By Sharon Schmickle |
Why would people climb into full-body jumpsuits on the last hot day in August, pull black cloth bags over their heads and march more than a mile in the noon sun?
“What is going on at Guantanamo flies in the face of everything our form of government and the principles of the United [...]
By VOA News
Pakistan’s parliament has demanded the immediate repatriation of a Pakistani woman held in the United States on charges of trying to kill U.S. federal agents in Afghanistan.
Aafia Siddiqui, a U.S.-educated scientist, was detained by U.S. forces in Afghanistan last month. U.S. authorities extradited Siddiqui to New York this month to face charges of [...]
Arash and Kamiar Alaei, two physician brothers who have been pionneers of HIV/AIDS care and harm reduction in Iran, were arrested on June 21 and 22, respectively. It was announced this week that they are being charged with “plotting a velvet revolution.” Kamiar is a former student at Harvard School of Public Health and a [...]
Charles Mercieca, Ph. D.
The New Webster Dictionary of the English Language describes enemy as “one hostile to another, one who hates another, an adversary, a hostile force, army, fleet, or the like.” The same dictionary describes combat as “to fight with, to oppose by force, to contend against, or to resist.” Combatant is then described [...]
Joseph Logan
There are 360 children among the detainees, down from 500 in May. Many have been held for months, and some for more than a year, often without access to the educational services provided to children at one MNF facility. Those children referred to trial by the MNF are held at an Iraqi facility described [...]
By Andy Worthington, AlterNet
A military jury’s verdict on Wednesday in the first U.S. war crimes trial since World War Two — that Yemeni Guantánamo prisoner Salim Hamdan is guilty of material support for terrorism, but not guilty of terrorism itself — was the culmination of two weeks of proceedings that provided some extraordinary insights into [...]
By rasha al qahtani
BAHRAIN human rights activists and their Saudi counterparts will soon meet to discuss efforts in the release of two Bahraini men, who are being held without charge there.
The Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society (BHRWS) said that the Saudi Human Rights Commission will help follow up the cases of Abdulraheem Al Murbati and [...]
By Guled Mohamed
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Muslim leaders in Kenya accused a senior government official on Wednesday of blocking the release of a presidential report on injustices against their community, a charge the government immediately denied.
The leaders said Cabinet Secretary and Public Service Head Francis Muthaura had suppressed the findings of the study, which was ordered [...]
Despite grant of bail, government continues to hold him
Hanover, VA - July 27, 2008 -
More than two weeks after being granted bond by a federal judge, Sami Al-Arian is still being held in prison. In fact, Dr. Al-Arian is now being subjected to the worst treatment by prison officials since his stay in Coleman Federal Penitentiary in Florida [...]
By Moazzam Begg - Cageprisoners.com
His hair has grown, his voice sounds a little deeper and his wounds appear to have healed somewhat. But what isn’t clear from the first ever Guantánamo interrogation video to be released for public consumption is that Omar Khadr is blind in one eye.
The Bagram airbase lies some 30miles [...]
Posted by Katrina Vanden Heuvel, The Nation
Obama is showing sound thinking on Iraq, so why does he continue to talk about escalating the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan?
If elected, Senator Barack Obama has the possibility of reengaging with a world that seeks an America which isn’t defined by Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo — [...]
A picture of Abdulraheem al Murbati is held by his brother, Abdullah. The prisoner’s son Osama looks on. Mazen Mahdi / The National
Manama // A Bahraini man held without trial in Saudi Arabia since 2003 on suspicion of links to al Qa’eda has gone “missing”, according to his family who have not heard from him [...]
By RASHA AL QAHTANI
BAHRAIN human rights activists and their Saudi counterparts are trying to track down the whereabouts of Abdulraheem Al Murbati, who was last being held without charge in a Saudi prison. The Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society (BHRWS) said the Saudi Human Rights Commission would request the Interior Ministry there to provide them [...]
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON (IPS) - On the eve of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, a bipartisan group of some 200 religious leaders and former top U.S. national security and military officers launched a campaign for a presidential order to outlaw torture and cruel and inhumane treatment of all detainees.
The campaign, [...]
Where: Trafalgar Square, in front of the National Gallery
When: 3 pm, Sunday 15 June
Who: Reprieve Director Clive Stafford Smith, former Guantánamo prisoners, Barney the Dinosaur and other special guests
On Sunday 15 June, US President George W. Bush is visiting London as part of his valedictory world tour, and will be having tea with the Queen [...]
Recently, a young soldier did not buckle. Sergeant Matthis Chiroux, a 4-year veteran from Alabama, who served in Afghanistan as a photojournalist, made his announcement at the capitol: He would not report for Iraq duty for constitutional reasons, and he would remain in the U.S. and face any charges the government would make against him. Bolstered by support from fellow veterans, he made a statement which should inspire all who value the constitution and principles of our nation’s founders.
By Frida Berrigan, AlterNet
Protesters were convicted of “unlawful free speech” for peaceful demonstrations on behalf of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
Thirty-four Americans arrested at the Supreme Court on January 11, 2008 were found guilty after a three-day trial which began on Tuesday, May 27th in D.C. Superior Court. The defendants represented themselves, mounting a spirited defense [...]
The wife of a controversial Muslim cleric deported to Tunisia in October is protesting in front of the Parliament Buildings in an effort to push the federal government to allow his return to Canada.
Nancy-Ann Adams said she is struggling
to care for three children on her own.
(CBC)
Nancy-Ann Adams arrived on Parliament Hill Monday with [...]
Late last month, the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General issued a positive report on the FBI’s involvement in detainee interrogations in Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay and Iraq.I applaud the OIG’s recognition of a handful of career Justice attorneys and FBI officials who challenged abusive interrogation techniques - and warned correctly that torture would [...]
By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI
After just five days in Iraq, a bullet from rebel militia fighters confined Tomas Young to a wheelchair in 2004. Since his return, the Northland native has become a nationally known anti-war activist, exposing the ugly reality of partial paralysis and the human toll of the Iraq conflict in “Body of War,” a [...]
To my precious supporters,
I am left with few words to express my gratitude for your many heartfelt messages of unity which have given me hope for a nation and a people that was all but lost in my once bitter heart.
I have drawn so much strength this past week from the thousands of you who’ve [...]
WASHINGTON, DC – Detainees at the U. S. Military Prison in Guantánamo will finally get their day in court on May 27 – Superior Court, in Washington DC.
That is when 35 Americans from cities and towns across the country will go on trial for a protest at the U. S. Supreme Court on January 11, [...]
(CBS) The refugee crisis in Iraq is among the biggest humanitarian emergencies in the world. Millions of Iraqis have fled the war, many marked for death because they worked for the United States. They were translators, office workers, many other things, but now the enemy has branded them as collaborators.
As correspondent Scott Pelley reports, one [...]
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PDT BERKELEY — Some 50 protesters, clad in orange jumpsuits and black hoods to emulate the infamous photos of prisoners in Iraq, picketed UC Berkeley’s law school graduation ceremony Saturday, demanding that the university fire Professor John Yoo for his authorship of the Bush administration’s policies on torture.
“We want to see [...]
Senator Bond (R-MO) intends to offer an Amendment in the Senate that purports to “ban harsh interrogation techniques.” In actuality, his Amendment is full of loopholes.
Rather than ban torture by U.S. intelligence agencies outright, this proposed amendment would offer a “compromise” that would purport to ban only [...]
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