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 Tuesday April 01, 2003 16:50 by ammnesty intntl
 Since the military action by the USA, UK and their allies began in Iraq on 20 March, a backlash against certain human rights has been witnessed around the world. These include: attacks on the rights to freedom of expression and assembly; excessive use of force by police against anti-war demonstrators; restriction of asylum rights. With the spotlight focused on the theatre of war, such abuses of human rights have been largely ignored. The following are just a few of many examples recorded by Amnesty International. Amnesty International urges all governments to respect the right of people to express peacefully their opinions, and to refrain from using the war in Iraq as a pretext for curtailing or abusing fundamental human rights. full story/report here: http://web.amnesty.org/pages/irq-engmde140572003
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Jump To Comment: 1 2Shamnesty is trying top get ernst zundel jailed for what he said and these tossers are asupposed to be for human rights?
Comment above is almost certainly by holocaust-denying neo-nazi Brian Wallace from Passage West in Cork. The miserable bollocks must be running out of places to post.