With evidence that the CIA operated a secret detention facility in Poland mounting, Amnesty International has welcomed the news that public prosecutors have initiated an investigation into these long-standing allegations.
As the United Nations General Assembly conducts the first major
review of its Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, an Amnesty
International report shows how governments have so far failed to uphold
the Strategy's human rights standards.
Amnesty International called on the Pakistan government to reveal the
fate and whereabouts of hundreds of disappeared people, amid
international protests to mark the 25th International Day of the
Disappeared on Saturday 30 August.
Convicted of “providing material support for terrorism”, the Yemeni national was sentenced to five and a half years in
prison at the first US military commission trial in Guantánamo Bay.
Matthew Pollard, Amnesty International's legal advisor, describes the Guantánamo hearings and discusses the reasons for his being in Guantánamo.
Matthew Pollard, Amnesty International's legal advisor, observed the first trial to take place before a military commission at Guantánamo Bay.
Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni national, has been convicted by a panel of six US military officers of "providing material support for terrorism", but acquitted of "conspiracy".
"The conviction of Salim Hamdan under procedures that do not meet international fair trial standards compounds the injustice of his more than five years' unlawful detention in Guantánamo," said Amnesty International today.
Matt Pollard, Amnesty International’s latest trial observer atthe recent military commission hearings at Guantánamo Bay, gives a sense of what it was like there.
"The new government of Pakistan should immediately reveal details of where hundreds of missing people, the victims of enforced disappearances, are being held, investigate all cases and hold to account those responsible -- including the country's security and intelligence agencies," said Amnesty International in a report released today.
