siesby, the head of the Danish Helsinki Committee, and Bjorn
Cato Funnemark, the General Secretary of the Norwegian Helsinki Committee.
Equal Rights International and National Guarantees: The Turkish minority in 30."
"op cit; The 60,000-70,000 figure is supplied by the Roma Parliament (Helsinki
Watch interview, January 6, 1993); 20,000-30,000 is by David Crowe op. cit. at
298 and Janos Szonyi, "A ciganyok sorsa a fasizmus evei alatt," (The fate of the
Gypsies during the fascist years,") at 53-57 in Laszlo Szego op, cit. The 5,000
figure is by Laszlo Karsai, A Ciganykerdes Magyarorszagon 1919-1945 (Ut a
cigany Holocausthoz), (The Gypsy question i ..."