Which jailers would you prefer?
I read the WSJ article but don't remember that Amnesty International helped Shakir.
Amnesty should be declared to be a Foreign Terrorist Organization with all appropriate sanctions applied.
Nope!! Forcibly move their headquarters to Gitmo. Any individual resisting the move should be severely beaten and then placed in an ambulance driven by Ted Kennedy.
Did I hear someone say Amnesty International? The Secretary General is a MUSLIM!
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Irene Khan - Biography
Irene Zubaida Khan joined Amnesty International as the organization’s seventh Secretary General in August 2001.
Taking the helm in Amnesty International as the first woman, the first Asian and the first Muslim to guide the world’s largest human rights organization, Irene brought a new perspective to the organization. As an individual, she brought experience and enthusiasm for putting people at the heart of policy.
Irene took up the leadership of Amnesty International in its 40th anniversary year as the organization began a process of change and renewal to address the complex nature of contemporary human rights violations, and confronted the challenging developments in the wake of the attacks of 11 September.
In her first year in office, Irene reformed AI’s response to crisis situations, personally leading high level missions to Pakistan during the bombing of Afghanistan, to Israel/Occupied Territories just after the Israeli occupation of Jenin, and to Colombia before the Presidential elections in May 2003. Deeply concerned about violence against women, she called for better protection of women’s human rights in meetings with President Musharraf of Pakistan, President Lahoud of Lebanon and Prime Minister Khaleda Zia of Bangladesh. She has initiated a process of consultations with women activists to design a global campaign by Amnesty International against violence on women.
Irene has been keen to draw attention to hidden human rights violations. In Australia, she drew attention to the plight of asylum seekers in detention. In Burundi, she met with victims of massacres and urged President Buyoya and other parties to the conflict to end the cycle of human rights abuse. In Bulgaria, she led a campaign to end discrimination of those suffering from mental disabilities.
Interested in working directly with people to change their lives, Irene helped to found the development organization, Concern Universal, in 1977, and began her work as a human rights activist with the International Commission of Jurists in 1979.
Irene joined the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in 1980, and worked in a variety of positions at Headquarters and in field operations to promote the international protection of refugees. From 1991-95 she was Senior Executive Officer to Mrs. Sadako Ogata, then UN High Commissioner for Refugees. She was appointed as the UNHCR Chief of Mission in India in 1995, the youngest UNHCR country representative at that time, and in 1998 headed the UNHCR Centre for Research and Documentation. She led the UNHCR team in Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia during the Kosovo crisis in 1999, and was appointed Deputy Director of International Protection later that year.
Irene studied law at the University of Manchester and Harvard Law School, specialising in public international law and human rights. She is the recipient of several academic awards, a Ford Foundation Fellowship, and the Pilkington "Woman of the Year" Award 2002.
Has any of our tax dollars been given to this Org?
The FBI needs to investigate the funding of this group, Human Rights Watch and Planned Parenthood, as well... oh, and let us NOT forget, that hideous ACLU.
NewsMax is a joke. "might be in Guantanamo" LOL. Yeah, I am sure Jordan was influenced by AI and not the United States. NewsMax is the best at spinning no news into 'news' with a creative headline.
I think AI are scum, but this claim seems a bit ridiculous.
The 1993 bombers were caught a couple days after the event. Why would this knucklehead still be carrying around the phone numbers of the safe houses they lived in 9 years earlier? Nostalgia? Does he not ever empty his pockets?
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The time is short. The reasons are many.
Amnesty International needs to be expunged from the United States. Any member who remains on our shores needs arrested, detained and charged with treason. If I'm not mistaken, we can hang for treason.
They let mugabe kill, they let killings occur in Darfur, they ignore pretty much anything that doesn't involve the United States. They have become persona non grata.
Clean 'em out. Clean 'em out now.
I loved the episode in 24 this season when the terroist Jack Bauer picked up had Amnesty Int'l (not that but close)on speed dial.
Which jailers would you prefer?
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I just checked Amnesty Int'l's web site. They have reports of human rights abuses from all over the globe reaching back a couple of years for many countries. I checked their catalogue of human rights violations, real and imagined for three countries, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.
I was wondering how firm AI was in standing up for religious freedom. I looks very much as if AI does not believe in religious freedom, and if murder, torture and harrassment occur with anti-religious motive, then AI does not seem to bother with mentioning it. In Saudi Arabia, AI is very concerned that some al-Qaeda associated people are in prison without charges and "perhaps" undergoing torture. The recent crackdown and jailing of Christians is not mentioned.
In Indonesia, AI lists several complaints that accused murderers are faced with the death penalty and may not have had full proper legal representation. The 22 Christians murdered in a church burning on Sulawesi last month is not mentioned.
In Egypt, religious persecution does not exist, or at least is unworthy of mention to go by AI's reporting of human rights abuses.
If someone wanted to spend a day or two researching this fully, I believe they would find that AI systematically ignores religious persecution and violence. And you have to wonder why.
The article's missing just a slightly pertinent fact here. Where does it say that AI was calling for his release?
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