On International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, 26 June, Amnesty International announces that it is intensifying its work against torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment by launching a campaign against torture and ill-treatment in the "war on terror".

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Amnesty International stressed the need for the USA to open up its detention centres all over the world to independent UN experts, after they expressed "deep regret" at the USA's failure to facilitate a visit to its 'war on terror' detainees. The organization pointed out the importance of independent monitoring in preventing torture and ill-treatment.

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Sunday June 26 is the United Nations International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture. The people of Sydney will have the chance to hear first-hand arguments against the use of torture in a forum drawing on the work of NSW Service for the Treatment and Rehabilitation of Torture and Trauma Survivors (STARTTS).

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Amnesty International condemns in the strongest possible terms the multiple bombings that have claimed an unconfirmed number of lives and seriously injured many more people in London today.

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Amnesty International Australia (AIA) members and supporters will be holding a vigil outside the Unites States Embassy in Canberra on American Independence Day, Monday 4 July.

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Amnesty International has written to Iraq's Interior Minister, Bayan Jabr Solagh, to call for a full investigation into the alleged torture of a group of men detained by Iraqi police on 10 July and the circumstances in which nine of them were suffocated to death after being confined in a police van or container.

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Amnesty International totally condemns the bomb attacks perpetrated on 23 July 2004 in the Egyptian Red Sea resort, Sharm el-Sheikh, which killed more than 80 people, most or all of them civilians, and injured at least 200 others. Most of the dead and injured were Egyptian civilians. At least eight foreign tourists were also killed.

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Amnesty International is concerned about the incident on 22 July 2005 in which plainclothes officers shot dead Jean Charles de Menezes, a Brazilian national who had been working in the UK for the last three years. Initial police statements stated that he was a suspect linked to the bombing incidents which have taken place in London, since over 50 people were killed in coordinated attacks on 7 July.

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Amnesty International today strongly condemned the killing by an armed group of two Algerian diplomats, Ali Belaroussi and Azzeddine Belkadi. The two were kidnapped on 21 July 2005 as they were leaving the Algerian Embassy in Baghdad by car. The armed group, al-Qa'ida of Jihad Organization in the Land of Two Rivers, led by Jordanian national Abu Mus'ab al-Zarqawi, claimed responsibility for the kidnapping and the killing of the two diplomats.

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