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Publication Date: 24 January 2007

UK to sign Council of Europe trafficking convention

AI is campaigning to see this happen by the end of this year - so far three countries (Austria, Moldova and Romania) have ratified the Convention and 31 states have

Publication Date: 25 August 2006

Murat Kurnaz has been released from Guantánamo!

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

Publication Date: 27 July 2006

Russian Federation: The palpable undercurrent of fear and violence

Reports from the Northern Caucasus regularly bring further evidence of continuing arbitrary detentions, followed by torture, "disappearance" or unlawful ki

Publication Date: 24 July 2006

Jordan: 'Your confessions are ready to sign!'

Jordan detains and tortures political and security suspects.

Publication Date: 12 June 2006

Guántanamo deaths: tragic reminders of camp's lawlessness

On Saturday 10 June, three Guantánamo detainees were found dead in their cells.

Publication Date: 16 May 2006

Youth activism in the Balkans

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

Publication Date: 03 May 2006

Press Freedom: Journalists in need of protection

Since the beginning of the war in Iraq in March 2003, more journalists have been killed in that country than anywhere else in the world.

Publication Date: 05 April 2006

The secretive and illegal US programme of 'rendition'

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

Publication Date: 22 February 2006

UK government’s 'war on terror' policies put people at risk of torture

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

Publication Date: 03 February 2006

Guantánamo: A life sentence of suffering and stigmatization

The US detention centre at Guantánamo Bay is condemning thousands of people across the world to a life of suffering, torment and stigmatisation.

Publication Date: 21 December 2005

Amnesty International / Reprieve Conference

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

Publication Date: 07 December 2005

Conference paper: Maher Arar and extraordinary renditions

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

Publication Date: 30 November 2005

Conference Report

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

Publication Date: 29 November 2005

Amnesty International/Reprieve conference: Non-refoulement and outsourcing torture

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

Publication Date: 25 November 2005

Guantánamo: UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health denied access

18 months have passed since I first wrote to the Government of the United States of America requesting a visit to Guantánamo Bay.

Publication Date: 21 November 2005

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil: The case of Ahmed Abu Ali

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.

Publication Date: 03 May 2004

Press freedom: Deliberately targeted for doing their jobs

The freedom of the press is an essential element of the protection of human rights.

Publication Date: 10 December 2003

Control Arms Campaign: Tangible momentum and potential for real change

On this 55th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, threats of new terrorist attacks and the dangers of weapons of mass destruction dominate the h