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BBC - Powerful governments and armed groups have been deliberately
fomenting fear to erode human rights worldwide, a report by Amnesty
International says. The group's annual report on human rights says
policies like those linked to the "war on terror" are creating a more
polarized and dangerous world.
- Some 24,000 people on death row, 3,861 people sentenced to death,
1,591 prisoners executed
- 102 nations had cases of torture by state authorities, 1,245 rendition
flights in Europe's air space, 18,000 people held without trial by
coalition troops in Iraq, 400 detainees held at Guantanamo Bay
"The politics of fear are fuelling a downward spiral of human rights
abuses in which no right is sacrosanct and no person safe," Amnesty
International's Secretary General Irene Khan said ahead of the launch of
the report.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6681437.stm
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BBC - Powerful governments and armed groups have been deliberately
fomenting fear to erode human rights worldwide, a report by Amnesty
International says. The group's annual report on human rights says
policies like those linked to the "war on terror" are creating a more
polarized and dangerous world.
- Some 24,000 people on death row, 3,861 people sentenced to death,
1,591 prisoners executed
- 102 nations had cases of torture by state authorities, 1,245 rendition
flights in Europe's air space, 18,000 people held without trial by
coalition troops in Iraq, 400 detainees held at Guantanamo Bay
"The politics of fear are fuelling a downward spiral of human rights
abuses in which no right is sacrosanct and no person safe," Amnesty
International's Secretary General Irene Khan said ahead of the launch of
the report.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6681437.stm
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