[Speaking Truth To Power]
Ever since the shoelacking of George Bush by Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi, the shoe has become the latest symbol of protest against the bloody legacy of George Bush.
Zeidi, an Iraqi reporter for the Al Baghdalia Television in Cairo, Egypt, threw both his shoes at Bush during a press conference in Iraq as [...]
War With Contempt for Civilians
By BRIAN CLOUGHLEY
In September an Afghan journalist, Jawed Ahmad, was released from a US military prison in Afghanistan where his jailers ” broke two of my ribs during the beatings.” He worked for Canadian TV and the BBC, among other media outlets, and he had done nothing wrong. That is obvious, [...]
By Correspondent Njonanje Samwel
Consideration to dignity, security and welfare of detainees and victims of wars are among factors that prohibit International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from disclosing information of what is really going on in detention camps and conflict areas such as killing and torture of the detainees.
A representative of ICRC -Tanzania [...]
By Andy Worthington
In brighter times, before a fog of fear descended on the United States, and the discourse of decent men and women was coarsened by an acceptance of the use of torture as a “no-brainer,” it would have been inconceivable that an American could have been held for seven years without charge or trial [...]
By Andy Worthington
From Britney to Barney, any music can drive you mad if it’s played enough. And unlike with physical torture, you can’t mentally prepare yourself.
There’s an ambiguous undercurrent to the catchy pop smash that introduced a pig-tailed Britney Spears to the world in 1999 — so much so that Jive Records changed the song’s [...]
Video By Al Jazeera
Since 1967, some 75,000, men and women have been in and out Israelis prison where they had been jailed for long periods of time. A large number of them say have been subjected to severe torture that left many of them physically and mentally handicapped. Some of the old ex-prisoners have kept [...]
Outgoing VP says Guantanamo prison should stay open until end of terror war, but has no idea when that might be.
David Edwards and Stephen C. Webster
Monday, outgoing Vice President Dick Cheney made a startling statement on a nation-wide, televised broadcast.
When asked by ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl whether he approved of interrogation tactics used against [...]
Obama and the national security question: the sellout accelerates
Christopher Hitchens lasted seconds under waterboarding. And they say it isn’t torture
Until recently, “waterboarding” was something that Americans did to other Americans. It was inflicted, and endured, by those members of the special forces who underwent the advanced form of training known as Sere (survival, evasion, resistance, escape). In these harsh exercises, brave men and [...]
By Ali Gharib and Zainab Mineeia, IPS News
“We’re getting out of the detention business,” says a U.S. military spokesman.
WASHINGTON, - An estimated 17,000 Iraqis detained in their own country by occupying U.S. forces may soon face transfer into an Iraqi government detention system where reports of abuse and torture are commonplace, says a [...]
Srinagar: After hearing case of Tariq Ahmad Shah, son of Gh. Nabi Shah, resident of Babmohalla Bijbehara who has been jailed under Public Safety Act, District and Session Judge Anantnag: passed an order Saturday, directing the administration to transfer him from Kotbilwal Jail to Central Jail Srinager.
Counsel of Shah pleaded in the Court that police [...]
LONDON (AFP) — The government is to investigate alleged mistreatment of one of its nationals held at the Guantanamo Bay US detention camp, an official said on Friday.
Binyam Mohamed, who was detained in Pakistan in 2002, and is the last remaining Guantanamo detainee with a right to return to Britain, has been held in the [...]
WEBWIRE
NEW YORK – A federal court today ordered the Department of Defense to release photographs depicting the abuse of detainees by U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected the government’s appeal of a 2006 order directing the Defense Department to release the photos. Today’s decision comes [...]
Canadian who was imprisoned in Sudan lifted shirt to show scars to MP questioning him, Federal Court told
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EXILED IN SUDAN THE ABDELRAZIK CASE
PAUL KORING
Ministers in the Harper government were presented with evidence that a Canadian citizen had been tortured in [...]
Once upon a time, Americans were fond of looking upon places where law was whatever the king said it was, and noting with pride that we do things differently in our country. But that was a day long ago and a country long gone.
By Leonard Pitts Jr
Syndicated columnist
Meanwhile, back at the War on Terror …
You [...]
Waterboarding Got White House Nod
By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency’s use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects — documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials about a possible backlash if details of [...]
Guess what this is used for? Many of you already know. Sami al-Haj certainly knows. This is a torture device. Make no bones about it. This is the restraint chair used for force-feeding detainees on hunger strike.
In the past detainees had feeding tubes inserted and they stayed there. The detainee would then be fed liquid [...]
Waterboarding Got White House Nod
By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
The Bush administration issued a pair of secret memos to the CIA in 2003 and 2004 that explicitly endorsed the agency’s use of interrogation techniques such as waterboarding against al-Qaeda suspects — documents prompted by worries among intelligence officials about a possible backlash if details of [...]
Public At Last
By STEPHEN SOLDZ
One of the most important documents of the U.S. torture program has just become publicly available for the first time. This is the JTF GTMO “SERE” Interrogation Standard Operating Procedure, now posted on the website of the new documentary, Torturing Democracy. This document clearly specifies that the abusive interrogation techniques [...]
By Andy Worthington
Published on the website of the new documentary Torturing Democracy, and immediately reported by psychoanalyst and psychologist Stephen Soldz, the Standard Operating Procedure for SERE interrogations at Guantánamo — based on the counter-interrogation techniques taught by the US military at its SERE schools (Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape) — is not quite the [...]
The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld
By RON JACOBS
Logic is a process whereby one makes an argument based on a premise. If the premise is false, the process of logic can still prove it, albeit possibly not as easily or convincingly as a true premise. Law follows the process of logic in deciding human guilt or innocence. [...]
By Jason Burke
After years in detention, Afghan returnees have bitter memories as they face new hardships. Jason Burke reports from Kabul
Abdul Nasir, right, and his brother in Kabul. Photograph: Jason Burke
They call them the Bandi Guantánamo, the Guantánamo returnees, and their welcome home is far from warm. All across Afghanistan in recent months, scores [...]
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 [...]
By Guardian Correspondent, Zanzibar
A Man who was implicated in the 1998 US embassy bombings in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam Suleiman Abdallah Salim was released and returned home safely on Saturday under the escort of the Red Cross.
Speaking to this paper here in Zanzibar, Salim said he was arrested in Somalia`s capital Mogadishu in 2003, [...]
By Rose Mwalongo
The US government has said it will take tough measures against its officials if proved that they illegally detained and tortured Suleiman Abdallah Salim, a Tanzanian arrested five years ago for allegedly being involved in the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi.
Salim, who was brought back to [...]
Guantanamo Bay News
