CRO AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL AGAINST HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN US

ZAGREB, Nov 20 (Hina) - Amnesty International Croatia (AIH) has joined a campaign against human rights violations in the United States, it was reported at a press conference at the AIH HQ in Zagreb on Friday. Amnesty International (AI) commenced with its first international campaign against human rights violations in the US on October 6. The campaign will last until July 1999, and it will include about one million AI members from around 150 countries. The specific aspects of human rights violations which are being stressed are: police brutality, capital punishment, inhumane prison conditions, rejection to ratify international human rights agreements, the policy towards asylum seekers and the transfer of US weapons that is, its role in human rights violations. The AIH will focus its campaign on lobbying against capital punishment for juvenile delinquents in the US and police brutality and for the improvement of prison conditions, announced Ines Bulic, the AIH's co-ordinator for the campaign. The AIH will on November 25 hold a peaceful protest in front of the US Embassy in Zagreb. The demonstrators will on that day carry a placard with the names of 70 juvenile delinquents who have been sentenced to death and are awaiting their execution. (hina) jn ab/rml