Street theatre in Luxembourg
On 26th June AI-Luxembourg held a public action at the main square of the city centre.
Amnesty activists performed a street theatre in co-operation with Dana Rufolo of the Theatre Research Institute of Europe. The play was performed in French, Luxembourgish and English and illustrated how torture is used to silence people all around the world. There was also one person dressed up as a Guantanamo detainee in an orange jumpsuit, black hood and handcuffs. He had a sign around his neck, describing the case of Ahmed Agiza, who was handed over to CIA agents by the Swedish authorities and taken to Egypt where he was allegedly tortured and sentenced to 15 years in prison. 
We had very good media coverage with articles published in five different newspapers, the action was shown on the news of RTL-Luxembourg television and interviews with the chair of AI-Luxembourg were broadcasted on the local radio as a headline of their news. Members of Amnesty International were also invited to a live radio show on Thursday evening at a local radio station to talk about the action, the street theatre performance and the work of Amnesty International in general.
AI-members have been collecting signatures for the postcard action targeting the French presidency of the European Union at four different public actions around the country throughout the month of June and as a result up to 900 persons have signed the postcards.
AI Portugal organized an air torture theatre production in downtown Lisbon on June 26. Activists were dressed as detainees dramatising flights to secret detention.
On June 26, Amnesty International Ireland hosted a poetry event at Buswells Hotel, Dublin with reading from Poems from Guantanamo.
Amnesty International Belgium held a fantastic public event in front of the European Parliament in Brussels on June 26.
No hiding place for torture’ - Amnesty International activists in Melbourne organized an action to mark 26 June, International Day of Victims of Torture.
The Amnesty International cell tour replica made its way to Washington DC on June 25, and will stay across the street from the Washington Monument till June 30.
Activists in Sydney, Australia, organized an action to demand that governments reaffirm that torture is never acceptable.
Amnesty International New Zealand marked International Day in Support of Victims of Torture on June 26 by seeking signatures on orange jump-suited petitioners in central Auckland today. The walking petition started at noon from the corner of Karangahape Road and Queen Street and continued down Queen St and throughout the CBD until 2pm.
