Six Years of Illegal Detentions

On the 11th of January, the sixth anniversary of the US detention centre at Guantánamo, thousands of Amnesty International members and supporters took action around the world calling on the US government to end illegal detentions at Guantánamo and elsewhere.

This anniversary is not just about Guantánamo. The detentions there are only one part of the unlawful detention policies and practices that the US government has adopted since 11 September 2001 in the name of counter-terrorism and national security. These include secretly transferring detainees between countries (“renditions”), holding them in secret detention sites and subjecting detainees to interrogation techniques and conditions that amount to torture or other ill-treatment.

Read the full article here