by Ernesto Cienfuegos
It appears that the Bush Administration may have another “Abu Ghraib Prison” type torture scandal in its hands that it is desperately attempting to cover up. The disturbing human rights case involves a Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brandeis University educated Pakistani national that mysteriously disappeared, along with her three children, in Afghanistan [...]
Demonstration outside Pakistani
High Commission in London
© Amnesty International
Amnesty International called on the Pakistan government to reveal the fate and whereabouts of hundreds of disappeared people, amid international protests to mark the 25th International Day of the Disappeared on Saturday 30 August.
Amina Janjua, the founder of Defence of Human Rights, a Pakistani organisation that [...]
by Tim Bella
Aafia Siddiqui (Credit: AP Photo)
As U.S. and Pakistani officials sort through the confusion following Aafia Siddiqui’s transfer to New York after being charged with trying to kill U.S. soldiers and FBI agents in Afghanistan last month, a key question remains: Where has Siddiqui been for the past five years?
The American-trained [...]
By Khalid Hasan
WASHINGTON: Dr Aafia Siddiqui, when asked by a Pakistani embassy representative on Saturday as to her whereabouts and movements since her disappearance from Karachi, along with her three children, on 30 March 2003, refused to say anything, that being her lawyer’s advice.
Faqir Asif Hussain, consular at the Pakistan embassy in Washington, was [...]
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.
The existence of a secret, CIA-run prison on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean has long been a leaky secret in the “War on Terror,” and today’s revelations in TIME — based on disclosures by a “senior American official” (now retired), who was “a frequent participant in White House Situation Room meetings” [...]
INTRODUCTION
Since shortly after 9/11 – when many Al Qaeda members fled Afghanistan and crossed the border into Pakistan – we have played multiple games of cat and mouse with them. The biggest of them all, Osama bin Laden, is still at large at the time of this writing, but we have caught many, many others. [...]
By Saeed Shah | McClatchy Newspapers
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Pakistan’s intelligence agencies and police have disappeared hundreds of Pakistanis, including children as young as 9, as part of the U.S.-led war on terrorism, Amnesty International charged Wednesday.
The missing Pakistanis frequently were tortured and have been moved among secret detention centers regularly so that they become impossible [...]
A teenager captured in Afghanistan and shipped to the U.S. prison remained unknown to the world for five years. Now he’s being tried as an adult.
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — When Mohammed Jawad, a 23-year-old Afghan detainee, was summoned to appear before the military commissions at Guantánamo Bay for his arraignment in March, he told his [...]
Sahar Yasiri says ?Iraq is the number one country having the largest number of prisons in the world where there are more than 400 thousand Iraqi detainees including 6500 children and 10 thousand women.? This is the first part of long interview translated by AMSI English Web Team.
The representative of the Federation of prisoners and [...]
IPS
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Collusion between European Union governments and a secret U.S. torture and kidnapping programme has damaged the EU?s efforts to promote human rights throughout the world, an internal paper drawn up by Brussels officials has admitted.
David Cronin/IPS, Brussels - In 2001, the EU approved guidelines on how diplomats representing it should raise concern over the [...]
The Central Intelligence Agency knew from the beginning that its secret detention and torturous interrogation tactics probably bordered on illegal from the start, according to new documents identified through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.
In a filing yesterday, the CIA said it had identified 7,000 pages of classified memos, emails and other records relating to [...]
Michelle Shephard National Security Reporter Only a third of Canadians believe Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr will receive a fair trial if the U. S. prosecutes him for war crimes, but the majority of Canadians still don’t want him brought home, a new survey released today reveals.
The Angus Reid Strategies poll shows a country still [...]
By Miral Sattar
2006
I had been following Uzair Paracha’s trial closely in the news. I, like many others, was confident the jury would announce a ‘not guilty’ verdict.
Uzair Paracha, 26, is a Pakistani native and a graduate from the elite business school IBA, Institute of Business Administration. He is a legal immigrant who grew up in [...]
By Mumtaz Alvi
ISLAMABAD: With rekindled hope, the near and dear ones of scores of missing persons are back to the lobbies of the new National Assembly, looking for some Messiah who may help recover them one day.
Defence of Human Rights Campaigner Amina Masood was again seen at the Parliament House, pleading to some government officials. [...]
He spent over four years in Guantánamo Bay, the infamous US detention camp. The tale of Murat Kurnaz, as told by himself, will hit US bookstores this week. In his first interview since his release from Guantánamo Bay in 2006, Kurnaz tells Germany’s “Stern”-magazine all about torture, solitary confinement, being humiliated, and his life in [...]
WASHINGTON — Military prosecutors filed war crimes charges on Monday against a Guantánamo detainee accused of helping plan the 1998 bombing of the United States embassy in Tanzania, an attack for which he was indicted 10 years ago by federal prosecutors in New York.
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani
Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
The military charges seek the [...]
Relatives go to a Baghdad center to check names of people held in detention facilities. If their loved ones aren’t listed, the likely alternatives are worse.
By Raheem Salman, Los Angeles Times Staff WriterBAGHDAD — Mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters and wives fill the waiting room of the U. S.-run National Iraqi Assistance Center in Baghdad’s fortified [...]
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Apr 2 2008 by Greg O’Keeffe, Liverpool Echo
British Muslim Moazzam Begg spent two years in the notorious US Guantanamo Bay jail only to be released without charge. In Merseyside to give a lecture about the torture he witnessed, he speaks to Greg O’Keeffe
THEY CAME for Moazzam Begg in the dead [...]
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 [...]
by Andy Worthington
Andy Worthington is a historian based in
London. He is the author of
The Guantánamo Files, the first book
to tell the stories [...]
By Liliana Segura, AlterNet.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband issued an embarrassing apology to members of Parliament last month. Despite “earlier explicit assurances” to the contrary, he admitted, two planes carrying prisoners of the U.S. “war on terror” had landed on the British-owned island of Diego Garcia in 2002 before flying to foreign [...]
WASHINGTON, March 31 (UPI) — Charges were sworn against the man the U. S. military said it believes was a key player in the 1998 attack on the U. S. Embassy in Tanzania, officials said.
Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani of Zanzibar, Tanzania, now a detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was accused of participating in planning and [...]
An innocent man held as a terror detainee for years says he was tortured by Americans. Scott Pelley reports, Sunday,
(CBS) A German resident held by the U.S. for almost five years tells 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley that Americans tortured him in many ways - including hanging him from the ceiling for five days early [...]
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