San Francisco
Lee Heidhues 3.5.2025
This afternoon Liz and I, on our way home after a meeting in North Beach, walked by the 333 Pine Street skyscraper in which California Senator Alex Padilla has a local office. Outside during the rush hour on a cold windy afternoon a hardy group from Amnesty International was campaigning to CLOSE GUANTANAMO.
We spoke with several Amnesty International campaigners who have been advocating for the closure of this American incarceration facility in Cuba which has detained, tortured and abused detainees since its opening in 2002 following the 9/11 attacks.
Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says it has more than ten million members and supporters around the world.[1] The stated mission of the organization is to campaign for “a world in which every person enjoys all of the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international human rights instruments.”[4] The organization has played a notable role on human rights issues due to its frequent citation in media and by world leaders.[5][6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_International
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