By LARA JAKES
Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) A federal judge has accused the Bush administration of hiding evidence in the case of a Yemen man who has been held as a terror suspect at Guantanamo Bay for six years.
At a hearing Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan rapped Justice Department lawyers for only recently [...]
By WILLIAM GLABERSON
A federal judge in Washington ruled Tuesday that the government was properly holding two Guantánamo detainees as enemy combatants, the first clear-cut victories for the Bush administration in what are expected to be more than 200 similar cases.
The ruling by a federal district judge, Richard J. Leon, followed his decision last month in [...]
Michael Sung
[JURIST] Yemeni security officials have unlawfully and arbitrarily detained hundreds of individuals [press release] as part of its campaign against northern Yemeni rebels since 2004, according to a report [PDF text] released Friday by Human Rights Watch (HRW) [advocacy website]. The report found that government security forces sometimes unlawfully arrested individuals who have committed [...]
SANA’A, (Saba) – A US lawyers team for Yemeni Guantanamo detainees has urged to retry Ramzi al-Shaiba, one of Yemeni detainees at the Guantanamo Bay, who was sentenced to death, the state-run 26sep.net has said.
The team doubted Ramzi’s mental capabilities as he asked the authorities to use the death penalty against him. [...]
Author: Esra’a (Bahrain)
You might remember our previous posts calling for the unblocking of Yemeni websites, all of which remain blocked within the country to this day. But that is not all, owners and editors of the blocked websites have been threatened and harrassed, and at least one has been imprisoned without trial, a legitimate charge [...]
Mohammed al-Qiri
The Yafie tribe of al-Dalie has asked President Ali Abdullah Saleh to use his constitutional commitments towards all Yemeni citizens to secure the release of their kinfolk’s member Amin al-Bakri from the United States’ Bagram prison in Afghanistan.
The Yafie tribe issued a statement over the arrest and detention of al-Bakri since 2002, saying that [...]
By RASHA AL QAHTANI
MANAMA: Families of eight Bahraini teachers were overjoyed at their release after more than four months in a Saudi prison yesterday. They will be home within days, once formalities have been dealt with, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr Nazar Al Baharna told the GDN.
“They will be coming back after the [...]
By Kim Sengupta
Khaled al-Maqtari’s nightmare began when American troops arrived at the al-Ghufran market in Fallujah in January 2004. He was arrested along with other terrorist suspects and taken to Abu Ghraib jail. For the next four years he was held captive, moved from country to country and suffered, he says, appalling torture.
Mr al-Maqtari, from [...]
By Kim Sengupta
Khaled al-Maqtari’s nightmare began when American troops arrived at the al-Ghufran market in Fallujah in January 2004. He was arrested along with other terrorist suspects and taken to Abu Ghraib jail. For the next four years he was held captive, moved from country to country and suffered, he says, appalling torture.
Mr al-Maqtari, [...]
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A Yemeni man has described being held for nearly three years in secret CIA prisons, or “black sites”, around the world and accused the US of torture.
Khaled al-Maqtari told Amnesty International he was held in isolation for more than 28 months without charge or access to any legal representation.
He said he first became a US [...]
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