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Human Rights in United States of America

USA: From Secret Detention to the Death Penalty?
3 July 2009

Tanzanian national Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, who has been detained without charge for five years, two of them at undisclosed locations, is now facing trial in US ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/081/2009

Accountability for US counter-terrorism human rights violations ...
26 June 2009

In the name of countering terrorism, the USA has violated the rights ofindividuals in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantánamo and elsewhere. The humanrights violations committed ...

Appeal For Action      

USA: Abuses at Bagram must be part of wider inquiry | Amnesty ...
24 June 2009

A media report today on interviews with former Bagram detainees is a timely reminder of the continuing need for accountability, transparency and for the human rights ...

Press Release      

Former Bagram detainees allege abuse while in US custody | Amnesty ...
24 June 2009

Former detainees held by the USA at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan havetold the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) how they were subjectedto abuse while in custody ...

Story      

USA: Judge orders Guantánamo detainee released after seven and a ...
24 June 2009

On 22 June 2009, a US federal judge ordered the immediate release of Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak al Ginco (Abdul Rahim al Janko), a 31-year-old Syrian national of Kurdish ...

Document       AMR 51/080/2009

¿ Crímenes de la CIA y complicidad Polaca?
22 June 2009

Document       EUR 37/001/2009

USA: Further Information on Legal concern
16 June 2009

Four of the Uighur detainees who had been held in the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba without charge or trial since 2002 were transferred to Bermuda on ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/077/2009

USA: Human rights must transcend party politics: Amnesty ...
15 June 2009

On 11 June 2009 four Uighur detainees held without charge or trial in Guantánamo Bay since 2002 were transferred to Bermuda. Amnesty International welcomes Bermuda ...

Document       AMR 51/076/2009

USA: Further information on health concern/ legal concern: Ahmed ...
15 June 2009

Ahmed Zuhair was released from Guantánamo and flown to Saudi Arabia on 12 June 2009. He had been held without charge or trial in Guantánamo since June 2002, and ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/075/2009

USA: Further information on Legal concern/Ill-treatment, Mohammed ...
12 June 2009

Mohammed el Gharani was transferred from Guantánamo Bay to Chad on 11 June, almost five months after a US federal judge ordered that he be released. Detained when ...

Urgent Action       AMR 51/074/2009