The World - News from Aug. 21, 1987
The International Commission of Jurists deplored alleged political repression in Paraguay and the killing of more than 200 prisoners by Peruvian armed forces in June of last year. In a report entitled “Human Rights in the World,” the private, Geneva-based group also criticized Bulgaria’s campaign to prevent its Turkish minority from using its own language and the sentencing by a Prague court in March of five members of the Jazz Section, a banned Czechoslovak dissident group. The commission also criticized the government of Singapore for last May’s detention of 16 church community leaders.
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