The Afghan government must prevent the country’s intelligence agency, the National Security Directorate, from suppressing media freedom, said Amnesty International today.
Thursday 17 July marks the tenth anniversary of the Rome Statute, the treaty that led to the establishment of the International Criminal Court.
Mohammed Jawad and Omar Khadr were under 18 at the time of their detention by the US military in Afghanistan. Their pre-trial hearings resumed this week.
The international community and the Afghan government have not met their pledge to provide the Afghan people, particularly women and girls, with better security, more responsive governance, and sustainable economic development, Amnesty International said today in a briefing paper issued ahead of the International Conference in Support of Afghanistan being held on 12 June in Paris.
The US and other NATO states are supplying arms to Afghanistan that could be used for serious human rights violations, warns Amnesty International.
On the eve of International Women’s Day, governments and school officials around the world must take concrete action to end violence against girls, particularly inside schools.
Press release: Amnesty International called on NATO defence ministers as they meet in Lithuania to suspend all transfers of detainees from the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) to Afghan authorities on the grounds that detainees face substantial risk of torture and ill-treatment. The International community must engage more seriously in the reform of the detention sector in Afghanistan.
Former Guantánamo detainee Moazzam Begg reads a poem that he wrote while he was held at the US detention centre.
Riz Ahmed, the actor who appeared in the film "Road to Guantánamo", reads Jumah al-Dossari’s poem and Andrew Motion, poet laureate, discusses the work of Abdur Rahim Muslim Dost.
Despite consistent reports of torture and other ill-treatment by Afghanistan's intelligence service, members of the NATO-led forces continue to hand detainees over to their custody
