by Muhammad Khawajah
I am twelve years old and live with my family in Ni’lin in the Palestinian territories.
We live on the ground floor of the house, my two uncles and their families live on the first floor, and my grandmother lives on the second floor.
On Thursday [11 September], around 3:00am I woke up from my [...]
By Andy Worthington
When is a child not a child? Apparently, when he is Omar Khadr, a 15-year-old Canadian who was shot in the back after a firefight in Afghanistan in July 2002. Omar has been in U.S. custody ever since, first at a prison at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan, and for the last six years [...]
by Faisal Kamal Pasha - Islamabad
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has expressed its concern over the Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s missing children and conveyed its concern to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Amjad Iqbal Qureshi while talking to ‘The News’.
Earlier during the hearing DAG told the IHC that the ministry of [...]
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 [...]
By Stephen Soldz & Brad Olson
The movement against U.S. torture experienced a significant victory last week. The members of the American Psychological Association [APA] rejected the policies of their leadership, policies that abetted the Bush administration’s program of torture and detainee abuse. By a vote of 59%, the members passed a referendum stating that APA [...]
By KHALID AZIZ
ISLAMABAD- Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s family has extended profound gratitude to the present democratic government for making serious efforts in bringing Dr Aafia’s son Muhammad Ahmad back home.
Saad Saleem, Spokesperson Defence of Human Rights (DHR), an NGO struggling for the release of missing persons, said here during a press conference [...]
TORONTO — A Canadian government representative complained as recently as a few months ago that her efforts to ensure proper medical and other care for Omar Khadr in Guantanamo Bay were being stymied by his American captors, newly released documents reveal.
The classified accounts of welfare visits by an official from Foreign Affairs show even simple [...]
Mohamed Jawad was a minor when he was taken to Guantanamo Bay in 2002. Major David Frakt has been working very very hard on Mohamed’s behalf. He has put together an action that he believes will work. It will take only a few minutes.
This link contains the talking points for a letter. Please do write! [...]
Was one of the youngest prisoners at Guantánamo rushed to court by the Bush administration for political reasons?
By Jo Becker, children’s rights advocacy director, published in Salon.com
GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — One of the youngest detainees at Guantánamo Bay, a 23-year-old Afghan named Mohammed Jawad , spent two days in a courtroom here last week [...]
SHAUN MULLEN, TMV Columnist
When the Bush administration put out the word that only guilty verdicts were allowable at the Guantánamo Bay war crimes tribunal, Brigadier General Thomas Hartmann saluted crisply and answered the call.
yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = “The Guantánamo Trials: Castles Built Of Sand & Other Bush Torture Regime News”;
http://freedetainees.org/1793
By BENEDICT CAREY
They have closely studied suspects, looking for mental quirks. They have suggested lines of questioning. They have helped decide when a confrontation is too intense, or when to push harder. More than those in the other healing professions, psychologists have played a central role in the military and C.I.A. interrogation of people suspected [...]
By Carol Rosenberg | Miami Herald
GUANTANAMO BAY NAY BASE, Cuba — One general testified about another general at the war court Wednesday, describing a Pentagon official fast-tracking trials here as “abusive, bullying, unprofessional.”
Moreover, in testimony, Army Brig. Gen. Gregory Zanetti, deputy prison camps commander, described the approach employed earlier this year by his counterpart, Air [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Hearings opened Wednesday for two of the youngest detainees held at the US military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, an observer with Amnesty International said.
Canadian Omar Khadr and Afghan national Mohammed Jawad were both teenagers when they were arrested in Afghanistan and eventually sent to Guantanamo Bay. Their separate hearings began around [...]
The Canadian Press
TORONTO — Lawyers for Omar Khadr filed suit Friday in an effort to compel Prime Minister Stephen Harper to demand the Canadian citizen be repatriated from Guantanamo Bay, where he is due to stand trial for “war crimes” before a U.S. military commission in October.
The suit, filed in Federal Court, argues Canada is [...]
TORONTO, (UPI) — Nearly 300 protesters in Canada say they want a Toronto-born man released from the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba.
Detainee Omar Khadr’s mother, Maha Elsamnah, said it was heartwarming to see hundreds of people calling for her son’s release from the U.S. detention center during Saturday’s protest in Toronto, The Toronto Star [...]
By Moazzam Begg - Cageprisoners.com
His hair has grown, his voice sounds a little deeper and his wounds appear to have healed somewhat. But what isn’t clear from the first ever Guantánamo interrogation video to be released for public consumption is that Omar Khadr is blind in one eye.
The Bagram airbase lies some 30miles [...]
By Andy Worthington
As the Abu Ghraib scandal demonstrates, a photo is worth a thousand words — even if, as Errol Morris’ newly-released documentary Standard Operating Procedure demonstrates, those words are sometimes what the viewer wishes to see, rather than what actually happened.
There is, therefore, enormous excitement in the media about the first ever release of [...]
By Mark Seibel | McClatchy Newspapers
WASHINGTON _ Amnesty International on Tuesday called for the immediate release of a Canadian citizen being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, after his lawyers released copies of a video in which the then-teenage captive sobs and repeatedly cries, “Help me.”
Omar Khadr was 16 when the video was taken [...]
Just days after the MoD has to pay out millions to the father of a man UK soldiers beat to death, fresh claims of abuse emerge
By Andrew Johnson
The IoS has pixellated this image of the boy making the complaint because he is consumed by shame, and lives in fear of retribution from [...]
Mohammad Jawad’s military commission hearing last week was unusual for many reasons. Jawad was a minor when he was captured in Afghanistan and now faces life in prison if convicted for allegedly throwing a hand grenade that wounded two U.S. soldiers and their Afghan interpreter in December 2002. Not only did the pre-trial hearing [...]
Salon.com
GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — When Mohammed Jawad took the stand in a courtroom at the U.S. Naval base here late last week, he described a litany of abuse he has endured while detained at Guantánamo, including a sleep deprivation regime known colloquially as the “frequent flyer” program.
“Day and night, they were shifting me from one [...]
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 [...]
BY CAROL ROSENBERG
crosenberg@MiamiHerald.com
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — Bolstered by a U.S. Supreme Court victory, defense attorneys streamed onto this base Monday to consult alleged al Qaeda captives on whether to sue in federal court over their war-on-terror detention.
The lawyers arrived by early-morning charter from Washington, D.C., organized by the Pentagon’s Office of Military [...]
WASHINGTON (AFP) — US interrogators of “war on terror” detainees were instructed to destroy handwritten notes that might have exposed harsh or even illegal questioning methods at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a lawyer for one of the prisoners said Sunday.
Navy Lieutenant Commander Bill Kuebler said in a statement sent to reporters he considers the notes crucial [...]
UN experts on child rights have criticized US over detention of juveniles in Afghanistan and Iraq and voiced concern about cruel treatment.
He isn’t a criminal, but just the sight of a police officer terrifies 14-year-old Omar. The boy was released last month from an Iraqi prison, after being detained there for more than seven [...]
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