Amnesty International

Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization with the stated purpose of promoting all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. In particular, Amnesty International campaigns to free all prisoners of conscience; to ensure fair and prompt trials for political prisoners; to abolish the death penalty, torture, and other treatment of prisoners it regards as cruel; to end political killings and forced disappearances; and to oppose all human rights abuses, whether by governments or by other groups.

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• {{NamedNote|NewStatesman|1}} Khan's aside may have been partly inspired by a cover story a year earlier in the British weekly New Statesman, describing the system of extraordinary rendition as "America's Gulag".http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FQP/is_4688_133/ai_n6159185