Arab Spring
‘I Wanted To Die’: Syria’s Torture Survivors Speak Out - 14 March 2012
On 14 March 2012, Amnesty International released a report entitled ‘I wanted to die’: Syria’s torture survivors speak out, which documents the accounts of people who were detained and tortured in Syria since March 2011 and were interviewed by Amnesty International in Jordan in February 2012.
The accounts provide disturbing evidence of both the wide range of torture methods devised and used by Syria’s security forces, and the consistent patterns of abuse being perpetrated by various security forces across Syria.
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.
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.