Len Hart
The Bush administration is trying once again to rewrite history and the law, specifically ‘the official evidence against Guantanamo Bay detainees’. Typically the legal eagles in the Bush regime have it backward. Bushco should not be given a second chance to fabricate a case when it had none to begin with. Detainees have already [...]
By Huw Jones
BBC News
What happens if you are left in the dark in solitary confinement for days on end? The result is called sensory deprivation and the mind struggles to cope with it.
Adam Bloom is a stand-up comic, an extreme extrovert who admits he thrives on stimulation.
He is one [...]
Lawyers defending Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks, and four other Guantanamo detainees have asked for the presiding military judge to dismiss their cases, saying the timing is politically motivated.
The men are to stand trial over the attacks on September 15, according to the court filing quoted by AP.
However the men’s lawyers say [...]
San Francisco Bay View, Commmentary, Safiya Ghori
Almost seven years after 9/11, Guantanamo Bay remains a shameful symbol of the War on Terror. The United States continues to argue that the Constitution has no jurisdiction outside U. S. borders, thereby violating international and national law. Guantanamo Bay has since housed hundreds of men accused of being [...]
Story Published: Aug 12, 2007 (AP) - After more than five years, the Pentagon revealed why it is holding a Saudi nicknamed “the Professor” at Guantanamo Bay, saying he once lived with a Sept. 11 conspirator and received a stipend from Osama bin Laden.
This undated photo released by the Aamer family,
shows Shaker Aamer, a [...]
By Jason Leopold
Newly released U. S. government documents, detailing how Bush administration officials punched legalistic holes in the Geneva Convention’s protections of war captives, stand in stark contrast to the outrage some of the same officials expressed in the first week of the Iraq War when Iraqi TV interviewed several captured American soldiers.
Then, Defense Secretary [...]
John Yoo’s legal opinions and questions about culpability and timing.
By Scott Horton
John C. Yoo likes the limelight, but it’s causing him some grief. Of the half a dozen lawyers who played important roles in a Bush administration decision to legalize the use of highly coercive interrogation techniques, only Yoo has emerged as the public face [...]
H Candace Gorman
This week Judge John B. Bates of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled once again that Guantanamo prisoner Abdul Hamid Al- Ghizzawi was not entitled to any medical care beyond what the government decides he needs, assuming that it is any at all, and that neither Al-Ghizzawi nor [...]
An innocent man held as a terror detainee for years tells Scott Pelley how Americans tortured him in Afghanistan and then at Guantanamo Bay;
by Daniel Johnson
Visiting Pakistan when he was just 19 years old, Murat Kurnaz was akin to a UC Irvine student studying abroad, as he came to the country to learn about the [...]
In the end, his charges were stayed. ‘The authorities ruined my brother’s future, his reputation and abused him physically and psychologically – all for, according to them, absolutely no reason’
A [...]
Sabin P. Willett [attorney for Guantanamo Uighur detainee Huzaifa Parhat; Bingham McCutchen LLP]: “For years, lawyers for Guantanamo detainees have argued that the “evidence” on which their clients were held is remarkably flimsy. On Friday, April 4, 2008, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit got its first close look [...]
Nick Juliano
This week’s revelation of another secret Bush administration memo that seemed to eliminate
any boundaries on the treatment of detainees added to the already substantial evidence that US military and intelligence interrogators have abused and perhaps even tortured prisoners rounded up during the “war on terror.”
Former Justice Department lawyer John Yoo wrote in 2003 [...]
By WILLIAM GLABERSON and NEIL A. LEWIS
Published: April 4, 2008
WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union and one of the country’s leading lawyers’ groups, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, said Thursday that they had assembled experienced teams of lawyers to defend some of the most notorious detainees at Guantánamo, [...]
From Cageprisoners…
Frank and his son, John, in New York City. Courtesy of Frank Lindh.
In an exclusive interview with Cageprisoners, the father of John Walker Lindh, Frank Lindh, discusses his son’s story. John Lindh, an American Muslim convert, was captured in Afghanistan in December 2001. Northern Alliance and US forces subsequently subjected Lindh to inhumane treatment [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Omar Khadr is a Canadian citizen who was a 15-year-old child soldier when he allegedly killed a U. S. serviceman during a firefight in Afghanistan. The debate about his return to Canada must begin and end there. That the current and past Canadian governments have failed to secure his release and repatriation is a glaring [...]
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 [...]
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