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Nadja Dizdarević at the workshop in Slovenia

Youth activism in the Balkans

16 May 2006

Young, energetic, and campaigning for human rights in the Balkans. Men and women who recently attended an activism workshop organized by Amnesty International in Lju
 AI Poland demonstrates against Abu Ghraib prison

Abu Ghraib torture victims still seeking redress

27 April 2006

Two years ago the release of photographs showing detainees being tortured and ill-treated by US military personnel at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq shocked and horrified t
 Amnesty International Denmark takes action for torture free skies

The secretive and illegal US programme of 'rendition'

5 April 2006

Salah 'Ali Qaru finally emerged free from detention around midnight on 27 March. In nearly three years, the 27-year-old Yemeni was tortured in Jordan, flown from count
 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