26 June 2008
To mark the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, Amnesty International members and supporters are taking action around the world.
26 June 2008
Don’t let arguments for torture go unchallenged. Watch this video where former US President Carter, the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture and others raise their voices against torture and other ill-treatment
25 June 2008
It is time for the Tunisian authorities to live up to their lofty rhetoric on human rights.
24 June 2008
Abu Omar was rendered by US agents, via Germany, to Egypt, where he was held
for nearly four years, including 14 months in secret detention.
24 June 2008
As France takes over the Presidency of the EU in July 2008, call on the French President to ensure that all EU governments cooperate to end rendition and secret detention.
24 June 2008
In May 2008, Manfred Nowak spoke to Amnesty International about the role of European states in the US-led programmes of rendition and secret detention.
24 June 2008
European states reject responsibility to admit or investigate complicity in US-led renditions and secret detention.
23 June 2008
Abuses by security forces in Tunisia go unpunished, despite lip service to human rights by the government.
18 June 2008
On the 12 June 2008 the US Supreme Court recognized, in the case of
Boumediene v.Bush, the right of those detained at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba
to challenge their detention in US civilian courts.
16 June 2008
Murat Kurnaz was detained in Afghanistan and Guantánamo without charge or trial for nearly five years.
