Counter terror with justice

Amnesty International UK held a mass demonstration in Downing Street, calling on the UK Government not to turn a blind eye to torture

Counter terror: Stop torture, end impunity

26 June is International Day in Support of Vicitms of Torture. Call on governments to stop torture and end impunity in the context of counter terrorism.


Government responses to the threat of terrorist attacks have led to a weakening of the framework of international human rights. States are resorting to practices which have long been prohibited by international law, and have sought to justify them in the name of national security.

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Iraqi prisoner clutches bars of cell at Abu Ghraib Prison, Iraq

US detainees remain at risk as they are transferred to Iraqi custody

22 July 2009

Hundreds of detainees held by the US military in Iraq are being put at risk of execution, torture or other ill treatment as they are transferred to Iraqi custody without safeguards.

Saudi Arabia: Dire human rights record exacerbated by counter-terrorism measures

26 June 2009

The Saudi Arabian authorities have launched a sustained assault on human rights in the name of security and fighting terrorism. Thousands of people have been arreste

End incommunicado detention in Spain

26 June 2009

Spanish law allows terrorism suspects to be held incommunicado for upto 13 days. Incommunicado detainees have no effective access to alawyer or to a doctor of their ch

Protect detainees against abuses in Tunisia

26 June 2009

Individuals suspected or accused in terrorism-related cases in Tunisia are subject to human rights violations, including torture and other ill-treatment, solitary conf

Polish investigation into CIA crimes: questions over secrecy remain

26 June 2009

Amnesty International called for the investigation into the long standing allegations initiated by the Polish National Prosecutor’s Office in 2008 to be transp

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 co

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News

Cell block on ward in Camp Delta, Guantánamo Bay, 7 April 2006

US continues to look the other way on 'war on terror' abuses

20 January 2010

President Obama's administration has failed to match its words with concrete action when it comes to accountability and remedy for human rights violations committed in the name of 'countering terrorism'.

European states must take concrete steps to help close Guantánamo

11 January 2010

Leading human rights organizations have urged more European states to accept detainees held at the US detention centre at Guantánamo who cannot be returned to their countries of origin.

Lithuania admits existence of secret prison

22 December 2009

A Lithuanian parliamentary committee has concluded that a CIA secret prison operated in Lithuania during the US-led “war on terror”.
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite

Lithuania secret prison inquiry must set an example

17 December 2009

The government and President Dalia Grybauskaite have been urged to ensure that next week's report into allegations that the CIA operated a 'black site' in Lithuanian is thorough, independent, and impartial.
Joint Task Force Guard Force Troopers transport a detainee to the detainee hospital in Guantanamo Bay

Former Guantánamo Bay detainees deserve justice in Italy

9 December 2009

Tunisian nationals Adel Ben Mabrouk and Riadh Nasseri are suspected of having committed terrorism-related crimes in Italy prior to being held at the US detention centre.
Abu Omar was forcibly disappeared from a Milan street and flown via Germany to Egypt.

Convictions in Abu Omar rendition case a step toward accountability

5 November 2009

US and Italian intelligence agents are convicted for their involvement in the abduction of Usama Mostafa Hassan Nasr (better known as Abu Omar).
Barack Obama speaking in the White House East Room, Washington DC, 7 October 2009.

Amnesty International urges President Obama to build on Nobel Peace Prize win

9 October 2009

US President Barack Obama must keep justice, human rights and the rule of law at the centre of his efforts to promote peace.
Bagram airbase, Afghanistan, 2002

USA must grant Bagram detainees access to US courts

16 September 2009

The USA must grant all detainees held in US custody at the Bagram airbase in Afghanistan access to US courts and legal counsel, Amnesty International has said.
A still from the film Spain: Out of the Shadows shows a simulation of how Mohammed Mrabet Fahsi was tortured by the Guarda Civil

Spain must end incommunicado detention

15 September 2009

Amnesty International's new report shows how Spain has one of the strictest detention regimes in Europe, which is in breach of the country's obligations under international human rights law.
A Saudi special forces soldier stands guard at a check point, 5 February 2005, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia - countering terrorism with repression

11 September 2009

Since the September 11 attacks in the USA eight years ago, the Saudi Arabian authorities have launched a sustained assault on human rights in the name of countering terrorism.