By Vivienne Walt Thursday, Sep. 25, 2008
Both John McCain and Barack Obama have said they would shut the U.S. military detention facility at Guantánamo Bay, where about 250 men remain behind bars — some in their eighth year of captivity. But neither presidential candidate has outlined when and how they plan to do it. One [...]
Bob Egelko, Chronicle Staff Writer
After more than six years as a prisoner of the United States, former TV cameraman Sami al-Hajj is back at work with Al-Jazeera, the largest broadcaster in the Arab world, a thorn in the side of most Arab governments - and, by most indications, a target of deep hostility from the [...]
By Jumah al Dossari
I’ve covered the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, since 2004 as military correspondent for The Post. Jumah al Dossari first caught my attention in October 2005, when I heard the story of his gruesome suicide attempt during a visit from his lawyer. Then known as Detainee #261, Dossari clearly [...]
By Murat Kurnaz, 26, Author, Activist
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They used to beat everybody. There was a man — he was really old and couldn’t see and couldn’t hear. If the guards told him something to do and he didn’t do it because he couldn’t hear, they went into his cage and beat him up. They [...]
Silvia Cattori
URUKNET / CagePrisoners
Translated for Cageprisoners by Sue Bingham
Standing straight and tall, an impressive and deeply introspective man, Sami El Haj walks with a limp and the help of a walking stick. Neither laughter nor smiles light up the refined face of this man, old before his time. A deep sadness pervades him. He was [...]
The Algerian originated from Bechar southern province, named Hamlili Mustapha, who was imprisoned at Guantanamo bay prison, has been received home by a great number of his acquaintances congratulating him for coming home unharmed.
In this regard, El Khabar journalist has been one of the first visitors of the released prisoner’s home; we have been received [...]
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 [...]
Will the two Algerians freed from Guantánamo be treated fairly?
by Andy Worthington
It doesn’t take much investigation to discover that Algeria has a bleak human rights record, which is one of the reasons that, until last week, when 49-year-old Mustafa Hamlili and 28-year-old Abdul Raham [...]
Sandeep Singh Grewal - AHN Middle East Correspondent
Manama, Bahrain (AHN) - They suffered torture and humiliation in Guantanamo Bay for years. But even after their release, the six Bahraini men carry with them the dreaded tag as “criminals,” a reminder of their painful past.
It’s going to be one year in August since the last Bahraini [...]
Guantanamo Bay News
