Amnesty International and The Road to Guantanamo

Human Rights are the rights to which every individual is entitled. Unfortunately, half the world will either never know what it means or they will never live to experience it.

A student gets suspended from school for starting an activist group in Iran, a woman in Pakistan gets stoned for being raped, a transgender in NewYork is humiliated in a bar and is arrested and later strip searched and assaulted at the police station.

These are just few stories that the Amnesty International strives to bring in front of people, hoping for a change. A.I. doesnt care about republicans or democrats or white or black or brown. All it cares about is humanity.

Since my blog cannot be complete without a movie.. a must watch movie on this topic would be "The Road to Guantanamo" once again based on a true life story.

It's the story of three Britons of Pakistani origin who go to Pakistan for their friends wedding and end up as prisoners in Guantanamo bay, Cuba, as Al-Qaeda suspects. The movie shows how these friends were denied their right to a lawyer and were kept there for three years.

When you watch the movie, you'll realize that it's not against the government. It's rather an attempt to illustrate the importance of human right.