But Dr Aafia Siddiqui is NOT Prisoner 650, the Grey Lady of Bagram. We still do not know who Prisoner 650 is. We do not know where she is, and we do not know how many other Pakistani women are being held as female enemy combatants - yes, that is what the pentagon calls them: Female Enemy Combatants.
By Jason Burke
After years in detention, Afghan returnees have bitter memories as they face new hardships. Jason Burke reports from Kabul
Abdul Nasir, right, and his brother in Kabul. Photograph: Jason Burke
They call them the Bandi Guantánamo, the Guantánamo returnees, and their welcome home is far from warm. All across Afghanistan in recent months, scores [...]
KABUL: The US military authorities have released three detainees from its Bagram detention facility north of Kabul, capital of Afghanistan.
A statement issued by the coalition forces on Sunday said the three men were released in the spirit of the holy month of Ramadan and were handed over to the government of Afghanistan.
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The courtroom was packed. Sketch artists were in place. Journalists and other spectators squeezed into seats. Marshals kept a watchful eye.
Mark Lenihan/Associated Press
Aafia Siddiqui is accused of shooting at F.B.I. agents.
The place was Federal District Court in Manhattan, where a Pakistani neuroscientist was to be arraigned on criminal charges on Tuesday. Government officials have said [...]
Five years after her mysterious disappearance in Karachi, the FBI has finally conceded that an MIT-trained Pakistani neuroscientist is alive and is in US custody in Afghanistan.
The fate of her three young, American-born children is still unknown.
By Farah Stockman
Globe Staff
Female activists rallied in Karachi, Pakistan,
on Thursday demanding the release of
Aafia Siddiqui, who is in custody in
Afghanistan.
(RIZWAN TABASSUM/ AFP/ Getty Images)
WASHINGTON - Five years after her disappearance, an MIT-trained Pakistani neuroscientist accused of belonging to an Al Qaeda cell based in Boston, is alive and in [...]
ISLAMABAD - A habeas corpus petition was filed in Islamabad High Court Tuesday against the alleged captivity of a Pakistani doctor, Aafia Siddiqui and her children at notorious US detention facility in Bagram (Afghanistan).
The petition has been filed by Barrister Javed Iqbal Jaffery, a lawyer who is also pleading the case of Dr A [...]
By SCOTT SHANE
WASHINGTON — Red Cross investigators concluded last year in a secret report that the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation methods for high-level Qaeda prisoners constituted torture and could make the Bush administration officials who approved them guilty of war crimes, according to a new book on counterterrorism efforts since 2001.
The book says that the [...]
British journalist Yvonne Ridley says woman being held in solitary confinement for 4 years
By Muhammad Bilal
ISLAMABAD: A Pakistani woman has spent the last four years, and remains to this day, in solitary confinement at the United-States run Bagram airbase detention facility in Afghanistan, British journalist and peace activist Yvonne Ridley told reporters on [...]
Tehran Times Political Desk
TEHRAN — British journalist Yvonne Ridley flew to Pakistan on a whirlwind trip this week to highlight the plight of a woman who has been held in U.S. custody for more than four years.
She referred to the woman, known only by her prisoner number 650, as The Grey Lady of Bagram.
More than [...]
Congress is finally moving to ban one of the Bush administration’s most blatant evasions of accountability in Iraq — the outsourcing of war detainees’ interrogation to mercenary private contractors.
Operating free of the restraints of military rule and ethics, some of these corporate thugs turned up in the torture scandal at the Abu Ghraib prison and [...]
The guards kicked, kneed and punched many of the men until they collapsed in pain. U.S. troops shackled and dragged other detainees to small isolation rooms, then hung them by their wrists from chains dangling from the wire mesh ceiling.
The Supreme Court agrees to examine if high-level officials can be sued for harsh policies.
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld personally authorized the use of brutal interrogation techniques against suspected terrorists imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay despite warnings from the FBI that the methods amounted to inhumane treatment, was possibly illegal, and would not produce reliable intelligence, a Department of Justice inspector general testified Tuesday.
An American military spokesperson has dismissed any suggestion that a new prison planned for Afghanistan is intended to receive prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, the detention centre in Cuba that is facing increasing criticism in the United States.
US military authorities in Afghanistan have released a German of Afghan origin detained at a military airbase near Kabul five months ago on suspicion of terrorism.
The German foreign ministry in Berlin told the Web site of Der Spiegel news magazine that the 41-year-old man, identified as Gholam Ghaus Z, was released from captivity at [...]
Hey at least these guys have the class to cop to it and do something about it - unlike the good ol’ US of A…
By Travis Lupick
Today (May 27) in the House of Commons, NDP defence critic Dawn Black (New Westminster-Coquitlam) introduced a bill to outlaw torture.
If approved by a majority in the House, Black’s [...]
By Carol Grisanti, NBC News Producer
KABUL, Afghanistan – When Mirwali, 25, finally got the chance to talk to his 65-year-old father, who is held in the U.S.-run military prison at Bagram Airbase, outside of Kabul, he was so overcome with emotion he couldn’t speak. Mirwali covered his face with the long sash of grey silk hanging down [...]
This story makes me furious. Has this country become so callous, so heartless that we can simply ignore an ex-detainees accounts of the extreme torture he went through? How can these “lawmakers” go home, eat a nice warm dinner, and sleep soundly? They should be deeply ashamed. I am writing letters, I [...]
By ERIC LICHTBLAU and SCOTT SHANE
WASHINGTON ? F. B. I. agents complained repeatedly, beginning in 2002, about the harsh interrogation tactics that military and C. I. A. interrogators were using in questioning terrorism suspects, like making them do dog tricks and parade in the nude in front of female soldiers, but their complaints appear to [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) ? Around 500 minors are currently detained by the US army in Iraq, as well as nearly a dozen juveniles in Afghanistan, a US civil liberties group revealed on Wednesday.
“Since 2002, the United States has held approximately 2,500 individuals under the age of 18 at the time of their capture … in Guantanamo [...]
By Jon Boone
Conditions at Policharki prison?s Block D, where prisoners transferred from US custody in Guant?namo Bay and at Bagram Air Force Base are housed, are some of the very best in Afghanistan. (Since Bagram is one of the ones they’re comparing it to, that’s not saying much!!) But human rights investigators have expressed grave [...]
Gamal Nkrumah traces the triumph of human dignity embodied by the struggle of a Sudanese cameraman’s affliction
The ordeal of Al-Jazeera cameraman Sami Al- Haj has touched the Arab world. He has become an iconic figure and his release has demonstrated to all and sundry that the world’s most powerful nation has committed a terrible blunder. [...]
WASHINGTON — The commanding general in Iraq for the Abu Ghraib prison scandal says outright in his new memoir that the military tortured and killed detainees in Afghanistan, that the military had a plan to kill off Moqtada al-Sadr’s deputies as early as March 2003 and that Defense Secretary Rumsfeld tried to usurp command for [...]
Any doubt that David Hicks was charged with war crimes for purely political reasons has been removed, his father and his lawyer say.
The former chief prosecutor of the US military commissions at Guantanamo Bay said overnight he would not have pursued Hicks because the case against the Australian was not serious enough.
The ex-prosecutor, Air Force [...]
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