Torture Exclusive: For 21 years, the detainee has been in US custody without charge, tortured and sexually humiliated, with no prospect for release Warning: the images and descriptions of torture […]
OPINIONOPINION, Opinions|Russia-Ukraine war It’s good that the ICC has charged Putin with war crimes. But what about the blood on the hands of the US and Israel? Published On 20 […]
By Joel GunterBBC NewsPublished11 hours agoShare Related Topics War in Afghanistan (2001-present) Mansoor Adayfi knew next to nothing about Serbia when a delegation from its government came to visit him […]
Peter Oborne 10 January 2022 15:22 UTC | Last update: 7 hours 51 mins agoThe West’s ‘war on terror’ has been framed as a mortal struggle against a barbarous, irrational Islam hell-bent on the […]
BY ANADOLU AGENCY CHICAGO AMERICAS NOV 01, 2021 10:31 PM GMT+3The United States flag flies inside of Joint Task Force Guantanamo Camp VI at the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, March […]
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Amandla Thomas-Johnson 22 August 2019 Mohamedou Salahi says he is being blocked from having a passport as US does not want him to travel the world and recount his 14 […]
if the United States will not allow its own people to be subject to the rule of law in such cases, how can others be held to account? Ahmed Rabbani […]
Source: The Guardian By Julian Borger in Guantánamo Bay Techniques included waterboarding and other forms of torture Hopes that trial will cast more light on scale of program The two […]
A week at Camp Justice finds proceedings slowed by illness, disputes, and legacy of torture Julian Borger in Guantánamo Bay Sat 2 Feb 2019 A Pentagon-approved sketch showing Khalid […]
On a human level, it is a place of misery and despair. And on a larger level, it is a monument to the death of the rule of law Eric […]
By AFP – Jan 18,2017 – JORDAN TIMES In this February 2, 2002 file photo, a detainee from Afghanistan is carried on a stretcher before being interrogated by military officials at the detention facility Camp X-Ray on Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base in Cuba (AP photo) WASHINGTON — […]
Source: The Guardian By Spencer Ackerman As Barack Obama prepares to visit Saudi Arabia, the Saudi royal family has taken custody of nine longtime Guantánamo Bay detainees, bringing Obama closer to […]
Saturday marks twelve years since the first detainees arrived at Guantanamo Bay prison on January 11, 2002. On the anniversary US human rights activists marched to the White House demanding the facility’s closure. This time, the annual Day of Action to shut Guantanamo down comes as quite a number of […]
By Kay Campbell | kcampbell@al.com HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Terry Holdbrooks Jr., 29, wears the beard of a bald Amish guy, the tattoos of a punk kid, and the twitchy alertness […]
Source: BBC Eighty-four of the 166 prisoners held at the US-run Guantanamo Bay facility are now on hunger strike, US military officials have said. The prisoners are protesting against their indefinite detention. Most are being held without charge. Sixteen of the 84 prisoners are being force-fed and five are being […]
Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Couch truly believed Mohamedou Ould Slahi was guilty. He also believed that Slahi’s interrogators had broken the law — tormenting him physically and sexually, and threatening the gang-rape of his mother. Stuart Couch had been waiting nearly two years to start this job. He had been waiting […]
It has been three years since the US government approved a list of Guantanamo Bay detainees for release. On Friday, the names of those 55 inmates who had been authorized for transfer were made public. The Department of Justice stated that there was no longer a “need to withhold” the […]
THE second attempt by US authorities to try one of several alleged masterminds of 9/11 Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-accused is a farce reminiscent of the trial of […]