There’s a lot of media talk about USA versus China in the Olympic Games this year. Many are likening the rivalry to a new Cold War (albeit a sporting one), with China taking the place of Russia.
Others are saying that due to the political differences between the two countries, this is spilling over into the [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) — A Guantanamo detainee on Wednesday urged a human rights panel that investigates abuse cases in the Americas to review his accusations that he was tortured in the US “war on terror” prison.
Djamel Ameziane, an Algerian who has been held at the US naval base in Cuba for six years as an “enemy [...]
NEW YORK: Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has shifted Doctor Aafiya Siddiqui to New York where she would be produce in front of court and could get 20 years of imprisonment in accusation of attacking on American Army officers. While Pakistan has sought counselor access to the detained doctor
Aafia Siddiqui, 36, a Pakistani and former [...]
..Lies… lies, and more lies.. obvious lies! I do not understand how they expect us to believe these lies! Perhaps we need to ask them… if Aafia isn’t the “Grey Lady of Bagram” who IS??
NEW YORK (CNN) — A Pakistani scientist accused of shooting at U.S. officers while in Afghan custody last month has [...]
By Yvonne Ridley, Press TV
In a few days time, I will be stepping on board a boat in an attempt to sail into the world’s largest open-air prison - known as Gaza - to help break the vicious Israeli siege which has virtually destroyed the economy, health, education and welfare systems there.
Joining me will [...]
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 “capture videos” the Pentagon aims to bury, late-night brutality pointing to the CIA — and even a surreal viewing of “The Dark Knight” here in Guantánamo.
Salon Editor’s note: Since May, staff members of Human Rights Watch have been reporting on U.S. judicial proceedings at Guantánamo for Salon.
By Julia Hall
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — Given all [...]
By Guled Mohamed
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Muslim leaders in Kenya accused a senior government official on Wednesday of blocking the release of a presidential report on injustices against their community, a charge the government immediately denied.
The leaders said Cabinet Secretary and Public Service Head Francis Muthaura had suppressed the findings of the study, which was ordered [...]
As a former Special Operations commander from the sixties and having been substantially involved with the training of US Army combat troops during the Vietnam and Berlin Crisis era – I have a good feel for the nature of the American serviceman, - or at least I THOUGHT that I did. Apparently there has been [...]
By SCOTT SHANE
WASHINGTON — Red Cross investigators concluded last year in a secret report that the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation methods for high-level Qaeda prisoners constituted torture and could make the Bush administration officials who approved them guilty of war crimes, according to a new book on counterterrorism efforts since 2001.
The book says that the [...]
AL JAZEERA television said yesterday it had appointed a cameraman held for six years without charge at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay as producer at its new freedoms and human rights programmes department.
“I will do my utmost to reveal to the world the violations committed against humans,” Sudanese-born Sami al-Haj, who was handed to [...]
By Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON (IPS) - On the eve of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, a bipartisan group of some 200 religious leaders and former top U.S. national security and military officers launched a campaign for a presidential order to outlaw torture and cruel and inhumane treatment of all detainees.
The campaign, [...]
Prisoner reaches out in letter to media
Noor Javed
Staff Reporter
NB: Omar Khadr was born in Toronto and is a Canadian citizen, he is not a naturalized citizen as stated in this article.
Longing for a normal life and a chance to return to the country where his “soul” is “connected,” a letter by Omar Khadr to [...]
One Iraqi prisoner, identified only as Yasser, reported being subjected to electric shocks three times and being sodomised with a stick. His thumbs bore round scars consistent with shocking, Physicians for Human Rights said in report obtained by The Associated Press before its official release. He would not allow a full rectal exam.
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 Spencer Ackerman
At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing this week, answers about the Bush administration’s “enhanced interrogations” finally came to light.
In August 2004, a Defense Dept. panel convened to investigate detainee abuse after the Abu Ghraib scandal issued its much-anticipated report. Interrogation techniques designed for use at Guantánamo Bay, which President George [...]
By Michael Doyle and Marisa Taylor | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON — The Taliban tortured Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak al Ginco. They thought he was a U.S. spy. Then, U.S. soldiers called the Syrian native an enemy and shipped him to Guantanamo.
Now, Ginco will be turning a spotlight back on the Bush administration itself. Newly empowered by [...]
On Jan. 17, 2003, Mary Walker, the Air Force general counsel, received an urgent memo from the Pentagon’s top attorney. Attached to the classified document was a set of directives drafted two days earlier by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Human Rights Watch, an international rights group, has demanded that “harsh” conditions at the US-run detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, be urgently improved.
In a report released on Tuesday, the group said about 185 of the 270 prisoners at the controversial facility are being held in inhumane conditions.
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The group also reiterated its demand that the detention centre be [...]
While much reporting after last week’s arraignments focused on KSM’s desire to be executed, torture itself is on trial at Guantánamo Bay.
Man Accused of Trying to Kill Troops Was Moved Cell to Cell, 112 Times in 14 Days
A military defense attorney for a detainee held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has asked that all charges against his client be dismissed after prosecutors provided him documents that show the detainee was subjected to an abusive technique that had [...]
From: Invictus
The UK Guardian is reporting the United States is holding hundreds of detainees from its international wars on at least 17 “floating prisons” in different harbors around the world. The detainees are interrogated, and then many of them sent via extraordinary rendition to other countries for further interrogation and torture.
According to research carried out [...]
This has been a disturbing week for British resident and Guantánamo prisoner Binyam Mohamed, who endured two and a half years of torture at the hands of Pakistani agents, the CIA, and the United States’ proxy torturers in Morocco, before being transferred to Guantánamo in September 2004.
“After torturing, they transferred us to inquisitionland in Guantanamo,” said Mohammed. “We don’t have a right to anything.”
The five defendants are charged with conspiring to finance, train and direct the 19 hijackers who seized four airliners used in the attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center and damaged the Pentagon outside Washington. They are charged in the deaths of 2,973 people killed in the attacks and the crash of one airliner in Pennsylvania.
By LARA JAKES JORDAN
WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers chastised the Bush administration on Wednesday for allowing the Chinese government to interrogate Chinese Muslim detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay and demanded they be freed in the United States.
The two lawmakers, Reps. Bill Delahunt, D-Mass., and Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., said the Uighurs — [...]
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