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- From: junikka@schaefer.math.wisc.edu (Jari Junikka)
- Newsgroups: soc.motss
- Subject: Re: Amnesty International
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.072413.17733@schaefer.math.wisc.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 07:24:13 GMT
- Article-I.D.: schaefer.1992Nov17.072413.17733
- References: <mjh4.721934451@crux1.cit.cornell.edu>
- Organization: Univ. of Wisconsin Dept. of Mathematics
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- mjh4@crux1.cit.cornell.edu (Mark Jonathan Handel) writes:
-
- >Does anyone know if Amnesty International recognizes sexual
- >preference as one of their "protected" rights - I remember
- >hearing something that the global organization, based in
- >London does not, while the US organization does.
-
- >There are some posters around here that claim Amnesty does
- >recognize people who are arrested on the basis of their
- >sexual preference as prisoners of consciounce (sp?), and
- >I wanted to check up on that.
-
- Yep. The International Council Meeting in Tokyo (if my memory
- serves right) last year changed the mandate of the Amnesty International
- to include sexual orientation. The mandate currently is something like
- (from my memory..)
-
- Amnesty International advocates the unconditional release
- of prisoners of conscience. A prisoner of conscience is
- a person who has been arrested due to their political opinions, religious beliefs,
- nationality, ethic origin, language, sexual orientation, and who has not USED OR
- ADVOCATED the use of violence.
-
- Amnesty International works for a fair and prompt trial for all political
- prisoners.
-
- Amnesty International opposes torture and death penalty in all cases
- without exception.
-
-
- jari
-