AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL 2012 REPORT

Published on May 24, 2012 by AmnestyInternational
http://youtu.be/2sbAEbESTNQ


Published on May 23, 2012 by AmnestyInternational
http://youtu.be/z4CNygt1WOk


The Amnesty International Report 2012 provides a comprehensive global overview of the state of human rights worldwide. The 400-page book documents the state of human rights in 155 countries around the world during 2011. It reflects Amnesty International's work to combat human rights abuses and lays out its future agenda for tackling human rights abuses.

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Amnesty International decries U.S. rights violations

Amnesty International lambasts US for human rights violations
Press TV
Thu May 24, 2012

Amnesty International has lambasted the United States for a number of human rights violations across the world.

In its 2012 annual report published on Wednesday, the rights group called US drone attacks in Yemen “extrajudicial executions,” Amnesty International’s website said.

Amnesty also censured US President Barack Obama’s failure to shut down the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and criticized conditions in US prisons.

The report said that at the end of 2011, almost two years after Obama’s deadline to close the detention center, “171 men were still held at the base, including four who had been convicted by military commission.”

In addition, Amnesty criticized Washington for its “use of lethal force” for the “unlawful” killing of Osama Bin Laden in Pakistan in May 2011.

“The US administration made clear that the operation had been conducted under the USA’s theory of a global armed conflict between the USA and al-Qaeda in which the USA does not recognize the applicability of international human rights law. In the absence of further clarification from the US authorities, the killing of Osama Bin Laden would appear to have been unlawful,” it said.

The rights group also condemned human rights violations committed under the administration of former US President George W. Bush, including CIA’s “secret detention and rendition”, which is a process of transferring “individuals from the custody of one state to another by means that bypass judicial and administrative due process”, and condemned the impunity with which Bush-era officials operated.

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