Many non-democratic and fundamentalist religious regimes will not permit ideological or political dissent. In 1984 Amnesty International reported that political prisoners are being held in the following countries: [Africa] Algeria, Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Rep, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Djibouti, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Libya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome-Principe, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Togo, Tunisia, Uganda, Zaire, Zambia, Zimbabwe. [America] Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, El Salvador, Grenada, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, USA, Uruguay. [Asia] Afghanistan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Brunei, Burma, China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kampuchea, Korea PDR, Korea Rep, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Viet Nam, Yemen DR. [Europe] Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, France, German DR, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, USSR, UK, Yugoslavia.