“Resolved,” Kucinich then began, “that President George W. Bush be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors, and that the following articles of impeachment be exhibited to the United States Senate. …
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 [...]
Four-Day Investigative Series by Pulitzer Prize-Winner Dana Priest and Amy Goldstein
WASHINGTON, DC–(MARKET WIRE)–May 12, 2008 — A four-part Washington Post investigative series by Dana Priest and Amy Goldstein reveals that foreign detainees being kept in network of hidden prisons across the U. S. are receiving below standard medical care that, in many cases, has resulted [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Family of detainee Othman Mohammad Abu Khurj, 38, from Zababda village near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, said that their son is facing gradually deteriorating medical conditions after a soldier injected him with a needle polluted with Hepatitis C.
His wife said that her husband, who was sentenced to one life-term and [...]
H Candace Gorman
This week Judge John B. Bates of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia ruled once again that Guantanamo prisoner Abdul Hamid Al- Ghizzawi was not entitled to any medical care beyond what the government decides he needs, assuming that it is any at all, and that neither Al-Ghizzawi nor [...]
From H. Candace Gorman
(Click Judge Bates Decision to read the judge’s order. Many thanks to Charles Gittings and the Project to enforce the geneva conventions (www. pegc. us / )for posting this so I could link to it… btw one of the many arguments the judge ignored was my geneva convention argument… the judge [...]
Female detainee Shereen Mohammad Hasan, from Bethlehem city, voiced an appeal to several human rights groups to intervene for her release in order to receive adequate medical treatment, as she is losing her sight and suffering a kidney disease.
Shereen is currently under interrogation in Ha-Sharon Israeli prison. During interrogation, one of the soldiers repeatedly slammed [...]
Several Human Rights groups and the family of detainee Yousef Al Shomaly,48, from Beit Sahour, near Bethlehem, voiced an appealed to release Al Shomaly after his health condition had sharply deteriorated in Israeli prisons.
Al Shomaly suffers from a heart disease, and several years ago he underwent an open heart surgery at a Jordanian hospital in [...]
Omar Khadr is a Canadian citizen who was a 15-year-old child soldier when he allegedly killed a U. S. serviceman during a firefight in Afghanistan. The debate about his return to Canada must begin and end there. That the current and past Canadian governments have failed to secure his release and repatriation is a glaring [...]
Lawyers contend US, Canada violated rights of Guantanamo detainee, seek interrogation details
The Associated Press Thursday, March 27, 2008
OTTAWA: The United States has violated international laws by holding a Canadian former child soldier at Guantanamo Bay, his lawyers told Canada’s high court as they sought to force the country’s intelligence service to provide details from their [...]
WASHINGTON — A U.S. Army officer was going to have Canadian Omar Khadr executed after a July 2002 firefight in Afghanistan but was stopped at the last moment by Special Forces troops, according to a diary account.
The witness excerpt, contained in legal briefs released Wednesday by the U.S. Defence Department, confirmed that a second terror [...]
Reprieve is releasing the second in a series of protest pieces called Sketches of My Nightmare, inspired by the suffering of Sami al Haj. Mr. Al Haj is an al-Jazeera journalist picked up covering the Afghan war and sent to Guantánamo Bay. He has been on hunger strike in Guantánamo since January 7, 2007.
Sami al [...]
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, [...]
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