| September 14, 2006 | -
Amnesty International accused Hezbollah of war crimes.
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The New York Times
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| January 10, 2006 | -
Amnesty International released reports detailing even more torture at Guantánamo Bay.
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Forbes.com
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| May 31, 2005 | - President George W. Bush said that allegations made by Amnesty International, claiming that the prison at Guantánamo Bay is a “gulag,” were absurd. Bush accused Amnesty of listening to “people that have been trained in some instances to disassemble--that means not tell the truth.”
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Whitehouse.gov
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| May 30, 2005 | -
Amnesty International released a report calling the prison camp at Guantánamo Bay “the gulag of our time.” General Richard Myers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the prison camp was “a model facility” and pointed out that 1,300 Korans had been handed out at the prison in the last four years.
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BBC News
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| January 17, 2005 | -
Thai officials were planning to set up a webcam in a notorious Bangkok prison to broadcast prisoners' daily lives and the moments before their executions as a deterrent against drug crimes, but Amnesty International pointed out that most criminals are poor and without Internet access.
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BBC
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| February 25, 2004 | - Two Guantánamo prisoners were formally charged with conspiracy to commit terrorism. Amnesty International and other human rights groups were told that they will not be permitted to attend the military tribunals, because there just aren't enough seats.
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New York Times
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| November 12, 2002 | -
Amnesty International accused Israeli security forces of committing war crimes during offensives in Jenin and Nablus last spring.
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| October 1, 2002 | -
As far as I'm concerned, these people are child-killers.” Amnesty International reported that 236 Palestinian and 61 Israeli children have been killed in the fighting since September 2000.
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| September 10, 2002 | -
Amnesty International said that the “forcible transfer” of Palestinians under Israeli occupation was a war crime under the Fourth Geneva Convention.
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| April 30, 2002 | -
Israel refused to allow a United Nations fact-finding mission to travel to the Jenin refugee camp to investigate allegations of war crimes.
Yehuda Lancry, Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, told Secretary General Kofi Annan that the mission, if it proceeds, would be permitted to gather facts but not to make any “observations” about the facts.
Amnesty International said it had “credible evidence” that war crimes were committed in the Jenin camp.
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| December 4, 2001 | - Northern Alliance soldiers, aided by American and British troops, killed hundreds of Taliban prisoners who tried to escape from a makeshift prison in an old fortress. Amnesty International and other human-rights groups called for an investigation, saying it appeared that war crimes had been committed.
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| July 10, 2001 | -
China executed more people in the last three months than the rest of the world did in the last three years, Amnesty International reported.
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| October 24, 2000 | -
Amnesty International said that torture was increasingly popular worldwide.
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