Disappearances And Abductions

Murat Kurnaz has been released from Guantánamo! - 25 August 2006

Released from Guantánamo on 24 August 2006, Murat Kurnaz had been held for four years and eight months without charge or trial.

Whereabouts unknown - thousands still missing worldwide - 30 August 2007

To “disappear” is to vanish, to cease to be, to be lost. But the “disappeared” have not simply vanished. Someone, somewhere, knows what has h

Guantánamo: Freedom for UK resident Bisher al-Rawi - 3 April 2007

Amnesty International welcomes the release from Guantánamo of Bisher al-Rawi. The UK resident was reunited with his family in the UK on 1 April after more than

Another death at Guantánamo after apparent suicide - 31 May 2007

Amnesty International has called for a fully independent investigation led by civilians into the death of a Saudi Arabian national at Guantánamo after an appare

2000 days of Guantánamo - 4 July 2007

4 July is a day for celebration in the USA. The bitter irony is that, this year, 4 July also marks 2,000 days since the US administration transferred the first "w

Enforced disappearances

Enforced disappearances persist in many countries all over the world, having been a continuing feature of the second half of the twentieth century since they were committed on a gross scale in

Activists tell of Myanmar 'witch hunt' - 19 October 2007

Monks and activists in Myanmar have told Amnesty International of the brutal repression suffered by anti-government protesters in the country.
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