Amnesty International attacks Blair....
Amnesty International has accused the British Government of using the war on terror to force through measures which cause "serious human rights violations". The charity condemned Tony Blair for introducing "control orders" for terror suspects. It said yesterday that the system of house arrest was "tantamount to the executive 'charging', 'trying' and 'sentencing' a person" without a fair trial.
The report accused British and US forces in Iraq of breaching international human rights with the internment without charge of over 10,000 people. The annual report said "grave" abuses in Afghanistan and Iraq cast a shadow over human rights "as torture and terror feed off each other in a vicious cycle".
Kate Allen,
director of Amnesty International UK, said the report marked the first occasion when her group had not been able to congratulate the UK on its work on torture.
The Independent, 24/5/06
....and compares Bush to Pinochet
Amnesty International says President George Bush's tactics in his fight against terrorists have made the United States comparable to Augusto Pinochet's Chile and Hafez Assad's Syria in its acceptance of torture and disregard of legal restraints.
In its annual report of human rights conditions around the world, Amnesty included the US alongside China, Russia, Columbia, Uzbekistan and others as states that claim anti-terrorism to justify gross violations.
The Age, Australia, 24/5/06
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