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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.

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

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

Amnesty International / Reprieve Conference - 21 December 2005

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

Conference Report - 30 November 2005

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

Algeria: Persistent torture by the Military Security in secret locations - 10 June 2007

Torture and other ill-treatment continue to be perpetrated with impunity in Algeria in cases of individuals who are thought to have information about terrorism.

Rendition in the Horn of Africa - 15 June 2007

At least 140 men, women and children fleeing conflict in Somalia were arrested by Kenyan authorities between 30 December 2006 and February 2007 as they tried to enter

'Off the record' secret CIA detention - 7 June 2007

At least 39 individuals who remain missing are believed to have been subjected to enforced disappearance by the US authorities.