Page 10 University Daily Kansan, September 26. 1983 Amnesty leader remonstrates world decay of human rights By DAVE BOJARSKI Staff Represent Staff Reporter "The basic human rights are out of the reach of international diplomacy," the executive director of Amnesty International, USA told about 75 people Friday night in Alderson Auditorium in the Kansas Union. Although quiet in conversation, John Co 'Jack" Heckley, 45, a former Roman Catholic priest, gave fire and brimstorm attacks to the church human rights situation in the world. Healy said that Amnesty was interested in any violations of human rights by countries holding "prisoners of conscience." The prisoners, he said, are being held for prison ranging from joining labor union forces, passively protesting government policy The prisoners are often tortured or even killed before they have a trial, he Amnesty's policy is to aid any individual that is being held for political reasons as long as the person was convicted of abetted violence in the alleged crime. About half of the 154 governments of the United Nations are alleged to be holding prisoners of conscience. Torture is documented in 60 of the nations Healey said that in its most recent report, covering 1981-82, Amnesty cited 20 more countries that violated human rights. For documentation of the violations, Healy said, "We have spies such as doctors and priests who actually witness the violations." Nationally, Amnesty International works to abolish the death penalty capital punishment in all forms. Healey said that many countries followed U.S. policy and that the United States could not condemn other nations for human rights violations when the death penalty was used here to deter crime. "Violence will beget violence," he said. Healed relaxed the crowd with a story by the deceased comedian John Belushi that illustrated the problem with the rationale of the death penalty. The story spoke of hanging a convicted man in a store to deter other shoplifters. Healey said that from all the evidence Amnesty had seen, the use of capital punishment would not suppress violent crime in the United States. It is "a very quick slide from the death penalty to Khomeini," he said. Amnesty could not function if it were not for local groups like Lawrence/KU Chapter 172, which sponsored Healey's lecture. The Lawrence/KU chapter has 15 to 20 members and is headed by Mitch Kaufman, 22, a mechanical engineering student from Moundridge. The chapter has adopted two prisoners of conscience. 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The report, prepared by a Senate subcommittee on refuge and immigration policy, warned that desperate humanitarian needs — "refugee and displaced persons, political violence, hunger and medical problems — must be dealt with" (Santos 2014). Only complicate, but perhaps undermine, efforts to achieve peace and stability in the region." The staff proposes the United States sponsor the study through the U.S. embassy in El Salvador or in another country in the cooperation of the embassy. The State Department announced this week it would offer political refugee status to as many as 60 former Salvadoran prisoners and their families, who were recently arrested by the El Salvador government. THE REPORT noted it appeared there was no government-sanctioned program in El Salvador aimed at Salvadoran refugees who are returned home and no document is filed to show what eventually happens. The findings and recommendations were based on a 10-day trip to El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala by two ton staff members IN A SECTION devoted to illegal immigrants in the United States, the report said some groups had called for "extended voluntary departure status" for them until hostilities subsided. The Immigration and Naturalization Service has not granted that status, arguing, according to report "that there is no evidence of persecution of those who are sent back, that there are other countries of first asylum available and that most Salvadorans here in the United States are economic migrants without valid claims of persecution." 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