Arab Spring
Case studies of detainees in Iraqi prisons
September 2010 The stories of some of the 30,000 Iraqi detainees who are at risk of torture
NEW ORDER, SAME ABUSES: Unlawful detentions and torture in Iraq
September 2010Thirty thousand detainees are at risk of torture and other human rights abuses in Iraqi prisons.
Breaking the Chain: Ending Ireland’s role in renditions
June 2009
Amnesty International’s most comprehensive examination of the use of Ireland by the CIA as part of the renditions and torture programme
State of denial: Europe's role in rendition and secret detention
June 2008
A report exposing the extent of the involvement of European states as active participants and facilitators of the illegal US Extraordinary renditions programme.
Case Studies for State of denial: Europe's role in rendition and secret detention
Six case studies from State of denial: Europe's role in rendition and secret detention detailing the involvement of British, German, Italian, Macedonian, Bosnian and Swedish state authorities in participating in the illegal US Extraordinary renditions programme.
In whose best interests?
April 2008
Summary of a report on Omar Khadr, a Canadian national and child ‘enemy combatant’ facing a military commission at Guantánamo Bay
Carnage and Despair: Iraq Five Years On
March 2008
A report on the human rights situation in Iraq ahead of the fifth anniversary of the war.
From Abu Ghraib to secret CIA custody: Summary
March 2008
One man’s story illustrates the global reach of the USA’s secret detention network and provides chilling allegations of the deliberate and persistent use of torture and other ill-treatment. It is the story of a man who has never been charged with any crime, but who spent nearly three years in US custody as a victim of enforced disappearance.
Impunity and injustice in the "war on terror". From torture in secret detention to execution after unfair trial
February 2008
Following the attacks on 11 September 2001 the US government has treated detainees as individuals from whom information could be extracted rather than to whom process was due. Its use of water torture is now officially out in the open along with the revelation that videotapes of CIA interrogations have been destroyed. Amongst other things, this document calls on the US government to repudiate and investigate the CIA's use of "waterboarding" and to end the use of secret detention.
