Somalia: 1. Information regarding the mistreatment of Issaq clan members. 2. Information on the mistreatment of Issaq women. 3. Information regarding Isaaqs working at the airport in Somalia. 4. Information on the treatment of Isaaqs sent back to Somalia. 5. Document request
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 December 1989 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | SOM2962 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Somalia: 1. Information regarding the mistreatment of Issaq clan members. 2. Information on the mistreatment of Issaq women. 3. Information regarding Isaaqs working at the airport in Somalia. 4. Information on the treatment of Isaaqs sent back to Somalia. 5. Document request, 1 December 1989, SOM2962, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6abdc4.html [accessed 26 January 2017] |
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1. & 2. Amnesty International documents the arrests and detention without trial of Isaaq clan members whom the government suspects of opposition activities and sympathies. [ Amnesty International Report 1989, (London: Amnesty International Publications, 1989), p.83.] For detailed information please see the attached excerpts from the following documents:
Somalia: Imprisonment of Members of the Isaaq Clan Since Mid-1988, London: Amnesty International Publications, December 1988.
Human Rights Watch and Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, Critique: Review of the Department of State's Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1988, New York, July 1989.
3-5. Various articles which address the issue of human rights in Somalia.
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