Since it`s inception Amnesty International has been known to be fighting the good fight for the defenseless since 1961.
For a while now AI has been criticized by the like of Alan Dershowitz (
here, and
here for examples) for its Anti-Western bias, especially towards
Israel and the US.
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During the year, Amnesty issued 48 publications critical of Israel, compared to 35 for Iran, 2 for Saudi Arabia, and only 7 for Syria. Many of the attacks directed at Israel took place during the war with Hezbolla, but this terror group and state-within-a-state also got relatively little attention from Amnesty.
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"Guantanamo has become the gulag of our time," Amnesty Secretary General Irene Khan said as the London-based group launched its annual report. Amnesty International called for the camp to be closed.
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Now they are firing at
Canada for deporting of war criminals and human rights violators. AI wrote an open letter to the Government
detailing their concerns.
Immigration Jason Kenny, fires back with an open letter of his own.
NICE!
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I must confess that my first reaction upon reading your open letter to Minister Toews and myself was one of surprise and joy. For your organization to muster its formidable powers of suasion against the orderly and innoxious proceedings of the Canadian immigration system must mean that the world’s most truculent regimes have discharged their last political prisoners and advocates of democracy are free to march in the streets of Tehran and Pyongyang. I have since learned this is not the case, leaving me puzzled as to why Amnesty International (AI) would waste its time and resources opposing the legal deportation of war criminals and serious human rights violators from Canada.
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