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Amnesty International Tells President Obama Human Rights Must be High on Cuba Agenda
Ahead of the President Obama’s trip to Cuba next week -- the first by a sitting U.S. president in 90 years -- as well as his trip to Argentina, Amnesty…
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Amnesty International USA Statement on Obama Plan to Close Guantánamo
The Obama administration has submitted a plan to Congress to close the Guantánamo Bay detention site.
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Will Guantánamo Still Be Open in 2050?
Will Guantánamo still be open a decade from now? What about in 2050, a half century after it opened? Years from now, will we still be protesting—every January 11-- the…
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Your rights in jeopardy, global assault on freedoms, warns Amnesty International
International protection of human rights is in danger of unravelling as short-term national self-interest and draconian security crackdowns have led to a wholesale assault on basic freedoms and rights, warned…
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Amnesty International State of the World 2015-2016
International protection of human rights is in danger of unravelling as short-term national self-interest and draconian security crackdowns have led to a wholesale assault on basic freedoms and rights, warned…
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Waterboarding Is Torture: 3 Things You Need to Know
For years, Amnesty International has witnessed public figures repeating misconceptions and inaccuracies about waterboarding. This American debate on torture has mostly got it wrong – here are three realities you…
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New Photos Pertaining to Torture Released, U.S. Should Launch Criminal Investigations
The Department of Defense today disclosed nearly 200 previously unreleased photographs pertaining to torture and other ill-treatment of prisoners carried out by U.S. forces in Iraq, Afghanistan [and Guantánamo]. Hundreds…
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When Life is Disposable: Muslim Bodies as Precarious in the War on Terror
Muslim bodies have been detained, extradited, tortured, and unlawfully killed. Muslim lives have been drowned in a sea of policy and rhetoric that justifies the loss of lives as “collateral…
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Guantánamo Now Open Longer Under President Obama Than President Bush
Two weeks after the Guantánamo Bay detention site entered its 15th year of operation, the detention site faces a new milestone.
Update
Guantanamo Has Been Open Longer Under President Obama Than President Bush
As of January 30, 2016, the detention camp has been open under President Obama longer than it was open under President Bush. Despite multiple promises to close Guantánamo, President Obama…
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Two Additional Guantánamo Detainees Transferred
The Department of Defense today announced two more detainees have been transferred out of Guantánamo, bringing the prison’s total number of detainees to 91.
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Ten Additional Guantánamo Detainees Transferred
After President Obama committed once again to closing Guantánamo in his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, the Department of Defense today announced the transfer of 10 additional men…