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Guantánamo has now been in operation for 8 years
Despite promises to close Guantánamo being made, it remains open 8 years after the first prisoner arrived.
UK resident Shaker Aamer is one of those still imprisoned. His 12-year-old daughter has had enough and is asking Gordon Brown to bring her father home. Add your voice to her plea.
Terrorism is not a new phenomenon but the 'war on terror' is.
While Amnesty acknowledges the right of governments to protect their citizens when they face complex challenges and threats, these measures should never result in the compromise of human rights.
President Obama has ordered the suspension of military trials and the closure of Guantánamo Bay.
These are positive moves and a testament to everyone who has been tirelessly campaigning on these issues for so long. However there is more that needs to be done and we should now call on our own government to full and independently investigate their involvement in abuses.
Terrorism, Security and Human Rights
Just emailed my MP to ask for an independent inquiry into torture
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I have just emailed my own MP to ask for an immediate independant enquiry into the UK international involvement of torture and also rendition flights.
I believe that we all have the right to freedom, we are born free, it is our inherent right. Who are we to take away someone else's freedom through such a horrific act as torture? Torture does not work anyway, it is an unreliable source of information!
I've not seen much reporting in the MSM of what I think is one of the most threatening decisions in U.S. and world history. It has implications for the U.K. extradition treaty with the U.S. and indeed for citizens across the globe.
Last week (Dec 2009) the U.S. Supreme Court effectively endorsed the use of torture by refusing to hear an appeal from a DC Circuit Court that Guantanamo detainees do not qualify as "persons": "torture is a foreseeable consequence of the military’s detention of suspected enemy combatants." In essence it avoided the constitutional issue enshrined in the U.S. Religious Freedom Restoration Act by declaring that a "suspected enemy combatant" is no longer a 'person'.
In other words anyone who is suspected can be automatically stripped of all human rights - whoever or wherever they are.
The rest of the world was of course watching President Obama collect a Peace Prize in Copenhagen.
Thanks to all grup Pth!
Thanks Rosa! Let us know if you hear anything back.
Just emailed my MP to ask for an independent inquiry into torture
Great to hear that judges have now granted Obama's request to suspend all military trials of Guantanamo detainees.
Love his sense of style Gok Wan would be proud
Hardeep, Hardeep, Hardeep! You are the funniest man in the world. Yes, funnier than Jim Davidson.
Hi Scutum - have you checked out www.amnesty.org.uk/student ? There's loads of advice about starting a new Amnesty group and details about all the support and resources available - once you've set up your group you will get a monthly mailing packed full of campaign info and materials to base your weekly meetings on!
In response to Thommo, good news! Amnesty are just developing a whole raft of ideas for schools to celebrate 60 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on Human Rights Day. Go to www.amnesty.org.uk/our-rights for lesson plans, film, action ideas and info. on our arts and media project.
Hi, I am head of RS and collective worship at a school in Berkshire. We are ruuning a day on human rights in December across the curriculum. Any ideas?
Hey, I'm about to launch an AI group at my college, any seasoned activists have any suggestions as to how to what a 20 or so weekly meeting should be comprised of?
what poster are you talking about damian? ahahaaa
Isn't that Jiva in the picture by the poster?