WASHINGTON - April 29 - 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.

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.