Mr. President,

On the occasion of your meeting on September 23 with Nigerian head of state General Abdulsalami Abubakar, I am writing on behalf of Human Rights Watch to raise our concerns with you about the current situation in Nigeria, and to ask you to use the influence of the U.S. to improve respect for human rights in that country.

(New York) - Human Rights Watch today urged the United States government to publicly support and promote the extradition of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet to Spain.

(New York)- Human Rights Watch today criticized the U.S. government for failing to support international efforts to extradite Augusto Pinochet to Spain.

It also urged the White House to declassify documents that could assist in the prosecution of the ex-Chilean dictator.

The Honorable Janet Reno  
Attorney General of the United States  
U.S. Department of Justice  
950 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W., Room 4545  
Washington, D.C. 20530-0001  
 
Dear Madame Attorney General:  

U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno should use her presence in Lima next week to insist that Peru fully restore independence of the judiciary, Human Rights Watch said today.

The National Security Archive, Center for National Security Studies and Human Rights Watch hailed today's release of more than 20,000 pages of U.S. documents on Chile.

Dear President Clinton,