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Category: Torture and Terror

  • UK authorities must disclose information

    Amnesty International has called on the government of the UK to give the lawyers for Binyam Mohamed, a former UK resident imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay, information which it holds and which might help him to show that he has been a victim of torture and other ill-treatment in the US-led program of renditions and secret detention.

  • Hamdan convicted at Guantanamo

    Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni national, has been convicted by a panel of six US military officers of "providing material support for terrorism", but acquitted of "conspiracy".

  • Judge clears way for first military commission

    In its offshore prison camp in Guantánamo Bay, the US is about to open a new chapter in its unlawful treatment of detainees in the "war on terror".

  • Omar Khadr must be repatriated to Canada

    Reacting to the release of a video on 15 July publicly showing Canadian citizen Omar Khadr being questioned at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Amnesty International called for Khadr to be repatriated to Canada immediately.

  • Guantánamo military commission hearings resume

    Five Guantánamo detainees accused of involvement in the attacks of 11 September 2001 in the USA are due to appear in front of a military judge this week, as pre-trial hearings in the case resume. Amnesty International will have an observer at the proceedings.

  • Sami Al Hajj thanks Amnesty International members

    We wish to thank everyone who wrote a letter to Sami Al Hajj, the 39-year-old Sudanese Al Jazeera cameraman who had been held in US custody since December 2001. We recently forwarded to him 10,000 Amnesty International members' letters, and he has replied with the following message...

  • Prohibition of torture upheld in Slovakia

    Amnesty International welcomes the decision by the Slovak Constitutional Court on 26 June 2008 in the case of Mustapha Labsi, which reaffirms the absolute duty on the authorities not to send any person to any place where they face a real risk of torture or other ill-treatment, and underscores the obligation of Slovakia not to rely on diplomatic assurances.

  • Day in Support of Victims of Torture

    Amnesty International called on all states to eradicate the scourge of torture and all other forms of cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

  • Europe in denial over role in US rendition

    Amnesty International warns that not a single measure has been taken to prevent further European involvement in rendition and secret detention, and called for independent investigations to be initiated urgently.

  • Tunisia: Human rights lip service

    The Tunisian government is misleading the world as it conveys a positive image of the human rights situation in the country while abuses by its security forces continue unabated and are committed with impunity, Amnesty International revealed in a new report on 23 June 2008.

  • Child “enemy combatants” face Guantánamo hearings

    Military commission pre-trial hearings at Guantanamo were set to resume on 19 June 2008 in the cases of Mohammed Jawad and Omar Khadr; both were juveniles when detained by the US military in Afghanistan in 2002.

  • US Supreme Court decision welcomed

    Reacting to the US Supreme Court ruling recognising the right of foreign nationals detained in Guantánamo Bay to challenge their detention in US civilian courts on, Amnesty International said the decision was an "essential step forward towards the restoration of the rule of law."

  • Vote to extend pre-charge detention in the UK

    The vote by UK Members of Parliament on 11 June 2008 to extend yet further the maximum period of pre-charge detention for terror suspects is a dangerous and disappointing development.

  • Amnesty International Report 2008

    Amnesty International today challenged world leaders to re-commit themselves to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  • 60 years of Human Rights failures

    Amnesty International's Report 2008 was launched on Wednesday 28 May. The report looks back on key events in 2007 and ahead to major human rights challenges for 2008, which is the 60th anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  • Paliamentarians deliver close Guantánamo message

    Two European parliamentarians will meet with key U.S. government officials from Wednesday, May 14 through Friday, May 16, 2008 to deliver Amnesty International's framework for ending illegal U.S. detentions. This petition has been signed by over 1,200 parliamentarians from 30 countries.

  • Release or fair trials for all remaining Guantanamo detainees

    As nine more detainees were freed from Guantanamo, Amnesty International reiterated that the Guantanamo detentions are a travesty of justice.

  • Sami Al Hajj has been released from Guantanamo

    Sami Al Hajj, the 39-year-old Sudanese Al Jazeera cameraman who had been held in US custody since December 2001, has finally been transferred back to Sudan from Guantanamo.

  • Canada must pursue Omar Khadr’s repatriation

    The government of Canada must urgently reconsider its position that for it to seek Omar Khadr's repatriation from Guantánamo would be "premature". This young Canadian national has been in US military custody since he was 15 years old. He is now 21. During this time his rights have been systematically violated, and US assurances about its commitment to the rule of law have rung increasingly hollow. Far from being premature, vigorous action by Canada is long overdue.

  • Time to abandon UK government’s policy of ‘deportation with assurances’

    On 9 April 2008 the Court of Appeal of England and Wales gave its judgment in two key cases concerning the UK government’s policy of 'deportation with assurances': that of a Jordanian national, Abu Qatada, and those of two Libyan nationals, referred to for the purposes of legal proceedings in the UK as 'DD' and 'AS'. In both cases, although on different grounds, the Court of Appeal ruled that the UK could not lawfully proceed with the deportations.

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