By Murat Kurnaz, 26, Author, Activist
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They used to beat everybody. There was a man — he was really old and couldn’t see and couldn’t hear. If the guards told him something to do and he didn’t do it because he couldn’t hear, they went into his cage and beat him up. They [...]
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 [...]
A teenager captured in Afghanistan and shipped to the U.S. prison remained unknown to the world for five years. Now he’s being tried as an adult.
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — When Mohammed Jawad, a 23-year-old Afghan detainee, was summoned to appear before the military commissions at Guantánamo Bay for his arraignment in March, he told his [...]
This story makes me furious. Has this country become so callous, so heartless that we can simply ignore an ex-detainees accounts of the extreme torture he went through? How can these “lawmakers” go home, eat a nice warm dinner, and sleep soundly? They should be deeply ashamed. I am writing letters, I [...]
By Matthias Gebauer and Holger Stark
For the past three months, the United States military has detained a German citizen in Afghanistan on suspicion of terrorism. German security experts are convinced that the man, who has a history of psychological problems, is innocent.
A German soldier on patrol near Bagram in Afghanistan: The US military is holding [...]
Overcoming Denial
By Hannah Tennant-Moore
For the last two years, my mother has flown to Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, every few months to meet with her pro bono client, a 32-year-old Algerian man named Abdul Aziz Naji. When she explains to friends and acquaintances how Aziz ended up in Guantánamo, where he has been held for nearly six [...]
By Mario de Queiroz
Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo by Murat Kurnaz (UK Guardian, 04-23-2008)
Farrakhan calls for delegation to be sent to Guantanamo (FCN, 05-25-2005)
A brief history of the U.S. military presence in Guantanamo Bay Cuba (HistoryofCuba.com)
LISBON, Portugal (IPS/GIN) - A British lawyer has warned that the Portuguese government may face [...]
By Aditya Rajagopalan
News Staff Writer
For years, Americans have responded in outrage when hearing of the jailing of monks, the incessant scourge of Tibetan cities, or the reprehensible human rights violations persisting in Tibet. And with the recent uprisings that have proliferated across Tibet, Americans have rightfully sought to “free Tibet,”; many have even called [...]
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By: Andy Davies
A German-born former Guantanamo detainee says he was wrongly identified as a Taliban accomplice.
He was, he says, in the wrong place at the wrong time, pulled off a bus in Pakistan and wrongly identified as a Taliban accomplice - despite evidence that he had no known links to terrorist [...]
The US military have been holding a German citizen in custody in Kabul after he tried to buy a shaver in a military supermarket. German intelligence agencies have found no grounds for suspecting he could be a terrorist and the German foreign ministry is now working to secure his release.
The US [...]
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 [...]
On the March 30 edition of “60 Minutes” it was revealed that a German citizen who was in Pakistan was fingered by some Pakistanis as a suspected terrorist.
The German man was hastily taken to Afghanistan by U. S. authorities and tortured to force him to tell any secrets that he might be concealing. This process [...]
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