LONDON (AFP) — The British branch of Amnesty International on Tuesday launched an Internet media campaign to combat rights violations in the so-called "war on terror".
The "Unsubscribe" campaign, so named after the web vernacular for removing oneself from a mailing list, aims to encourage "people who are opposed to terrorism and human rights abuses in the 'war on terror' to do what internet users do with unwanted emails -- to Unsubscribe," it said in a statement.
It calls for individuals to reject "the false choice between terrorism on the one hand and abuse of human rights on the other," the London-based human-rights group's UK Director Kate Allen said in the statement.
The campaign is set to last at least two years, and will includes a newly-created website -- www.unsubscribe-me.org -- along with billboard posters and online films.
Among the posters are photos depicting a slew of abuses, including a prisoner being attacked by a dog at the infamous Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and detainees at the United States' controversial naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Along with London, the posters will be put up in other large cities, such as Birmingham, Glasgow, Belfast, Cardiff, Leeds and Manchester.
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