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Amnesty International Denounces US for Human Rights Violations

By Manila Ryce
Published Wednesday, May 30th, 2007, 5:09 am
Filed under: Videos: Political, Human Rights, World Issues, Videos, US Politics

Amnesty International’s annual report has validated Borat by basically saying the Bush Administration’s “war on terror” is a “war OF terror”. Then again, you knew that already. Here are some statistics from AI’s 2007 report.

91% of all known executions took place in 6countries: China, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Pakistan and the USA

…The US program of renditions – the secret transfer of individuals from one country to another, bypassing judicial and administrative due process – was analyzed in April in USA: Below the radar – Secret flights to torture and “disappearance” (AI Index: AMR 51/051/2006). Since 2001, hundreds of terror suspects have been transferred to states where physical and psychological brutality and coercion feature prominently in interrogations. Many detainees have been subjected to enforced disappearance, a crime under international law…

400 detainees from more than 30 nationalities were still held at Guantánamo Bay - the public symbol of the injustices in the “war on terror” – at the end of 2006

200 have staged hunger strikes since the camp opened

40 have attempted suicide

3 died in June 2006, after apparent suicides

An unknown number of detainees are held in other, secret, detention centres or “black sites” around the world

One Response to “Amnesty International Denounces US for Human Rights Violations”

  1. I wonder if AI coordinated the release of their report with this guy. Guantánamo is a travesty of justice and an embarrassment to human beings everywhere.

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