Mohamed Jawad was a minor when he was taken to Guantanamo Bay in 2002. Major David Frakt has been working very very hard on Mohamed’s behalf. He has put together an action that he believes will work. It will take only a few minutes.
This link contains the talking points for a letter. Please do write! [...]
Was one of the youngest prisoners at Guantánamo rushed to court by the Bush administration for political reasons?
By Jo Becker, children’s rights advocacy director, published in Salon.com
GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — One of the youngest detainees at Guantánamo Bay, a 23-year-old Afghan named Mohammed Jawad , spent two days in a courtroom here last week [...]
PRESS RELEASE
Aafia Siddiqui claims she was held by the US in Bagram for years
Cageprisoners has received new information that Aafia Siddiqui was held for years in Bagram Airbase. According to her lawyer, Elaine Whitfield Sharp,
“We do know she was at Bagram for a long time. It was a long time. According to my client [...]
OMAR EL AKKAD
OTTAWA — Omar Khadr’s U.S. military defence lawyer will try this month to have charges against his client tossed out – launching what may be the final legal broadside against the U.S. government before the detained Canadian’s trial is expected to start in October.
Lieutenan
t-Commander Bill Kuebler has filed three motions with the Guantanamo [...]
OMAR EL AKKAD
From Saturday’s Globe and Mail
OTTAWA — It wasn’t too long ago that Bill Kuebler was as Red State as they come: a family man, a born-again Christian, a successful business lawyer, a political conservative with an unblemished record of voting Republican.
Today, the 37-year-old Navy lawyer is still as committed a Christian as ever, [...]
From Cageprisoners.com
Gareth Peirce is a human rights lawyer who has since the 1970s represented individuals accused of involvement in terrorism from both the Irish and the Muslim communities. Inspired by the U.S. civil-rights movement, Peirce first made headlines by securing the release of falsely imprisoned IRA suspects. She has been incensed by the [...]
Mohammad Jawad’s military commission hearing last week was unusual for many reasons. Jawad was a minor when he was captured in Afghanistan and now faces life in prison if convicted for allegedly throwing a hand grenade that wounded two U.S. soldiers and their Afghan interpreter in December 2002. Not only did the pre-trial hearing [...]
-See Mohamad Jawad’s Profile here.
On Feb 7, 2002, President Bush issued an order. The order stated, in pertinent part “I accept the legal conclusion of the Department of Justice and determine that Common Article 3 of Geneva does not apply to either al Qaeda or Taliban detainees.”
“I determine that the Taliban detainees do not qualify [...]
Rebecca Dick is Counsel to the Washington, D.C. office of the law firm of Dechert, LLP. Ms. Dick represents four Afghan nationals currently detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, two more previously detained there but transferred to a prison in Afghanistan, and two more released home to Afghanistan. On June 20, 2008, I had the privilege [...]
Shayana Kadidal, senior managing attorney of the Guantánamo project at the Center for Constitutional Rights, isn’t afraid to voice his opinion on the latest SCOTUS ruling in favor of Guantanamo detainees.
Below, excerpts from his conversation with MoJo reporter Stephanie Mencimer:
Mother Jones: Just as a refresher, since it seems as though the administration’s rationale is constantly [...]
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 [...]
Man Accused of Trying to Kill Troops Was Moved Cell to Cell, 112 Times in 14 Days
A military defense attorney for a detainee held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has asked that all charges against his client be dismissed after prosecutors provided him documents that show the detainee was subjected to an abusive technique that had [...]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — An Afghan detainee at Guantanamo Bay was the alleged victim of an abusive tactic meant to decrease his resistance to interrogation, a Pentagon-appointed defence attorney said Wednesday in a motion to dismiss charges.
Air Force Maj. David Frakt filed the motion to dismiss war-crime charges against Mohammed Jawad because he was [...]
A walk down memory lane.. the underwear fiasco.. enjoy!
Undergarments from Under Armour, the sports apparel line, offer “all-day performance, delivered in a lightweight compression fit,” at least according to the company’ s promotional material. While “unprecedented” in its ability to deliver comfort, Under Armour underwear is not standard issue for detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. [...]
“There is a huge number of [secret prisoners] being held in Iraq, and one of the intriguing aspects of this that doesn’t get much reporting is that the US is bringing people into Iraq from elsewhere to hold them there, simply because that keeps [the media and lawyers] away from the prisoners so they can’t [...]
This is an interview by Amy Goodman at Democracy Now! in 2005. This shows how desperate the detainees were then - imagine how much more desperate and hopeless they are now.
More than twenty detainees in the Guantanamo Bay prison have attempted suicide and UN investigators continue to press for visits at the prison camp despite [...]
Michelle Shephard National Security Reporter Only a third of Canadians believe Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr will receive a fair trial if the U. S. prosecutes him for war crimes, but the majority of Canadians still don’t want him brought home, a new survey released today reveals.
The Angus Reid Strategies poll shows a country still [...]
For the lawyers and others involved in the war crimes tribunal, getting there and back is increasingly difficult
GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA — As more than 70 lawyers, paralegals, courtroom personnel and journalists waited to take off from Baltimore-Washington International Airport on a flight here this month, two crucial figures in the Office of Military Commissions crawled [...]
Overcoming Denial
By Hannah Tennant-Moore
For the last two years, my mother has flown to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, every few months to meet with her pro bono client, a 32-year-old Algerian man named Abdul Aziz Naji. When she explains to friends and acquaintances how Aziz ended up in Guantánamo, where he has been held for nearly six [...]
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