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Hassan Almrei was detained in October 2001 on charges by Canada’s spy service that he once belonged to a terrorist forgery ring.
Michelle Shephard
National Security Reporter
The last remaining terrorism suspect who has been held for seven years under a “national security certificate” has been ordered released from detention.
Federal court Justice [...]
Portugal is willing to receive detainees from the US-run Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, Luis Amado, the foreign minister, has said.
He said there had “been a clear consensus [in Europe] throughout on the need to close this detention centre”.
The detention of inmates without trial has tainted the US’s human rights record, and Barack Obama, the US president-elect, has [...]
By CORINNE REILLY
McClatchy Newspapers
In recent months, the American military has begun freeing many of the Iraqi prisoners it’s been holding without charges and aims to release all of them by December 2009, according to U.S. military data and interviews with military officials.
In the five and a half years since the Iraq war began, U.S. troops [...]
By ALISSA J. RUBIN
CAMP BUCCA, Iraq — America’s largest detention facility is here in Iraq’s southern desert, and it sits at the center of one of the most complex debates in the transition from American military rule to full Iraqi sovereignty: what to do with the 5,000 Iraqi prisoners whom the United States military considers [...]
Stars and Stripes
At least 2,000 more detainees will be released before the end of the year in an ongoing effort to reduce the number held in American facilities in Iraq, officials said Thursday.
The releases are tied to the Hajj, the Islamic pilgrimage that falls between Dec. 6 and 11 this [...]
By Steve Hendrix
Washington Post Staff Writer
When U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina was looking for a place in the United States to send 17 Chinese Muslim detainees he wants released from Guantanamo Bay, the Washington area was an obvious choice. The region is home to the country’s largest concentration of refugees from the men’s ethnic [...]
Andrew Gilmore at 8:49 AM ET
[JURIST] The Pakistani Ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani [official profile], met with US officials on Sunday to discuss the release of six Pakistani citizens currently being held at the US military detention center at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive]. Pakistani media outlets, including the Associated Press of Pakistan [...]
KABUL: The US military authorities have released three detainees from its Bagram detention facility north of Kabul, capital of Afghanistan.
A statement issued by the coalition forces on Sunday said the three men were released in the spirit of the holy month of Ramadan and were handed over to the government of Afghanistan.
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…Ok this one is begging for a comment. The US praising another country for releasing IT’S detainees? I have decided that I will buy a pizza for anyone who has a really good comment to insert here instead of this one… since I am so…. speechless that my mind has escaped me… just leave a [...]
..let me just remind you that Saudi is going to take our Guantanamo detainees… all makes sense now, huh? They don’t want to release these men, either……
By RASHA AL QAHTANI
SAUDI human rights groups are being urged to step up pressure on their government to secure the release of two jailed Bahrainis.
Abdulraheem Al Murbati was [...]
..To bad we couldn’t assure they wouldn’t be tortured by us!
WASHINGTON, July 17 (UPI) — To assure detainees won’t be tortured after transfer from U.S. custody, assurances must be evaluated, a new report from the Council on Foreign Relations says.
The report, released Thursday by the non-partisan foreign policy organization, says if the United States is [...]
by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies
Palestinian detainee Samer Shirab, was released from an Israeli detention facility this week. He spent seven years in detention and in the past he was imprisoned for more than five and a half years following his abduction by the soldiers in 1996.
The family was relieved after his [...]
Will the two Algerians freed from Guantánamo be treated fairly?
by Andy Worthington
It doesn’t take much investigation to discover that Algeria has a bleak human rights record, which is one of the reasons that, until last week, when 49-year-old Mustafa Hamlili and 28-year-old Abdul Raham [...]
By Robert Parry
The first Guantanamo Bay “enemy combatant” review case to go before a federal appeals court has offered a peek down the rabbit hole of capricious irrationality that underlies George W. Bush’s [...]
In the first ruling of its kind, a US court has overturned the designation of an inmate at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp as an “enemy combatant”.
The appeal court judges said the Pentagon must either free or transfer Huzaifa Parhat or hold a fresh hearing.
Mr Parhat, a Muslim from China, was captured in [...]
Israel will reportedly release a Lebanese detainee sentenced by the regime to six years in jail in 2002 and it will free more prisoners soon.
“Nassim Nisr called a few days ago and informed us that he will be released on Sunday,” his brother Omran Nisr told AFP on Tuesday.
Nassim, born in 1968 to a Jewish [...]
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 [...]
By Wisam Mohammed
BAGHDAD, April 14 (Reuters) - A British journalist held for two months by kidnappers in the southern Iraqi city of Basra was rescued on Monday by Iraqi forces sweeping through the city in a crackdown on militants, the Iraqi military said.
Richard Butler, a photographer on assignment for the U.S. network CBS, had been [...]
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 [...]
By ROBERT H. REID – 1 hour ago
BAGHDAD (AP) — An Iraqi judicial committee has dismissed terrorism-related allegations against Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein and ordered him released nearly two years after he was detained by the U. S. military.
Hussein, 36, remained in custody Wednesday at Camp Cropper, a U. S. detention facility near Baghdad’s [...]
“This is the time to demonstrate to the world that the United States need not abandon its principles even as it seeks to ensure the safety of its citizens.” Janet Reno, former Attorney General and member of ACLU Guantanamo Defense “Dream Team”
It’s a difficult question, but it deserves a serious answer. Here’s why. The only [...]
[JURIST] The US Department of Defense (DOD) [official website] plans to file unspecified terrorism-related charges against one of two UK residents [JURIST report] still remaining at Guantanamo Bay, US and British officials told the New York Times Wednesday. UK officials have reportedly objected to plans to try Ethiopian detainee Binyam Mohamed [Reprieve profile] before a [...]
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