Amnesty Urges Nations to Prevent Transfers

Amnesty International urged European governments Wednesday to prevent their airports from being used by the U.S. for secret transfers of terror suspects to countries where they might be tortured, and called for compensation for prisoners who say they were spirited through the region illegally.

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Images of Zimbabwe Settlement Released

Amnesty International on Wednesday released the first satellite images of the rubble of an informal settlement in Zimbabwe that had been home to 30,000 of the country's poorest people.

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For 20 Years, Immigrants' Status Stalled

Luis Orozco was among the first in line nearly 20 years ago when federal lawmakers offered U.S. citizenship to nearly 3 million illegal immigrants. Today, he has a wife, two daughters and a car — but he still is not an American citizen.

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Some Immigrants Fear Guest Worker Program

Martin Saucedo, an illegal immigrant from Michoacan, Mexico, would like to participate in a guest worker program like one Congress is considering as a part of sweeping immigration reform.

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Amnesty: Torture Allegations Undercut Work

Allegations of torture by U.S. agents and military personnel in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay have undercut the work of human rights workers worldwide, said the new leader of Amnesty International USA.

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Amnesty: 20,000 People Facing Execution

Executions around the world fell by more than 1,500 last year, as a growing number of nations continued to turn against the death penalty, Amnesty International said Thursday.

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Analysis: Immigration a Contentious Debate

In the debate over immigration, amnesty is an epithet, hurled by one side, dodged at all costs by the other. The scarlet letter "A," one congressman calls it.

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Nepal Offers Amnesty, Cash to Surrender

Nepal's royal government offered amnesty, cash, jobs and land Monday to communist rebels who surrender in the next three months.

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Amnesty Calls for Closing Guantanamo Camp

Amnesty International called Monday for closing the U.S. Guantanamo prison for terror suspects and the release of nine British residents the rights group says are held by U.S. authorities at the Cuban camp.

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Amnesty nets over 100,000 knives

"More than 100,000 weapons were handed to police in England, Scotland and Wales during a national knife amnesty." That's a lot of freaking knives

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Clinton Speaks Out on Illegal Workers

Former President Clinton told one of the nation's largest Latino civil rights groups Saturday that the conservative wing of the Republican Party is using the immigration issue to divide Congress and the nation.

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Op-Ed: Sabotaging Peace in Iraq

The details of the so-called 'amnesty' deal show that the United States is not serious about forging peace in Iraq.

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Insurgent Co-Optation

From the article: The insurgency continues, and it is not going to be defeated militarily. But that does not mean we lose. Insurgencies can be undone by co-optation. And that is precisely the strategy of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

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First they came for the guns. Then they came for the knives.

If a government manages to ban private ownership of guns, will they next come after knives? That seems to be the case in the UK, in some parts of which it is illegal to even carry a knife.

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Iraqi amnesty: histrionics and reality - Editorials/Op-Ed - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper

Congress reaction to possible Iraqi Amnesty

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Interview with Iraqi Prime Minister

Nouri al-Maliki: "Regarding the amnesty, in fact it does not include those who killed Iraqis or even those who killed multinational soldiers from multinational forces. Those soldiers came to Iraq under international agreement to help Iraq.

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Iraq PM unveils unity proposals

Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has presented a national reconciliation plan to parliament aimed at stemming sectarian tensions and violence. The 24-point plan offers an amnesty to some insurgents, but not those from groups who have targeted civilians.

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Maliki presents reconciliation plan for Iraq

From the page: -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki presented a national reconciliation plan to parliament on Sunday which included the offer of an amnesty to prisoners in a bid to ease a Sunni insurgency and tackle sectarian violence. --

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Insurgent groups may be offered amnesty in new peace deal for Iraq

The Iraqi government could offer an amnesty to members of the insurgency, as part of an effort to bring about peace, as early as this weekend. Part of that peace plan will include a timeline for the withdrawal of foreign troops and a halt to US operations.

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Iraq plans insurgent amnesty

The Iraqi government has crafted a far-reaching amnesty plan for insurgents, officials close to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said, even as guerrillas killed at least 34 Iraqis in a barrage of bombs and rockets in the capital and the U.S.

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Maliki Aide Who Discussed Amnesty Leaves Job

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's office on Thursday accepted the resignation of an aide who had told a reporter that Maliki was considering a limited amnesty that would likely include guerrillas who had attacked U.S. troops, the aide said.

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Specter falsely denied proposing amnesty for illegal eavesdropping

"In sum, Specter's legislation amends the provision of FISA which provides for criminal penalties, and then, astonishingly, makes those revisions retroactive all the way back to 1978 (when FISA was enacted).

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Amnesty In Iraq? Maybe It's Time to Leave

Mark Schmitt has a couple of questions about the Iraqi Prime Minister's plan to grant amnesty to insurgents who have killed Americans.

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Iraqi Govt. plan to pardon rebels who killed Americans

Keeping in view the deteriorating situation in Iraq and the volume of killings of the innocent people along with Americans, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Wednesday has chalked out a novel plan to bring peace in the State by checking the general killings including controlling  …

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Iraq Amnesty Plan May Cover Attacks On U.S. Military

Why not include the US soldiers in the amnesty? It would certainly simplify things.

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Zimbabwe: Satellite images provide shocking evidence of the obliteration of a community - Amnesty International

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Will the GOP Commit Suicide?

Can the House Republicans hold out against calls to pass the Senate's version of immigration reform? Will Speaker Dennis Hastert keep his pledge never to bring legislation to the floor that doesn't have support of a majority of the House Republican caucus? Will the White Ho …

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Amnesty now a mouthpiece for hate-America left

Amnesty International looks more and more like an American anti-war group instead of a watchdog for the world.

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Irrepressible - Amnesty's Campaign for a Free Internet

The internet, for all its flaws, is an amazing tool for promoting human rights and reporting oppression. However, several governments have employed the services of large IT corporations to monitor and supress dissent on the internet.

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Burma's human rights record remains one of the worst: Amnesty - Text Only

The rights group Amnesty International says Burma has one of the world's worst human rights records. In its annual report, Amnesty cites the jailing of opposition politicians, forced labour, land confiscations and abuse of ethnic minorities.

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Doublespeak undermines war on terrorism: Amnesty

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Amnesty Report Slams West

The United States, Britain and other European countries were criticised in a report by Amnesty International for violations such as advocating torture, imprisoning thousands of people without charge and eroding the rule of law in the fight against terrorism.

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Illegals granted Social Security

The Senate voted yesterday to allow illegal aliens to collect Social Security benefits based on past illegal employment -- even if the job was obtained through forged or stolen documents.

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GOP in Danger of Tipping Point on Immigration

Many of our politicians are suffering from an inability (or refusal) to call things by their proper names. They avoid using terms like "legal" and "illegal" and they avoid honestly discussing the nature of the illegal immigration problem and its costs to taxpayers.

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