by William Fisher
As a federal appeals court ruled that the U. S. military improperly labeled a Chinese Muslim held at Guantanamo Bay an “enemy combatant” and ordered that he be released, transferred, or granted a new hearing, an influential congressional committee delivered a scathing criticism of China’s closed trial of 15 men on terrorism charges [...]
[JURIST] A British resident still detained at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the UK government alleging that the UK Foreign Office has refused to turn over evidence necessary to his defense before a US military commission, according to the Guardian newspaper. The evidence sought allegedly shows that Binyam Mohamed [Reprieve [...]
Sami al-Haj is a journalist, but one unlike any other. For over six years, since December 15, 2001, when he was seized by Pakistani soldiers on the Afghan border, while on assignment as a cameraman for the Qatar-based broadcaster al-Jazeera, he has been in a disturbing but unique position: a trained journalist held as an [...]
Fantasizing Democratic Freedoms in Iraq
Madhavi Bhasin
Associated Press (AP) photographer Bilal Hussein has been held for two year on being suspected of helping Iraqi insurgents, but without being formally charged by the US military. On April 9, 2008 the Iraqi judges dismissed the accusations against him and ordered his release under the Amnesty Law. But he [...]
By Mariah Blake, Mother Jones
http://www.alternet.org/story/80859/
IT WAS LATE September 2002, and construction crews were just finishing work on the main prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, when three German intelligence agents arrived on the island aboard a U.S. military plane.
The reason for their visit was sensitive. The Pentagon was still arguing that those held at [...]
How are you, Mr. J. Wells Dixon and Ms. Seema Saifee? I hope that this letter reaches you before you come over, and I hope that it will be a little beneficial for our Turkistani brothers’ situation here.
We, the Turkistani brothers, left our homeland in order to escape from the brutal suppression and unfair treatment [...]
Seema Saifee, a US lawyer representing 4 of 17 Uygur detainees in Guantanamo Bay that have been unlawfully arrested
and deported from Afghanistan.
Below is an article written by Seema Saifee published by Jursit:
British historian and journalist Andy Worthington has described Guantánamo as part of “a cruel and misguided response by the Bush administration to the September [...]
JURIST Guest Columnist Seema Saifee, a litigator at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP in New York representing several Uighurs detained at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay, says the US government continues to damage its own image by holding the men - all cleared for release - in complete isolation in the supermax-style [...]
The stories of the Uyghurs in Guantánamo — Muslims from the oppressed Xinjiang province of China, formerly known as East Turkistan — have long demonstrated chronic injustice on the part of the US authorities to those who know of them, although they have only sporadically registered on the media’s radar.
Numbering 22 men in total, three [...]
Gihan Shahine delves into the lives of Egyptians held in Guantanamo, the world’s most infamous prison
“My name’s Shafiq Rasul and I’m from Tipton. I tell them I am not Taliban but they don’t want to listen. You won’t believe I just came out here for my mate’s wedding, do you?”
The poignant scene is from the [...]
In a rare direct appeal from inside Guantanamo Bay, a Chinese Muslim has said he is continuing to be held in harsh conditions at the US detention centre, despite being told years ago that he was innocent and would be released.
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In a letter released by his New York-based lawyers and obtained by the Associated Press, [...]
Kabul, 13 March (AKI) - By Syed Saleem Shahzad - Prisoners held in Kabul’s controversial Pul-i-Charkhi jail rioted late on Thursday when NATO forces tried to shift Taliban inmates for interrogation.
Unnamed sources told Adnkronos International (AKI) that inmates in block 4 of the prison resisted their removal by NATO personnel, alleging that [...]
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