By BEN FOX
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Three years ago, the man known as Internment Serial Number 669 stopped eating.
Ahmed Zaid Zuhair, a compact 43-year-old with 10 children in Saudi Arabia and Yemen, had been held at Guantanamo Bay since 2002 without charges and decided to join a mass hunger strike in protest. [...]
Omar Khadr’s sister stages hunger strike
Michelle Shephard
National Security Reporter
The sister of Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr has started a hunger strike on the lawn of Parliament Hill, saying she hopes her presence serves as a daily reminder to politicians about her 22-year-old brother’s continued incarceration.
But for lawyers and activists who have tried to publicize Khadr’s case [...]
Lawyer Bothaina Doqmaq, head of the Mandela Institute in Palestine, reported on Friday that the detainees in several sections and in solitary confinement in Al Jalama Israeli prison and interrogation center started a hunger strike on Thursday in protest to the harsh living conditions and the administration’s rejection to move them to ordinary sections although [...]
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — A Guantanamo prisoner who has been on a hunger strike for three years claims U.S. guards recently threatened to kill him and took his legal papers, lawyers for the Saudi said Monday.
Ahmed Zaid Zuhair told his lawyers a guard said “he will kill me and chop my body [...]
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.
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 [...]
February 13, 2005 - good interview!
Australian 60 Minutes program - Channel Nine - transcript of interview with ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib.
Transcript: Under suspicion
Reporter: Tara Brown
Producer: Stephen Taylor
Mamdouh Habib.
INTRO
TARA BROWN: Everyone has an opinion. Either Mamdouh Habib is a dangerous terrorist who should have been left to rot in jail or he is [...]
Gamal Nkrumah traces the triumph of human dignity embodied by the struggle of a Sudanese cameraman’s affliction
The ordeal of Al-Jazeera cameraman Sami Al- Haj has touched the Arab world. He has become an iconic figure and his release has demonstrated to all and sundry that the world’s most powerful nation has committed a terrible blunder. [...]
Sami al-Haj was reporting from Afghanistan for al-Jazeera TV when the US imprisoned him and took him to Guantánamo Bay. He was the only journalist there and this is his story.
Suddenly last Thursday, after nearly six years incarcerated without charge and more than a year after going on hunger strike, Sami al-Haj, the only journalist [...]
By Andy Worthington, AlterNet
The Al Jazeera cameraman was never charged.
After four and a half months of inexplicable inertia, the U.S. administration has finally seen fit to release another group of prisoners from Guantánamo, including the Sudanese al-Jazeera cameraman and journalist Sami al-Haj. Despite claims from within the administration that it was hoping [...]
KHARTOUM, Sudan - Al-Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Haj returned home to Sudan on Friday, a day after being released from six years of custody at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp where described conditions as “bad and getting worse.”
Al-Haj, 38, whose detention drew worldwide condemnation, was released from the U.S. military prison along with two other Sudanese. [...]
By Opheera McDoom
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Al Jazeera journalist Sami al-Haj returned home to Sudan on Friday after more than six years in the U.S.-run Guantanamo Bay prison, urging Washington to respect human rights and branding torture as terrorism.
Haj said he and the other Guantanamo detainees had been subjected to all kinds of torture, but the [...]
By Rhodri Davies
Mohammed al-Haj, Sami’s son, sent a message to his father from Al Jazeera’s offices
Mohammed al-Haj, Sami’s son, sent a message to his father from Al Jazeera’s offices
Wearing a pristine white thobe, a dark skinned eight-year-old boy of Sudanese decent looks into a video camera.
He says: “Ana bahibak baba” (I love you dad) - [...]
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 [...]
Sami al-Haj is a journalist, but one unlike any other. For over six years, since December 15, 2001, when he was seized by Pakistani soldiers on the Afghan border, while on assignment as a cameraman for the Qatar-based broadcaster al-Jazeera, he has been in a disturbing but unique position: a trained journalist held as an [...]
Dr. Al-Arian Faces Shocking Abuse in New Facility & ACTION
Yesterday morning, Dr. Sami Al-Arian was transported by immigration agents to the Hampton Roads Regional Jail in Portsmouth, Virginia. Since arriving at the facility, he has been subjected to numerous, shocking abuses, even worse than those he experienced at a detention center in Maryland.
When Dr. Al-Arian [...]
“Since January 2002, the five mandate holders have been following the situation of detainees held at the United States Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay. In June 2004, they decided to continue this task as a group because the situation falls under the scope of each of the mandates. The focus of each mandate holder is [...]
Dr. Sami Al-Arian (Arab American News)
Dr. Sami Al-Arian, Palestinian political prisoner, is being held in a prison hospital, after a debilitating 60-day hunger strike seeking to draw the attention of the nation and the world to the injustice visited upon him, jailed for his commitment to justice and dignity for his homeland. This is not [...]
Reprieve is releasing the fourth in a series of protest pieces called Sketches of My Nightmare, inspired by the suffering of Sami al Haj. Mr. al Haj is an al-Jazeera journalist picked up covering the Afghan war and sent to Guantánamo Bay. He has been on hunger strike in Guantánamo since January 7, 2007.
Sami al [...]
Reprieve is releasing the third in a series of protest pieces called Sketches of My Nightmare, inspired by the suffering of Sami al Haj. Mr. al Haj is an al-Jazeera journalist picked up covering the Afghan war and sent to Guantánamo Bay. He has been on hunger strike in Guantánamo since January 7, 2007.
Sami al [...]
KABUL –Scores of inmates at Afghanistan’s main jail, which holds Taliban prisoners, are reportedly on hunger strike with some having sewn their mouths shut, a parliamentarian said Tuesday.
Afghan media said the strike began after guards arrested visitors to the Pul-i-Charki prison following the escape of some inmates.
Authorities have posted extra security outside the prison on [...]
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/?p=247
Today, Reprieve, the charity that provides frontline investigation and legal representation for prisoners in Guantánamo Bay, released the first of four pictures based on censored drawings made by imprisoned al-Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Haj.
The first of Lewis Peake’s four pictures based on drawings by Sami al-Haj, which were censored by the US military.
The pictures were created [...]
By Andrew O. Selsky
ASSOCIATED PRESS
3:02 p.m. March 17, 2008
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba – The United States has censored a gruesome drawing by a Guantanamo Bay detainee depicting him as a skeleton and being force-fed at the military prison, the man’s lawyers said Monday as they released a recreation of the sketch.The detainee, Sami [...]
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