By Jonathan Finer, who spent 18 months in Iraq as a correspondent for The Washington Post between 2003 and 2006
KAFKA COMES TO AMERICA
Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror
By Steven T. Wax
Other. 380 pp. $25.95
Before they were falsely accused of terrorism, Brandon Mayfield, an American lawyer in Oregon, and Adel Hamad, a Sudanese relief [...]
By Sarah Carr
Activists call for the release of April 6 detainees.
CAIRO: Four members of a group of 14 young activists and journalists were released Wednesday, two days after a court ordered they be freed and a week after they were arrested in Alexandria.
It is expected that the remaining members of the April 6 Youth [...]
By Guled Mohamed
NAIROBI (Reuters) - Muslim leaders in Kenya accused a senior government official on Wednesday of blocking the release of a presidential report on injustices against their community, a charge the government immediately denied.
The leaders said Cabinet Secretary and Public Service Head Francis Muthaura had suppressed the findings of the study, which was ordered [...]
By Seth Robson, Stars and Stripes
GRAFENWÖHR, Germany — Four Germany-based soldiers charged with conspiracy to commit premeditated murder in Iraq allegedly took male detainees to a canal and shot them, according to details released by the Army on Tuesday.
An Article 32 hearing for Staff Sgt. Jess Cunningham, Sgt. Charles Quigley, Spc. Stephen Ribordy and Spc. [...]
ISLAMABAD - A habeas corpus petition was filed in Islamabad High Court Tuesday against the alleged captivity of a Pakistani doctor, Aafia Siddiqui and her children at notorious US detention facility in Bagram (Afghanistan).
The petition has been filed by Barrister Javed Iqbal Jaffery, a lawyer who is also pleading the case of Dr A [...]
Pentagon charges another detainee, frees three others
The Associated Press
A military judge penalized U.S. prosecutors Tuesday by blocking their use of a May 2003 interrogation as they finished presenting evidence against Salim Hamdan, the first suspect to be tried on terrorism charges at Guantanamo Bay.
Judge Keith Allred, a U.S. Navy captain, said the government [...]
The Unites States Army has brought charges against four soldiers in connection to the deaths of several detainees in Iraq in early 2007.
“The soldiers were charged with conspiracy to commit premeditated murder,” a statement released by the US Army said on Tuesday.
“The charges relate to an incident that occurred during April/May [...]
..Would this fly in a real court? NO! They will stop at nothing to prosecute these men in a Kangaroo Kourt!
By MIKE MELIA
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — A Pentagon-produced movie about al-Qaida had its premiere Monday at the first Guantanamo war crimes trial — shown to an audience of military jurors hearing [...]
· UK shared information with US, court told
· Lawyers want government to disclose secret files
Richard Norton-Taylor The Guardian,
The security and intelligence agencies were “mixed up in wrongdoing” in cooperating with the US in the unlawful treatment of a UK resident now held in Guantánamo Bay, the high court heard yesterday.
They allegedly gave information to [...]
By Randall Mikkelsen
GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Prosecutors in the trial of Osama bin Laden’s driver unveiled a graphic video on Monday of the September 11 attacks and other al Qaeda operations that is likely to play a repeated role in pending war crimes cases.
The video is entitled “The Al Qaeda Plan,” [...]
by smintheus
The British governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have been shockingly complicit with the Bush administration both in using, encouraging, and facilitating torture, as well as in helping to cover up the traces. Some CIA torture flights passed through the UK, and British-controlled Diego Garcia has served as one of the primary staging [...]
I received a notice from the DoD about a “detainee transfer”. They don’t always announce them, but this time they did. I’ll paste it below. The only detainee who’s name I know was the one I posted yesterday from Qatar, Jaralla al-Marri.
No one is sure why they don’t release the “detainee transfers” all the time [...]
INTRODUCTION
Since shortly after 9/11 – when many Al Qaeda members fled Afghanistan and crossed the border into Pakistan – we have played multiple games of cat and mouse with them. The biggest of them all, Osama bin Laden, is still at large at the time of this writing, but we have caught many, many others. [...]
SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION “For us the restoration of the independent judges is a matter of life and death. We have high hopes with the new government to which we keep telling that our loved ones are illegally detained beyond all laws in the custody of [security] agencies. For us relief is only when our loved [...]
A British citizen facing a military trial in America’s Guantanamo Bay prison camp is launching a legal battle over claims he was tortured into confessing to terror offences.
Binyam Mohamed was detained in Pakistan. He says the British government is refusing to release evidence
that backs up his allegations that he was the victim of extraordinary rendition [...]
CAROL COULTER, Legal Affairs Editor
THE LAWYER representing a British resident detained in Guantánamo Bay has written to Taoiseach Brian Cowen seeking information on CIA flights involved in his client’s “extraordinary rendition” which landed in Shannon in 2002 and 2004.
Clive Stafford Smith wrote to Mr Cowen on Friday on behalf of Binyam Mohamed, whom he is [...]
TORONTO, (UPI) — Nearly 300 protesters in Canada say they want a Toronto-born man released from the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba.
Detainee Omar Khadr’s mother, Maha Elsamnah, said it was heartwarming to see hundreds of people calling for her son’s release from the U.S. detention center during Saturday’s protest in Toronto, The Toronto Star [...]
By Michaela Singer
CAIRO: An Alexandria court on Sunday ordered the release of 14 detained youth belonging to the April 6 movement, but lawyers are skeptical of whether the youths will actually be released.
Lawyer Mohamed Hassan El-Sirry, told Daily News Egypt from Mansheya Court in Alexandria, “There will most likely be a counter-appeal from the [...]
A British resident facing a military trial in Guantanamo Bay is due to launch a legal battle to force the release of evidence allegedly held by the UK Government.
Lawyers acting for Binyam Mohamed, who is accused of terrorism offences, say there are strong grounds for believing the UK security and intelligence services hold the evidence, [...]
By Adel Safty, Special to Gulf News
Illustration by Nino Jose Heredia/Gulf News
Last month the Bush administration suffered two legal defeats regarding its shameful policy of denying due process to detainees held at Guantanamo Bay.
The United States Supreme Court ruled that the Guantanamo detainees had a constitutional right to petition a federal court to challenge [...]
By Khalid Hasan
WASHINGTON: Nayyar Zaidi, the well-known US-based Pakistani-American journalist, who has been a citizen of the United States for more than 30 years has been in US custody for the last four months on what are said to be terrorism-related charges.
According to one report, Zaidi is being held on the charge of “obstruction [...]
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DOHA, Qatar - Qatar’s official news agency says a former inmate at the U.S. detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba has returned home after being released.
The news agency reported that Jaralla al-Marri returned to the Qatari capital, Doha, Sunday.
Al-Marri was detained by American soldiers in Afghanistan in 2001 on [...]
Despite grant of bail, government continues to hold him
Hanover, VA - July 27, 2008 -
More than two weeks after being granted bond by a federal judge, Sami Al-Arian is still being held in prison. In fact, Dr. Al-Arian is now being subjected to the worst treatment by prison officials since his stay in Coleman Federal Penitentiary in Florida [...]
A photo published by the British Daily Mirror on the abuse of Iraqi detainees
The British government has tried to cover up the use of prohibited interrogation techniques by British soldiers in Iraq, lawmakers say.
The Joint Committee on Human Rights, consisted of twelve members from both the House of Commons and the House of Lords, [...]
According to the Observer newspaper this morning Gary McKinnon, the British hacker accused of what US prosecutors refer to the biggest military computer hack of all time, has claimed he was threatened with a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay. His lawyers are using this as part of their defence against his extradition, arguing that such [...]
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