Washington, Aug 8 : Human Rights organisation Amnesty International has given rise to a controversy by launching a satirical video, which suggested that US President Barack Obama backs torture.

The organisation has created a YouTube channel, Amnesty TV, with comedy sketches, stunts, news and opinion.

The latest video magazine shows a clip of an interview in which Obama is asked why he did not close the US military detention centre at Guantanamo Bay.

His words are `cut up' to make him endorse torture.

A pledge to shut the camp was a `token gesture', he says. The clip ends with a `stop torture' message, the Independent reports.

Some YouTube viewers said they found the video inappropriate. One viewer said that any groups that aimed `to be respectable arbiters of information should try to be accurate'.

The clip is made by Cassetteboy, an internet film-maker notorious for re-editing scenes from The Apprentice and Dragon''s Den for satirical effect, the report said.

The 15-minute programme has an appearance from Vanessa Redgrave and a sketch featuring Misery Bear, where a toy bear is waterboarded after tweeting criticism of the Government.

Neil Boorman, editor of Amnesty TV, said that `it is perfectly legitimate to point out that Obama said he was going to close Guantanamo within a year and he hasn''t.'

He said `manipulating politicians'' words could be a powerful technique because they often dodged tough questions, so to hear them speak plainly and truthfully was refreshing'.

"If politicians really were that straightforward, the world would be a better place ... although Cassetteboy would be out of a job," he added. (ANI)