The Defense Department does not have to release the names of Guantanamo Bay detainees who reported abuse by military personnel or who were suspected of abusing others, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Manhattan (2nd Cir.) decided Monday, overturning a lower court decision.
The three-judge panel held that The Associated Press’s Freedom of Information Act request [...]
John’s attorneys point to the fact that other young men in very similar circumstances to John’s have already been released and sent home to their parents. Yasir Hamdi is one such case. He survived the same massacre of prisoners where John was.
Late last month, the Department of Justice Office of Inspector General issued a positive report on the FBI’s involvement in detainee interrogations in Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay and Iraq.I applaud the OIG’s recognition of a handful of career Justice attorneys and FBI officials who challenged abusive interrogation techniques - and warned correctly that torture would [...]
The Guardian
The controversy over prison ships was first highlighted in June 2005 when the UN’s special rapporteur on terrorism spoke of “very, very serious” allegations that the US was secretly detaining terrorism suspects in various locations around the world, notably on vessels in the Indian Ocean.
The US authorities have not denied that ships have been [...]
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