Tonight, Amnesty International Activists to Show Their Support for Accountability...

Tonight, Amnesty International Activists to Show Their Support for
Accountability for Past Abuses During President's 100 Days Press Conference

Small Group of Human Rights Activists Will Demonstrate in Front of the White
House

Tonight, a small group of Amnesty International activists will demonstrate
from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House
during President Obama's 100 days press conference urging him to push for
accountability for past detainee abuses.

(Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20081014/AILOGO)

This is in addition to tomorrow morning's march (Thursday, April 30) at which
Amnesty International, Witness Against Torture and other activists will march
from the Capitol to the White House to again show their support for a
comprehensive, independent and impartial commission to investigate the past
abuses in the Bush administration's war on terror.

EVENT: Protest calling for accountability for war on terror abuses
WHO: Amnesty International activists
DATE:Wednesday, April 29, 2009
TIME: 6:30-8:30 p.m.
LOCATION: North front of the White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C.

Amnesty International is a Nobel Peace Prize-winning grassroots activist
organization with more than 2.2 million supporters, activists and volunteers
in more than 150 countries campaigning for human rights worldwide. The
organization investigates and exposes abuses, educates and mobilizes the
public, and works to protect people wherever justice, freedom, truth and
dignity are denied.

For more information about tonight's protest, please contact the AIUSA media
office at 202-544-0200 x302 or e-mail lspann@aiusa.org.

For more information about Amnesty International, visit www.amnestyusa.org.

CONTACT: AIUSA media office, +1-202-544-0200 x302, lspann@aiusa.org

/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- April 29/

SOURCE Amnesty International