Amnesty International Denounces US for Human Rights Violations

By Manila Ryce

Published Wednesday, May 30th, 2007, 5:09 am

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 6 countries: 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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gUAp7SjmwE

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Amnesty International Denounces US for Human Rights Violations

By Manila Ryce

Published Wednesday, May 30th, 2007, 5:09 am

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 6 countries: 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
Guant=E1namo 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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D1gUAp7SjmwE

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Amnesty International Denounces US for Human Rights Violations

By Manila Ryce

Published Wednesday, May 30th, 2007, 5:09 am

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 6 countries: 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
Guant=E1namo 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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3D1gUAp7SjmwE

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