by Wendy Barranco
Ten Iraq veterans were arrested and one seriously injured during attempts to get the presidential candidates to hear them out.
One hour before the final presidential debate of the 2008 campaign, fourteen members of IVAW marched in formation to Hofstra University to present questions for the candidates. IVAW had requested permission from debate moderator [...]
New York, The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release of a cameraman held by U.S. forces in Iraq, and calls on the military to release a freelance journalist working for Reuters who has been held since Tuesday.
Omar Husham, 28?, a cameraman with Baghdad TV?, a satellite channel owned by the Iraqi Islamic Party, [...]
New York, The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the detention of two Iraqi journalists by the U.S. military in separate incidents and calls on the authorities to make clear any charges against them or release them immediately.
Omar Husham, 28?, was arrested along with his father and two brothers at his house in the [...]
By Jonathan Finer, who spent 18 months in Iraq as a correspondent for The Washington Post between 2003 and 2006
KAFKA COMES TO AMERICA
Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror
By Steven T. Wax
Other. 380 pp. $25.95
Before they were falsely accused of terrorism, Brandon Mayfield, an American lawyer in Oregon, and Adel Hamad, a Sudanese relief [...]
The wife of one of the failed 2005 London suicide bombers was found guilty Wednesday of failing to tell the police about the terrorist plot.
Reporters Without Borders has just learned that journalist and human rights activist Solidzhon Abdurakhmanov is being held in the western autonomous region of Karakalpakstan on a drug possession charge which fellow journalists believe was trumped up.
A criminal court in the regional capital of Nukus ordered him placed in pre-trial detention today but the exact [...]
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 [...]
Lecturers fear threat to academic freedom
Manual downloaded from US government website
Polly Curtis and Martin Hodgson
A masters student researching terrorist tactics who was arrested and detained for six days after his university informed police about al-Qaida-related material he downloaded has spoken of the “psychological torture” he endured in custody.
Despite his Nottingham University supervisors insisting the materials [...]
A Moroccan investigative judge on Tuesday questioned a journalist from Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television who was being held on terrorism charges, said court officials.
Moroccan journalist Abdelhafid Sriti was the correspondent here for the Lebanon-based Al-Manar TV. He was arrested in February along with 35 others suspected of belonging to a terrorism cell headed by Abdelkader [...]
By KUSHAL JEENA
UPI Correspondent NEW DELHI, May 28 (UPI)
Indian intellectuals meeting in the aftermath of the May 13 bombings in the northern tourist spot of Jaipur have accused the security and investigative agencies of picking up Muslim youths on suspicion and without any tangible evidence of their involvement in terror- related crimes.
The conference, titled “Terrorism: [...]
Another one, this time in the UK…
POLICE this evening began searches of a Muslim centre in Plymouth following the arrest of a third suspect in connection with the Exeter terror bombing.
(note that the man in the photo is not one of the men arrested - it’s a stock photo)
Assistant Chief Constable Bob Spencer announced [...]
Two men have been arrested in separate raids on suspicion of supporting terrorism overseas.
The men were arrested in dawn raids at two separate
addresses
A Metropolitan Police spokesman said the men, aged 32 and 31, were arrested at about 0600 BST on Wednesday at homes in Leicester and east London.
Officers from Counter Terrorism Command have carried [...]
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Guantanamo Bay News
