A veteran of Israeli gaols, wheelchair bound Mahmoud Abu Rideh is a stateless Palestinian, who has indefinite leave to remain in the UK. His family are British citizens. Following a police raid on his home in December 2001, Abu Rideh spent the next three and a half years detained without trial in HMP [...]
Murat Kurnaz, a Turkish national born and raised in Germany, was sold into the hands of torturers for $3,000 by Pakistani bounty hunters in late 2001. Only 19 years old at the time, he was detained in Kandahar military base in Afghanistan before being transferred to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. After five years of abuse and [...]
From Cageprisoners.com
Gareth Peirce is a human rights lawyer who has since the 1970s represented individuals accused of involvement in terrorism from both the Irish and the Muslim communities. Inspired by the U.S. civil-rights movement, Peirce first made headlines by securing the release of falsely imprisoned IRA suspects. She has been incensed by the [...]
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I have added Jumah’s “Days of adverse hardship in US detention camps - Testimony of
Guantánamo detainee Jumah al-Dossari” Click here to download the PDF. Understandably Jumah didn’t want to go back to the torture in the interview, but he did in this PDF)
Juma Mohammed Al-Dossari was held in Guantanamo Bay [...]
Shayana Kadidal, senior managing attorney of the Guantánamo project at the Center for Constitutional Rights, isn’t afraid to voice his opinion on the latest SCOTUS ruling in favor of Guantanamo detainees.
Below, excerpts from his conversation with MoJo reporter Stephanie Mencimer:
Mother Jones: Just as a refresher, since it seems as though the administration’s rationale is constantly [...]
Controversial Muslim cleric Abu Hamza convicted of alleged incitement is facing extradition to the US at their request. Currently he is subject to a number of measures that have been brought in post 11th September 2001 which include the government’s desire to remove his citizenship as a British citizen. He speaks to Cageprisoners about the [...]
“There is a huge number of [secret prisoners] being held in Iraq, and one of the intriguing aspects of this that doesn’t get much reporting is that the US is bringing people into Iraq from elsewhere to hold them there, simply because that keeps [the media and lawyers] away from the prisoners so they can’t [...]
By Andy Worthington
Al-Jazeera has the first interview with Sami al-Haj since his return to the Sudan from Guantánamo late last night. The journalist, seized while on assignment for al-Jazeera in December 2001, had been on hunger strike for the last 16 months of his 76-month imprisonment without charge or trial by the United States, and [...]
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 [...]
Article from Cageprisoners
Detainee DD was arrested in Britain two and a half years ago. Since that time he has been detained without trial or charge, fighting deportation to Libya, where he may face the threat of further imprisonment, torture or death. Initially held in Britain’s Secret Guantanamo, HMP Long Lartin, he was later released under [...]
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