KABUL: The US plans to build a vast ’second Guantanamo’ were condemned yesterday. Human rights lawyers said they will attack America’s use of its main Afghan base in Bagram as a legal black hole, as a place “where no laws apply”.
Rights lawyers also accused Washington of targeting journalists to cover up its practices in Afghanistan [...]
By Carol Rosenberg | Miami Herald
For months now, John McCain and Barack Obama have peppered their campaign speeches with pledges to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camps. Both have cast the detention center as harmful to U.S. foreign policy and a source of international alienation. Both say they would move the terrorism suspects to U.S. [...]
Here are the five steps the US must now take to safely and quickly remove the stain on America’s reputation
After more than six years of constant controversy, it really does look as if Guantánamo’s days as a prison camp are numbered. The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Boumediene v Bush further narrowed any legal distinction [...]
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