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Demonstration against enforced disappearances in Pakistan, September 2006

Pakistan fails to come clean on secret detentions

25 February 2009

Pakistan's new civilian government has failed to provide information about hundreds of cases of people believed to be held secretly by the government.
Binyam Mohamed

Binyam Mohamed released from Guantánamo

24 February 2009

UK resident Binyam Mohamed has been released from detention in Guantánamo Bay and allowed to return to the UK.
Abu Qatada shown on Al Arabiya TV in December 2005

Law Lords give go-ahead for deportations, including that of Abu Qatada

18 February 2009

The decision could give the UK government the green light to start deporting people to countries where they will be at risk of serious human rights abuses.
Joint Task Force Guard Force Troopers transport a detainee to the detainee hospital in Guantanamo Bay

EU ministers urged to help close Guantánamo

26 January 2009

A coalition of human rights organizations is calling on EU foreign ministers to help by offering humanitarian protection to detainees at risk of torture or other seri
Barack Obama, as US President, takes the oath of office

USA: Move to suspend military tribunals a positive first step

22 January 2009

Amnesty International has welcomed the new US administration’s moves to suspend military commission proceedings at Guantánamo as a “positive sign&
Cell block on ward in Camp Delta, Guantánamo Bay, 7 April 2006

USA: Executive order to close Guantánamo a major step forward

22 January 2009

Amnesty International's Secretary General Irene Khan has called President Barack Obama’s executive order to close the Guantánamo detention facility &quo
Still from the video 'First 100 days'

Obama's first 100 days

15 January 2009

We are not expecting the impossible from President Obama's first 100 days in office. Watch this video and take action.
Omar Khadr

President-elect Obama urged to halt Guantánamo trial

12 January 2009

Barack Obama is being urged to back up his pledge to close the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay by calling a halt to a military commission trial scheduled
About 250 people are currently held at Guantánamo.

President-elect Barack Obama: set a date to close Guantánamo

9 January 2009

Activists demand the closure of Guantánamo on the seventh anniversary of the first transfers of detainees to the US detention facility in Cuba.

Proposed new Indian anti-terror laws would violate human rights

23 December 2008

New legislation introduced in India after the November attacks in Mumbai city would violate international human rights treaties, according to Amnesty International.