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Amnesty marks sixth ‘anniversary’ of Guantanamo with prison cell protest outside US embassyToday was the sixth “anniversary” of Guantanamo prison opening, Amnesty International organized protests in London, Belfast in front of the US embassy to call for closure of this prison.

The 2008 Summer Olympics will take place from 8-24 August 2008 in Beijing, while China still remains one of the countries with most human rights abuse in the world and it is the biggest prison for journalists and cyber-dissidents. This Olympics is a good chance to pressure the Chinese regime to respect the human rights [...]

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever. Noam Chomsky My good friend Jadi has written in his Persian weblog that the webpage of The world’s Aids day is filtered (censored) inside Iran! Isn’t that amazingly stupid? [...]

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.” Edith Wharton American novelist (1862–1937) I first saw this quote in an Amnesty international commercial on YouTube. I was surfing in YouTube for the Amnesty international advertisement which you can watch here. I find it really well made,I [...]

Three men who escaped the death penalty joined forces in New York to campaign for a global abolition of this irreversible punishment. Each was sentenced to death for a crime they did not commit – and each shares a brutal experience of living on death row. Together, they lived under the shadow of execution for [...]

Amnesty has reacted to the launch of a new computer viral promoting the film Saw IV where players torture celebrities using electric drills, knives and spiked clubs. It is called the chamber of torture, even looking at the design of the webpage makes me feel sick. I really don’t understand, how sick one should be [...]