A request to the European Court must be lodged within the next two weeks. The clock is ticking.

It could mean, amazingly, that the government uses information they have got from snooping on you, against you, in a case you have brought…That affords the government an unfair advantage akin to playing poker in a hall of mirrors.

Amnesty International

30/10/2014 – Amnesty International welcomed the decision today from the Court of Appeal in London in the case of Abdul-Hakim Belhaj and Fatima Boudchar v Straw and Ors in which the Court permitted the Belhaj lawsuit to proceed. Amnesty International had intervened in the case, jointly with the International Commission of Jurists, JUSTICE, and REDRESS.

For the first time, UK intelligence agencies will have to answer for their activities and defend their indefensible policy for mass surveillance

Amnesty International  

British citizens will be alarmed to see their government justifying industrial-scale intrusion into their communications. The public should demand an end to this wholesale violation of their right to privacy.

These technologies enable regimes to crush dissent or criticism, chill free speech and destroy fundamental rights. The CAUSE coalition has documented cases where communication surveillance technologies have been used, not only to spy on people’s private lives, but also to assist governments to imprison and torture their critics

03/04/2014 – The US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI) has voted for a degree of transparency on the now long-festering injustices associated with the secret detention program operated by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) after the attacks of 11 September 2001.

The long-term trend is clear – the death penalty is becoming a thing of the past. We urge all governments who still kill in the name of justice to impose a moratorium on the death penalty immediately, with a view to abolishing it

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL

“The injustice that is Guantanamo has been allowed to fester for twelve years now – twelve years too many. It is wholly unacceptable that the human rights violations by the US against those detained have gone unchecked for so long”