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Showing videos filed under: Amnesty International
Vince Warren: Freedom, Privacy, and the Courts
September 15, 2010“Do we want to live in a place where the U.S. government can torture and kill people at will? Or do we not?” asks Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. A new Amnesty International report says that thousands of detainees in Iraq, many recently transferred from U.S. custody, are still at risk of torture, and back in the U.S. the Obama administration continues to use "national security" as justification for everything from dismissing lawsuits to searching laptops.Vince Warren, Russ Feingold, and Jay Smooth
September 14, 2010“Do we want to live in a place where the U.S. government can torture and kill people at will? Or do we not?” asks Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. A new Amnesty International report says that thousands of detainees in Iraq, many recently transferred from U.S. custody, are still at risk of torture, and back in the U.S. the Obama administration continues to use "national security" as justification for everything from dismissing lawsuits to searching laptops.State Radio: A Fair Trial for Troy Davis
September 3, 2009Troy Davis has been on death row for 18 years. Many believe he's innocent and hasn't received fair trial. On August 17, the US Supreme Court ordered a new evidentiary hearing but the fight is far from over. The band State Radio and Amnesty International have made this video about his case.Jailed Without Justice
March 27, 2009In our constricted economy with many feeling more than a pinch, almost no one in Washington's talking seriously about Immigration reform. But according to a new report from Amnesty International, the status quo is costing us. In the last decade the number of immigrants in detention has tripled to over 30,000.Justice After Bush, Iraqi Refugee Stories, and Distributing Resonsibility
December 3, 2008Moving on from the crimes of the Bush administration is not possible, writes Scott Horton in the current issue of Harper's magazine. Particularly on the issue of torture, Horton argues that a commission is necessary to reckon with the administration’s use of unlawful methods of torture in the war on terror.
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