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In an executive order signed on 22 January 2009, President Obama ordered the Guantánamo detention centre closed “as soon as practicable” and no later than 22 January 2010.
Two Task Forces established by executive order to review the USA’s interrogation and detention policies are reported to be delaying their findings to the President.
Tear it Down - Amnesty International Every day, President Obama reads ten hand-picked letters chosen because they can offer him a glimpse of what's on people's minds. With that in mind, Amnesty International has compiled powerful letters written by 10 influential thinkers – from an exiled poet to a former military interrogator to an esteemed actor and act...ivist – that boldly make the case against torture. Send one to President Obama today!
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Amnesty International launched a video to coincide with the launch of its 100 day report, assessing President Obama's record in terms of US counter terrorism policies.
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100 days after taking office, President Obama's record in terms of US counter terrorism policies has been assessed in a new Amnesty International report.
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Check out Amnesty International's new report on President Obama's first 100 days in office - http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updat
Tear it Down - Amnesty International
Amnesty International's Secretary General Irene Khan has called President Barack Obama’s executive order to close the Guantánamo detention facility "a major step forward" and a "welcome sign that the new administration is willing to right the wrongs of the past."
Read the official press release from Amnesty Internationa...l:
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updat
Read the NY Times article on the Executive order passed by President Obama:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/22/us/pol
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Amnesty International has a checklist for Barack Obama's first 100 days in office. Visit www.obama100days.org and support the challenge for Obama to counter terror with justice.
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Ahead of his inauguration, Amnesty International’s launched a new website urging the President-elect to take concrete steps to demonstrate his commitment to international human rights standards, including in the context of countering terrorism.
Visit the website, read Amnesty International's checklist, sign the petition... and support the challenge for Obama to counter terror with justice.
http://obama100days.amnesty.org/index.ht
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Join Amnesty International and the Solicitors' International Human Rights Group in marking the International Day for the Disappeared by demonstrating outside the Pakistan High Commission in London on August 30, 2008
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Salim Hamdan, a Yemini national was charged yesterday with one count of 'providing material support for terrorism' but acquitted of 'conspiracy' at the first ever military commission trial held at Guananamo. Read more from Amnesty International on the trial outcome: http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updat
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Amnesty International's legal advisor Matt Pollard observed the first military commission trial proceedings held last week in Guantanamo. To read about the military commission at Guantanamo in the first part of a three part series, visit: http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updat
Tear it Down - Amnesty International
Amnesty International today released a new report titled 'Denying the undeniable: Enforced disappearances in Pakistan' using official court records and affidavits of victims and witnesses of enforced disappearances to confront the Pakistani authorities with evidence of how government officials obstructed attempts to tr...ace those who have “disappeared.”
To find out more: http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updat
Tear it Down - Amnesty International
In light of the very first interrogation tapes ever to be released from Guantanamo of Omar Khadr, Amnesty International reitterates that Khadr must be repatriated to Canada. The military commissions at Guantanamo Bay are flawed and not in line with international human rights and international law.
Take action by sending... a letter to the Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper urging him to bring Khadr back to Canada for a fair trial or release: http://www.amnesty.ca/take_action/action
To learn more about Omar Khadr, who was only 15 years old when he was detained by US soldiers in Afghanistan in 2002: http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updat
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Newsnight featured a report ‘Killing Terror with Kindness’ on Saudi Arabia’s programme of reintegration and deradicalisation of captured Al-Qaeda recruits. Reporting for Newsnight, the former Islamist Shiraz Maheer was given unprecedented access to the process. Click here for the video:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/ne
