Information and Publications
Three new titles were added to Amnesty International's publications list in 1974- 75. In September 1974, to coincide with the first anniversary of the coup that overthrew the government of Salvador Allende in Chile, AI published Chile: an Amnesty International Report in both English and Spanish. This is an 80-page study of the political imprisonment, executions, disappearances, systematic use of torture and abuse of legal procedures by the new military regime.
In April 1975 AI published the 34-page Report of an Amnesty International Mission to Israel and the Syrian Arab Republic to Investigate Allegations of Ill- Treatment and Torture (see chapter on the Campaign for the Abolition of Torture).
In May 1975, AI published a 168-page book comprising the English transla- tions of numbers 28-31 of A Chronicle of Current Events, the samizdat journal of the Soviet movement for the defence of human rights in the USSR. The decision to resume publication of the Chronicle-AI published numbers 16 through 27 in English before the journal was temporarily suppressed by the KGB-was taken by the International Council at its meeting in Denmark in Sep- tember 1974 after the new numbers had appeared in Moscow. The book, which covers the period October 1972 to May 1974, records the arrests, searches, detentions, trials, deaths and confinement in labour camps and sometimes psychiatric hospitals of intellectual, religious and national dissenters in the USSR.
In addition to the new titles, a revised edition of the Amnesty International Report on Torture was published in January 1975. This second edition-the first was published in December 1973 and sold out completely within a year-was updated to include new material on torture. During the year of this annual report, translations of the book appeared in the Netherlands, France, Japan, Portugal and Italy, and Greek and German translations are in preparation. An American edition was also published.
Sales of all Amnesty International reports increased markedly in 1974-75. Indonesia Special, Report on Allegations of Torture in Brazil and the Report of an Inquiry into Allegations of Ill-Treatment in Northern Ireland have all sold out completely, the latter two only shortly after a new reprint. This reflects efforts
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