Amnesty International

Documents reveal the CIA was allowed to deny detainees sleep upward of 80 to 180 hours at a time.

Sens. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), and Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) on Thursday responded to a growing number of reports about the poor conditions of immigration detention centers that violate the Department of Homeland Security’s own rules. On Thursday they introduced the the “Protect Citizens from Unlawful Detention Act” and “Prevent Detainee Deaths and Abuse [...]

An anonymous White House quote on preventive detention has put civil liberties advocates on the offensive.

Anyone with a serious S&M fetish will appreciate the auction, announced Monday, of a collection of 252 torture devices from the 16th and 17th centuries. Some of the proceeds of the sale will go to charities such as Amnesty International, which campaign to end torture.

President Obama really opened a big fat can of worms when he issued those executive orders last week.  Not only did he make all sorts of promises on state secrets that he’s now being called on to fulfill, but in promising to review the conditions of detention at Guantanamo Bay, he opened himself up to [...]

Amnesty International’s statement on the KSM guilty plea:

By now, most people have heard about The Associated Press report that Sen. Barack Obama has a distant aunt –- his deceased father’s half-sister -– living in Boston who is an undocumented alien. They may also know that Zeituni Onyango, from Kenya, was denied political asylum by an immigration judge four years ago.
As Josh [...]