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 Demonstration against the ISA in Malaysia

Another Guantánamo in Malaysia? Indefinite detention and risk of torture

22 March 2006

Malaysian human rights groups called on the Prime Minister to apply the same principle to the Kamunting Detention Centre in Malaysia, where detainees are held under th
AI UK held a mass demonstration in Downing Street, calling on the UK Government not to turn a blind eye to torture

UK government’s 'war on terror' policies put people at risk of torture

22 February 2006

UK residents Jamil al-Banna, a Jordanian national, and Bisher al-Rawi, an Iraqi national, were arrested in Gambia in 2002, transferred to a US base in Afghanistan and

Guantánamo: A life sentence of suffering and stigmatization

3 February 2006

The US detention centre at Guantánamo Bay is condemning thousands of people across the world to a life of suffering, torment and stigmatisation.
 Ex-detainees and relatives

Amnesty International / Reprieve Conference

21 December 2005

'The Global Struggle Against Torture: Guantánamo Bay, Bagram and Beyond', 19-21 November 2005

Conference paper: Maher Arar and extraordinary renditions

7 December 2005

While transiting through a New York airport on his way home to Canada in September 2002, Canadian citizen Maher Arar was detained and interrogated by FBI and immigrati

Conference Report

30 November 2005

'The Global Struggle Against Torture: Guantánamo Bay, Bagram and Beyond', 19-21 November 2005

Amnesty International/Reprieve conference: Non-refoulement and outsourcing torture

29 November 2005

I will devote the time I have to the issue of non-refoulement, which in many ways constitutes the backdrop or background, if you will, to the subject of outsourcing to

Guantánamo: UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health denied access

25 November 2005

18 months have passed since I first wrote to the Government of the United States of America requesting a visit to Guantánamo Bay.

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil: The case of Ahmed Abu Ali

21 November 2005

I am going to speak about the case of Ahmed Abu Ali, a US citizen currently on trial in the United States on a variety of terrorism-related charges.