I’m speechless. Simply without words to express the horror I feel as I read this article. No sight in one eye, the other is going, He grew up in a 6×8 cell alone. He’d just lost his father before he was taken… what do they expect him to do or say? His health is terrible [...]
By BEN FOX
Associated Press Writer
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - The alleged “20th hijacker” in the Sept. 11 attacks tried to kill himself at Guantanamo last month, his lawyer disclosed Tuesday, saying the Saudi prisoner was distraught over a possible death sentence for charges later dropped by the Pentagon.
Mohammed al-Qahtani cut himself at least three [...]
As time marches on, Saifullah Paracha remains behind a cage door in Guantanamo. His health problems worsen, and he needs a heart procedure that cannot be done at Guantanamo. He is not the only detainee there who is seriously ill. He has been seriously ill since he was arrested. In fact, [...]
KHARTOUM, Sudan - Al-Jazeera cameraman Sami al-Haj returned home to Sudan on Friday, a day after being released from six years of custody at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp where described conditions as “bad and getting worse.”
Al-Haj, 38, whose detention drew worldwide condemnation, was released from the U.S. military prison along with two other Sudanese. [...]
By Opheera McDoom
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Al Jazeera journalist Sami al-Haj returned home to Sudan on Friday after more than six years in the U.S.-run Guantanamo Bay prison, urging Washington to respect human rights and branding torture as terrorism.
Haj said he and the other Guantanamo detainees had been subjected to all kinds of torture, but the [...]
By Rhodri Davies
Mohammed al-Haj, Sami’s son, sent a message to his father from Al Jazeera’s offices
Mohammed al-Haj, Sami’s son, sent a message to his father from Al Jazeera’s offices
Wearing a pristine white thobe, a dark skinned eight-year-old boy of Sudanese decent looks into a video camera.
He says: “Ana bahibak baba” (I love you dad) - [...]
By Miral Sattar
2006
I had been following Uzair Paracha’s trial closely in the news. I, like many others, was confident the jury would announce a ‘not guilty’ verdict.
Uzair Paracha, 26, is a Pakistani native and a graduate from the elite business school IBA, Institute of Business Administration. He is a legal immigrant who grew up in [...]
TULKAREM,, (WAFA)-Prisoners’ family in Tulkarem appealed on Saturday to all international human rights organizations to immediately intervene before the Israeli side to release its detainee son from Nafha Israeli jail.
The family said that its son Eyad Nassar 38, is in a bad health condition and his health is deteriorating, adding he is in need to [...]
Dr. Al-Arian Faces Shocking Abuse in New Facility & ACTION
Yesterday morning, Dr. Sami Al-Arian was transported by immigration agents to the Hampton Roads Regional Jail in Portsmouth, Virginia. Since arriving at the facility, he has been subjected to numerous, shocking abuses, even worse than those he experienced at a detention center in Maryland.
When Dr. Al-Arian [...]
Posted by Amad
This case is one of the most severe cases of injustice that Muslims have faced in recent history. Unfortunately, some of our brothers (like this) have fallen to the right-wing Islamophobic propaganda against our brother.
As Imam Mahdi notes, “As a community we must continue to insist that the government end its manipulation of [...]
A gravely ill detainee I represent, never charged with a crime, has been neglected by military doctors. Will he be the next to die inside the notorious prison?
By H. Candace Gorman
AP Photo/Brennan Linsley
A Guantanamo detainee sits inside the detention facility on Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba, Tuesday, Oct. 9, [...]
Monday, March 10, 2008
*COUNSEL VISIT OF FEBRUARY 26-27 2008* (UPDATE ON al Ghizzawi)
Counsel for Al-Ghizzawi visited with Al-Ghizzawi all day on February 26th and for a half day on February 27th , 2008. Al-Ghizzawi’s health continues to worsen. The symptoms that Al-Ghizzawi either complained of during this latest visit, or which were observed by [...]
By Andy WorthingtonOn February 5, the New York Times published a front-page story by Carlotta Gall and myself, Time Runs Out for an Afghan Held by the U.S., about Abdul Razzaq Hekmati, a 68-year old Afghan detainee who died in Guantánamo on December 30, 2007, in which we established that Mr. Hekmati, known to the [...]
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