by Ernesto Cienfuegos
La Voz de Aztlan
Dr. Aafia Siddiqui (ACN) It appears that the Bush Administration may have another “Abu Ghraib Prison” type torture scandal in its hands that it is desperately attempting to cover up. The disturbing human rights case involves a Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Brandeis University educated Pakistani national that mysteriously [...]
PRESS RELEASE
Aafia Siddiqui claims she was held by the US in Bagram for years
Cageprisoners has received new information that Aafia Siddiqui was held for years in Bagram Airbase. According to her lawyer, Elaine Whitfield Sharp,
“We do know she was at Bagram for a long time. It was a long time. According to my client [...]
SAEED SHAH
From Wednesday’s Globe and Mail
Fauzia Siddiqui, sister of U.S.-trained neuroscientist Aafia Siddiqui,
speaks during a news conference in Karachi August 5, 2008.
Pakistan has demanded consular access to a Pakistani woman with
suspected links to al Qaeda who is due to be arraigned in New York
on Tuesday on charges of attempting to murder [...]
..The USA are the new Nazis, as you can clearly see from this photograph of her after her concentration camp experience. Surely the death of her two youngest children and her sexual abuse is enough! Does she look like she is healthy enough to have picked up a rifle, much less shot it???
By Scott [...]
As a former Special Operations commander from the sixties and having been substantially involved with the training of US Army combat troops during the Vietnam and Berlin Crisis era – I have a good feel for the nature of the American serviceman, - or at least I THOUGHT that I did. Apparently there has been [...]
Spencer Ackerman
If the era of unconscious American patriotism that began on September 11 ended in April 2004, when CBS News and the New Yorker magazine published the infamous torture photographs from Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, then perhaps the hangover of euphemism that clouded America’s understanding of its post-September 11 wars began to lift on June [...]
Naomi Wolf
NEW YORK - Sex crime has a telltale signature, even when those directing the outrages are some of the most powerful men and women in the United States. How extraordinary, then, to learn that one of the perpetrators of these crimes, Condoleezza Rice, has just led the debate in a special session [...]
Tehran Times Political Desk
TEHRAN — British journalist Yvonne Ridley flew to Pakistan on a whirlwind trip this week to highlight the plight of a woman who has been held in U.S. custody for more than four years.
She referred to the woman, known only by her prisoner number 650, as The Grey Lady of Bagram.
More than [...]
One Iraqi prisoner, identified only as Yasser, reported being subjected to electric shocks three times and being sodomised with a stick. His thumbs bore round scars consistent with shocking, Physicians for Human Rights said in report obtained by The Associated Press before its official release. He would not allow a full rectal exam.
Guantanamo Bay News
