AI Chile celebrated a night of video screenings, art exhibition, poetry reading, and music at the Utopia Cafe on 15 May.

(more…)

Marking the 60th anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights, and six years since the the attacks of 11 September 2001, Amnesty International is bringing a life size replica of a maximum security cell at Guantánamo Bay to several cities across the US.

On 30 May, the cell arrived in Philadelphia where it stayed for two days, until the 1 June. (more…)

Since it’s official release on 22 April 2008, The Stuff of life film has been showcased on some 50 UK theatre screens, and has been viewed on YouTube over 1 million times.

Produced by Amnesty International UK, this 90 second video exposes the horrors of the interrogation technique known as “waterboarding”. This technique was used by the CIA and authorised by US President, George W. Bush.

(more…)

On May 8, 2008 AI Northern Ireland celebrated the book launch of Murat Kurnaz’s best-seller Five years of my life: A report from Guantánamo at the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival in Belfast at a sold-out Black Box.

Murat Kuraz is a Turkish national who was born in Germany in 1982. His prolonged detention in Guantánamo had been complicated by his status – lacking German citizenship, the German authorities had refused his return to Germany. The Turkish authorities had shown little interest in his case. It was only after intense lobbying from his family, lawyers and AI members around the world, including in his home town of Bremen, that the German authorities began to act on his behalf, finally paving the way for his return.

(more…)

After having launched the mini site Terrorairlines, Amnesty International France produced t-shirts to support activists actions on renditions.

The design imitates barbed wire with planes and goes with the catch up phrase “Air Torture - Taking you to places you never dreamt of” on the front and “Stop illegal transferts for a torture free sky” on the back.

More information through Amnesty France e-shop (text in French) here

Over 200 St. Louis activists joined together to protest the arrival of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales who came to St. Louis February 19th to give a paid talk ($30,000) at Washington University.

Amnesty International joined with student groups from Washington University, Webster, UMSL, SLU, and local community organizations like the ACLU, Instead of War, Code Pink, WILPF, CTSA, and other St. Louis area groups to demand that we: Close Guantánamo! Denounce Torture! Restore Habeas!

Read more about this action and watch more pictures.

Amnesty International France used the release in France of the movie “Renditions” (by Gavin Hood) to do the promotion of Amnesty’s declaration to end illegal detention.

AI France organised a premiere in Paris, in a movie theatre located on Les Champs Elysées in early January, a debate took place after the movie.

(more…)

Our activity the 8th of february went really well and we received many signatures. Two people were dressed with orange suits and had black hoods covering the heads, and a third person had orange strips. A lot of people got interested in the action (more…)

En partenariat avec huit ONGs de defense des Droits Humaines au Maroc, la section marocaine a organise un sit-in le vendredi 11 janvier 08 de 17h a 17h30 devant le siege des Nations Unies a Rabat.

(more…)

A conference to discuss the situation of Yemeni detainees at Guantánamo was organised by Reprieve and HOOD in San’a, Yemen on 8th to 10th January. Amnesty International participated in the conference, organising reading of poems by Guantanamo detainees.

(more…)