Amnesty International Group 15
Concord MA USA

AI Group 15 is the local voice of Amnesty International in Concord, MA USA, part of a worldwide campaign movement working to promote the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. Learn about us.

If you share our passion for protecting and defending human rights around the world, and here at home, Amnesty International's local group offers an effective way to help. We would be pleased to welcome you to any or all of its activities. Join us at our meeting (details) or check our calendar for all AI Group 15 upcoming events and directions.

Monthly meeting Tuesday, May 20, 7-9PM (3rd Tuesday of the month)
First Parish Church of Concord MA

At our meetings, we write letters on behalf of our own prisoners of conscience. We also write letters as a part of worldwide-coordinated "Urgent Action" cases, which address the plight of people around the world in immediate danger because of their ideas, and in some cases their non-violent work on behalf of those ideas. We work on death penalty cases and issues; Amnesty International has long opposed this form of punishment. When appropriate, we speak up on immigration cases in the United States in which political refugees have been denied their right of asylum, often after having been granted asylum by a federal judge. Meeting Details.

If you share our passion for protecting and defending human rights around the world, and here at home, Amnesty International offers an effective way to help. AI Group 15 would be pleased to welcome you to any or all of its activities. See the calendar. For more information, please contact our coordinator, Philippe Villers, 978-371-7400 or pvillers@igc.org. We, and millions around the world, need you.

Guantanamo  Project

AI Group 15's latest project is the release of the Uighurs in Guantanamo. Although the military has acknowledged their innocence, they have been imprisoned for the last 6 years.

• Destruction of CIA interrogation tapes may conceal government crimes - The destruction by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of videotapes of the interrogation of two high value detainees in 2002 amounts to obstruction of justice and concealment of evidence.
• Amnesty International Urges the U.S. Supreme Court to Reject Administration's Arguments - Amnesty International USA's executive director Larry Cox issued the following comments regarding the cases Boumediene v. Bush and Al Oadah v. United States currently before the United States Supreme Court
  
• Supreme Court should call government to account over Guantánamo detentions -
  Tomorrow the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in relation to the Guantánamo detentions on whether the Military Commissions Act of 2006 has unlawfully stripped the US courts of jurisdiction to consider habeas corpus petitions from alien "enemy combatants" held in US custody.
• AI's framework for ending illegal detention - parliamentary action

Thet Naung Soe freed!

The release of Thet Naung Soe who was adopted by Group 15 on Concord, MA, has been confirmed..  He is reported to be suffering from both physical and psychological problems, but is being looked after with the help of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners - Burma. Amnesty is checking to see if there is anything they can do for him now that he is out of prison. Learn more.

Amnesty News

Video: Amnesty's memorable moments of 2007.

Video: Bullet - the Execution. Your petitions are more powerful than you think. Thank you, AI France.

Group 15 Members: dues

AI Group 15 is self-funding through annual member dues which allow us to run events during the year such as our Annual Rights Evening and to make an annual contribution from our funds to Amnesty International. Please bring a $25.00 check payable to AI Group 15 to the next meeting or mail it to our treasurer. The dues are donated and collected on a volunteer basis, nobody will be turned aside due to inability to pay.