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Press Release
Surveillance of American Muslims Underscores Lack of Safeguards
Revelations today in The Intercept about the apparently arbitrary surveillance of several prominent American Muslims underscore the lack of safeguards to protect the rights of persons targeted by U.S. surveillance operations.
July 9, 2014
Report
Reflections and recommendations on truth, remedy and accountability as declassification of Senate Committee summary report on CIA secret detentions awaited.
Amnesty International calls for the full report to be declassified as a matter of priority –with redactions only where strictly necessary– and any information that pertains to human rights violations, including crimes under international law, published.
June 25, 2014
Press Release
Amnesty International Responds to Release of “Targeted Killing” Memo
In response to today's release of the Department of Justice's "Targetted Killing" memo, Amnesty International released the following statement.
June 23, 2014
Report
President and Congress should apply human rights principles and close Guantánamo
The US prison camp at Guantánamo is back on the political agenda. And the politicking again threatens to derail the already long overdue goal of closing it. This is what happens when a government operates a detention regime that flouts human rights and the rule of law and then fails to apply human rights principles in ending it.
June 16, 2014
Press Release
Amnesty Responds to Reports of Obama Administration Resuming Drones Strikes
In response to reports that the Obama administration has launched its first drone strike in Pakistan since last year, Zeke Johnson, Director of Amnesty International USA's Security & Human Rights Program, issued the following statement.
June 11, 2014
Press Release
CIA Joins Social Media: Funny If Not For Those Pesky Facts
The Director of Amnesty International USA's Security & Human Rights Program reacts to the CIA's first tweet.
June 6, 2014
Press Release
CIA Joins Social Media: Funny If Not For Those Pesky Facts
The Director of Amnesty International USA's Security & Human Rights Program reacts to the CIA's first tweet.
June 6, 2014
Press Release
Rally to Protest Media Silenced and Dozens Detained During Thailand Military Crackdown
Amnesty International USA is holding a rally outside the Embassy of Thailand in Washington, D.C. on Thursday, June 5, 2014 to protest the country’s military crackdown.
May 29, 2014
Press Release
Amnesty International USA on President Obama at West Point: Time to Follow Through
President Obama is right to say that ‘we cannot exempt ourselves from the rules that apply to everyone else,’ but for too long, the U.S. government has perpetuated a counter-terrorism strategy that has thrown the most basic human rights standards by the wayside.
May 28, 2014
Press Release
Amnesty International Withdraws Support for USA Freedom Act, Urges Stronger Reforms
In response to passage of the USA Freedom Act (H.R. 3361) by the House of Representatives today, Zeke Johnson, Director of Amnesty International USA's Security & Human Rights Program, issued the following statement.
May 22, 2014
Press Release
35 Human Rights Groups Hold ‘May 23 Global Day of Action To Close Guantánamo and End Indefinite Detention’
Amnesty International, the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, September 11th Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, Witness Against Torture and other groups are banding together in Washington as part of a Global Day of Action to Close Guantánamo and End Indefinite Detention.
May 21, 2014
Press Release
Amnesty Marks One Year Since President Obama’s National Security Speech
Marking one year since President Obama's national security speech on May 23, 2013, Steven W. Hawkins, executive director of Amnesty International USA, issued the following statement.
May 21, 2014