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SLUG: 2-303733 Melton / Amnesty Report
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DATE=5/28/03 TYPE=CORRESPONDENT REPORT TITLE=AMNESTY REPORT NUMBER=2-303733 BYLINE=MARISSA MELTON DATELINE=WASHINGTON CONTENT= VOICED AT: INTRO: An international human rights organization says the U-S war on terrorism has aggravated a bad human rights situation in many parts of the world. V-O-A's Marissa Melton reports. TEXT: Amnesty International's annual report on human rights says the struggle against terrorism in 2002 resulted in governments undermining human rights in the name of national security. In addition, says Bill Schulz, director of Amnesty International USA, the organization accuses the United States has spent billions to rectify human rights abuses in Iraq, while paying insufficient attention to them elsewhere. ///SCHULZ ACT/// It is not acceptable to win freedom for one at the expense of another. ///END ACT/// Amnesty also accuses the United States of human rights violations for holding some 600 terror suspects at the Guantanamo Bay military base in Cuba. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer says the allegation is without merit. ///FLEISCHER ACT/// The prisoners in Guantanamo are being treated humanely, they are receiving medical care, they are receiving food, they are receiving far better treatment than they received in the life they were living previously. ///END ACT/// The report also highlights human rights abuses in Colombia, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Nepal, Russia, and other countries in Central Asia. (SIGNED) NEB/MKM/MEM/FC |
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