Amnesty International USA is the US Section of Amnesty International, a worldwide human rights organization. http://www.amnestyusa.org/rss/en/news/waronterror.xml en Amnesty International Amnesty International hourly 4 http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091118002&lang=e&rss=waronterror Larry Cox, Amnesty International USA executive director, issued the following statement in response to President Barack Obama's remarks that the U.S.-controlled detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, will not be closed by his January 22, 2010, deadline. 2009-11-18T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091113001&lang=e&rss=waronterror Tom Parker, Amnesty International USA policy director for (counter) terrorism and human rights, issued the following statement in response to the Obama administration?s announcement that several 9/11 detainees will be transferred to federal courts: 2009-11-13T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091105001&lang=e&rss=waronterror Amendment could have barred any Guantanamo detainee from receiving a trial in U.S. federal courts. 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009110513894&lang=e&rss=waronterror US and Italian intelligence agents are convicted for their involvement in the abduction of Usama Mostafa Hassan Nasr (better known as Abu Omar). 2009-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 countries=egypt,italy,usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091104002&lang=e&rss=waronterror Tom Parker, Amnesty International USA?s policy director for (counter)-terrorism and human rights, issued the following statement in response to the Italian court?s decision to convict 23 Americans in the CIA kidnapping case of Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, known as Abu Omar 2009-11-04T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091029001&lang=e&rss=waronterror Amnesty International said today that the Sudanese government was responsible for the death and ill-treatment of a prisoner who died from tuberculosis in police custody last week. 2009-10-28T00:00:00-05:00 countries=sudan http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091028002&lang=e&rss=waronterror President Obama signed the FY10 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) today, which contains revisions to the rules for military commissions used to try detainees at the U.S.-controlled detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Amnesty International rejects as insufficient the changes made and notes that President Obama?s decision to stand by the commissions flies in the face of his promise that U.S. policy would uphold the nation?s laws and values. 2009-10-28T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091022001&lang=e&rss=waronterror The Pakistani military must stop its harassment of civilians from the Mehsud tribe as they flee the government?s latest offensive against the Pakistani Taliban in the northwest of the country, Amnesty International said today. 2009-10-22T00:00:00-05:00 countries=afghanistan,pakistan http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091022002&lang=e&rss=waronterror Amnesty International USA issued a statement in response to Congress? passage of the FY10 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that revises the rules for military commissions used to try detainees at the U.S.-controlled detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. 2009-10-22T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20091021001&lang=e&rss=waronterror However, human rights organization rebukes Congress and administration for blocking the release of ?torture photos;? asks Congress to resist any further amendments barring detainees for trials in the United States 2009-10-21T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009101913603&lang=e&rss=waronterror The government of Pakistan remains woefully under-prepared for a displacement crisis in South Waziristan as civilians flee the region following three days of heavy fighting. 2009-10-19T00:00:00-05:00 countries=pakistan,afghanistan http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009091613152&lang=e&rss=waronterror 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. 2009-09-16T00:00:00-05:00 countries=afghanistan,usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009091113065&lang=e&rss=waronterror 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. 2009-09-11T00:00:00-05:00 countries=saudi_arabia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20090901001&lang=e&rss=waronterror 2009-09-01T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20090828001&lang=e&rss=waronterror By refusing to seek the repatriation of its national, Omar Khadr, from US custody in Guantánamo Bay, the Canadian government is betraying human rights principles and perpetuating injustice, while also failing to offer a remedy for its own participation in the violation of his human rights. At the same time as the Canadian authorities were continuing on their path of resisting calling for Omar Khadr?s repatriation, Afghan national Mohammed Jawad ? like Omar Khadr taken into US custody in 2002 in Afghanistan when he was still a child ? was released from Guantánamo and has been reunited with members of his family in Afghanistan. 2009-08-28T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009082711942&lang=e&rss=waronterror US Attorney General Eric Holder has ordered a "preliminary review" into the secret detention programme operated by the CIA after the attacks of 11 September 2001. It's a welcome first step but it's not enough, says Amnesty International. 2009-08-27T00:00:00-05:00 countries=oman,poland,romania,usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20090824001&lang=e&rss=waronterror Human Rights Organization Calls on Obama for More Concrete Steps to Ensure Torture Ceases 2009-08-24T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20090824003&lang=e&rss=waronterror Amnesty, CCR and NYU Receive Docs Cheney Wanted Declassified to Justify Torture. 2009-08-24T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20090820001&lang=e&rss=waronterror The Tunisian authorities continue to commit human rights violations in the name of security and counter-terrorism, yet other states continue to forcibly return Tunisian nationals at risk of torture and other abuses or to threaten such returns, Amnesty International said in a new report today. 2009-08-20T00:00:00-05:00 countries=tunisia,usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009081311785&lang=e&rss=waronterror Ali Ben Sassi Toumi has been accused of 'membership of a terrorist organization', 'providing expertise and logistical support to a terrorist organization' and fraud. 2009-08-13T00:00:00-05:00 countries=italy,tunisia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009073111639&lang=e&rss=waronterror A US judge has ordered the release of a young Afghan detained in Guantánamo Bay after six and a half years in US custody. 2009-07-31T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009072211472&lang=e&rss=waronterror The Saudi Arabian authorities have launched a sustained assault on human rights under the façade of countering terrorism. 2009-07-22T00:00:00-05:00 countries=saudi_arabia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20090721001&lang=e&rss=waronterror USA: Sounding a note of urgency: Judge loses patience over Guantánamo case; detention and interrogation policy Task Forces delay reports 2009-07-21T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20090716001&lang=e&rss=waronterror In a September 2002 report, the assistant commander of the US Army Intelligence Center described the detention facility at the US Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba as "America?s Battle Lab" in the global "war on terror". According to the then head of the Pentagon's Criminal Investigative Task Force (CITF), two commanders in charge of the Guantánamo detentions, Major General Michael Dunlavey and his successor, Major General Geoffrey Miller, adopted the "Battle Lab" description. They were among those officials who sought approval for, or approved, interrogation methods that violated the prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment. 2009-07-16T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20090716002&lang=e&rss=waronterror Amnesty International continues to urge the USA, as part of the shutting down of the Guantánamo detention facility, to abandon its military commission experiment, begun by President George W. Bush in November 2001 and revised under the MCA in September 2006. The organization believes that the military commissions cannot be a part of any real solution to the disregard for human rights that has marked the USA?s response to the attacks of 11 September 2001. De-militarizing trials of Guantánamo detainees and others accused of similar conduct should be a key part of bringing this regrettable chapter to a close and towards ensuring the USA?s future respect for its human rights obligations. 2009-07-16T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009071411416&lang=e&rss=waronterror The Specialized Criminal Court found the men guilty of terrorist activities that included the killing of nine tourists and attacks on western embassies. 2009-07-14T00:00:00-05:00 countries=yemen http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009071011365&lang=e&rss=waronterror Mounting evidence, including a statement by former Shadow Home Secretary David Davis, suggests that UK authorities expolited the torture of terrorism suspects by foreign intelligence agencies. 2009-07-10T00:00:00-05:00 countries=pakistan,united_kingdom http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009062611131&lang=e&rss=waronterror President Obama’s decision to close the US detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, by next January leads Amnesty International to fear that several Tunisians detained there could be forcibly returned to Tunisia where they would be at risk of further, serious human rights violations, including detention without trial and torture. 2009-06-26T00:00:00-05:00 countries=tunisia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR510802009&lang=e&rss=waronterror 24 June 2009 2009-06-24T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU2009062411089&lang=e&rss=waronterror Former detainees held by the USA at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan have told the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) how they were subjected to abuse while in custody. 2009-06-24T00:00:00-05:00 countries=afghanistan,usa