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=ENGNAU200811188245&lang=e&rss=waronterror 'Early action' promised on closing the detention centre at Guantánamo Bay and ensuring that the USA does not resort to torture. 2008-11-18T00:00:00-05:00 countries=cuba,usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20081117001&lang=e&rss=waronterror President-elect Obama's statement in a CBS interview yesterday that he will follow through on his commitment to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay is an important step in the right direction, Amnesty International said today. 2008-11-17T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200811118066&lang=e&rss=waronterror Five human rights groups have called on European governments to provide humanitarian protection to Guantánamo detainees who will not be charged with any crime but who cannot be returned to their country of origin for fear of torture or other human rights violations. 2008-11-11T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200811057962&lang=e&rss=waronterror Amnesty International is calling on US president elect Barack Obama to take concrete steps to demonstrate commitment to human rights. 2008-11-05T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200810317918&lang=e&rss=waronterror Three men convicted of involvement in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings, which killed 202 people and injured a further 209, are to be executed in early November. 2008-10-31T00:00:00-05:00 countries=indonesia http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20081024001&lang=e&rss=waronterror Today, Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) brought its national tour of a life-size Guantanamo prison cell replica to St. Louis, Missouri. This exhibit--open to the public from today through Sunday, October 26--is designed to increase public awareness and mount pressure on the Bush administration and Congress to close down the U.S.-controlled detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. 2008-10-24T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200810227807&lang=e&rss=waronterror The UK's highest court will begin hearing two important test cases related to human rights and the UK government's counter-terrorism policies on Thursday. 2008-10-22T00:00:00-05:00 countries=algeria,jordan,united_kingdom http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20081021002&lang=e&rss=waronterror Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International USA, issued the following statement regarding the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit's decision on Monday, October 20 to block the release of the 17 Uighur detainees from the U.S.-controlled detention facility in Guantanamo Bay. Their release had been ordered by the lower District Court on October 7: 2008-10-21T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200810137696&lang=e&rss=waronterror The House of Lords rejected proposals on Monday that would allow the period of pre-charge detention in terrorism cases to be extended up to 42 days. 2008-10-13T00:00:00-05:00 countries=united_kingdom http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200810137695&lang=e&rss=waronterror The House of Lords in the UK is expected to vote on Monday on proposals that would allow the period of pre-charge detention in terrorism cases to be extended. 2008-10-13T00:00:00-05:00 countries=united_kingdom http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20081009002&lang=e&rss=waronterror Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International USA, issued the following statement regarding the continued legal wrangling about the status of the 17 Uighur detainees in Guantanamo Bay. On the evening of October 8, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit blocked the release of the Uighur detainees, which had been ordered by the lower District Court on October 7. The Court granted the U.S. government's emergency motion for a stay so that the U.S. government could file an appeal regarding the Uighur detainees entry into the United States: 2008-10-09T00:00:00-05:00 countries=cuba,usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20081007001&lang=e&rss=waronterror Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International USA, issued the following statement in response to the decision by the United States District Court for the District of Columbia to allow the 17 remaining Uighur Guantanamo detainees to be released into the United States while their habeas corpus cases are decided. All these men were ruled to be non-enemy combatants by the U.S. Department of Defense: 2008-10-07T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080918001&lang=e&rss=waronterror Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) will bring its national tour of a life-size Guantanamo prison cell replica to Santa Monica, California, starting Thursday, Sept. 18, and running through Saturday, Sept. 20. Academy Award-winning director Paul Haggis, actor Mark Ruffalo and others will join AIUSA Executive Director Larry Cox and lawyers challenging the unlawful detentions at Guantanamo for a press conference at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 18, at the Third Street Promenade in Santa Monica calling on the Bush administration to shut down Guantanamo. 2008-09-18T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200809125935&lang=e&rss=waronterror With evidence that the CIA operated a secret detention facility in Poland mounting, Amnesty International has welcomed the news that public prosecutors have initiated an investigation into these long-standing allegations. 2008-09-12T00:00:00-05:00 countries=poland,usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080904003&lang=e&rss=waronterror As the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) conducts the first major review of its Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, an Amnesty International report shows how governments have so far failed to uphold the Strategy's human rights standards. 2008-09-04T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGIOR400192008&lang=e&rss=waronterror On 4 September 2008, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), sitting in plenary, will conduct its first review of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy ("the Global Strategy") which it adopted two years ago, on 8 September 2006 2008-09-03T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200808085714&lang=e&rss=waronterror Convicted of “providing material support for terrorism”, the Yemeni national was sentenced to five and a half years in prison at the first US military commission trial in Guantánamo Bay. 2008-08-08T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR510902008&lang=e&rss=waronterror Salim Hamdan, the Yemeni national convicted on 6 August 2008 by military commission of providing military support for terrorism was sentenced to five and half years. Prosecutors had asked for a 30-year prison sentence. However, his future remains unclear, due largely to the Military Commissions Act. Amnesty International calls for the military commission system to be abandoned and for such trials to be conducted in the ordinary US federal criminal courts. 2008-08-08T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080806001&lang=e&rss=waronterror Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International USA, issued the following statement in response to today?s verdict in the first military commissions trial at Guantanamo Bay in the case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan: 2008-08-06T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200808065684&lang=e&rss=waronterror Matthew Pollard, Amnesty International's legal advisor, describes the Guantánamo hearings and discusses the reasons for his being in Guantánamo. 2008-08-06T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200808065688&lang=e&rss=waronterror Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni national, has been convicted by a panel of sixUS military officers of "providing material support for terrorism", butacquitted of "conspiracy". 2008-08-06T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200808055683&lang=e&rss=waronterror Matt Pollard, Amnesty International’s latest trial observer at the recent military commission hearings at Guantánamo Bay, gives a sense of what it was like there. 2008-08-05T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200807225552&lang=e&rss=waronterror New government of Pakistan must reveal the truth about enforced disappearances 2008-07-22T00:00:00-05:00 countries=pakistan http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080722002&lang=e&rss=waronterror The Department of Justice (DOJ) must stop its stonewalling tactics and produce documents related to the U.S. government?s ghost detention, torture, and extraordinary rendition program, three prominent human rights groups urged today, just after collectively filing a motion to require the DOJ to make certain information public. The motion also seeks to compel the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to process the groups? request for particular documents. 2008-07-21T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080715002&lang=e&rss=waronterror Reacting to today's release of a video publicly showing Canadian citizen Omar Khadr being questioned at the U.S.-controlled detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Amnesty International called for Khadr to be repatriated to Canada immediately. 2008-07-15T00:00:00-05:00 countries=canada http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200807155475&lang=e&rss=waronterror Reacting to the release of a video publicly showing Canadian citizen Omar Khadr being questioned at the US detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Amnesty International called for Khadr to be repatriated to Canada immediately. 2008-07-15T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080711001&lang=e&rss=waronterror On 10 July 2008, military commission judge US Marine Colonel Ralph Kohlmann held further proceedings to question the men accused of orchestrating the attacks of 11 September 2001 about their decision to represent themselves at their forthcoming death penalty trial in the US Naval Base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Amnesty International had an observer at the proceedings. 2008-07-11T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGUSA20080710001&lang=e&rss=waronterror Two of the five men accused of orchestrating the attacks of 11 September 2001 and facing a death penalty trial by military commission appeared separately in front of a military judge yesterday in Guantánamo to be questioned about their decision to represent themselves. The three other defendants are scheduled to appear before the judge, US Marine Colonel Ralph Kohlmann, today. Amnesty International has an observer at the proceedings. 2008-07-10T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200807105395&lang=e&rss=waronterror Three of the five men accused of orchestrating the attacks of 11 September 2001 and facing a death penalty trial by military commission are appearing in front of a military judge in Guantánamo on Thursday. 2008-07-10T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGNAU200807095371&lang=e&rss=waronterror Five Guantánamo detainees accused of involvement in the attacks of 11 September 2001 in the USA are due to appear in front of a military judge this week. 2008-07-09T00:00:00-05:00 countries=usa