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News Releases 1974/75
1974
6 June. Amnesty appeals to Bulgaria not to execute former UN staff member. 16 June. Joint Amnesty-ICJ report says political suspects in Uruguay are systematically tortured because of absence of legal protection./Amnistía Internacional y la Comisión Internacional de Juristas informan sobre la tortura en Uruguay de sospechos políticos quo carecen de proteción legal.
21 June. New wave of arrests, disappearances and torture in Brazil makes mockery of "economic miracle", Amnesty International says.
12 July. Amnesty International urges South Korea to commute death
sentences.
24 July. Amnesty International asks new Greek leader to free political prisoners and set up an inquiry into torture practices.
1 August. Amnesty International appeals to Chile to commute death
sentences.
1 August.Amnesty International seeks urgent inquiry into reported deaths on Con Son of 14- including two children-of Vietnamese deported from Hong Kong.
13 August. Amnesty shock at confirmation of Bulgarian's death sentence. 18 August. Amnesty asks Bahrein to free workers detained two months. without charge; release also sought for nine trade unionists in Jordan.
5 September. Amnesty International Annual Report calls for UN commission- er for human rights.
8 September. Amnesty International Council meeting acts on South Korea, GDR, Uruguay, Philippines and Vietnam; elects ex-Turkish prisoner of conscience to executive; and makes new moves on torture and capital punishment.
10 Swptember. Major Amnesty International report documents repression of human rights by junta in Chile./Un sustancial informe de Amnistía Internacional documenta la represión de los derechos humanos ejercida por la junta chilena. 17 September. Amnesty International says Naxalite prisoners in India held without trial in grossly overcrowded prisons.
8 October. Statement by Amnesty International on award of 1974 Nobel Peace Prize to its recently-retired chairman, Sean MacBride.