Amnesty International USA: Most Recent English News ReleasesAmnesty International USA is the US Section of Amnesty International, a worldwide human rights organization.USA: Time for real change as Supreme Court rules on Guantnamo detentions- June 13, 2008 The landmark judgment delivered on 12 June 2008 by the United States (US) Supreme Court in Boumediene v. Bush and al Odah v. United States ("Boumediene") constitutes a significant step towards the restoration of the rule of law as a foundation for counter-terrorism measures by the United States of America (USA). In its ruling, the court unreservedly affirmed that the right to challenge the lawfulness of one's detention in a court of law must be given effect to the foreign nationals...http://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR510612008&lang=e USA: James Corey Glass has right not to serve in Iraq- June 6, 2008 Amnesty International believes James Corey Glass to have a genuine conscientious objection to serving as a combatant in the US forces in Iraq, and would consider him to be a prisoner of conscience if imprisoned on his return to the USAhttp://www.amnestyusa.org/document.php?id=ENGAMR510572008&lang=e |