..WHAT? I thought they were closing Guantanamo!
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — The commander of the Guantanamo Bay detention center said Saturday he has been researching new potential accommodations for Osama bin Laden’s driver, who could be held here indefinitely regardless of the verdict at his war crimes trial.
A jury of American military officers [...]
NABLUS, West Bank (AFP) — Fatah security forces of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Friday released several Hamas militants arrested in the West Bank in recent days, a Palestinian official said.
“Four Hamas militants, including Mohammed Ghazal, a member of the Hamas leadership in the West Bank, have been released on Abbas’s orders,” the official said, [...]
BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. military says it has released more than 10,000 detainees in Iraq so far this year — more than in all of 2007.
The military says in a statement on Saturday that it is currently holding about 21,000 detainees in Iraq.
The military said that more than 8,900 people left detention last year.
The [...]
By rasha al qahtani
BAHRAIN human rights activists and their Saudi counterparts will soon meet to discuss efforts in the release of two Bahraini men, who are being held without charge there.
The Bahrain Human Rights Watch Society (BHRWS) said that the Saudi Human Rights Commission will help follow up the cases of Abdulraheem Al Murbati and [...]
By JONATHAN MAHLER
Chief Prosecutor Robert Jackson opened the proceedings at Nuremberg not with a list of Nazi atrocities but with a tribute to the war-crimes court itself: “That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law [...]
The existence of a secret, CIA-run prison on the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean has long been a leaky secret in the “War on Terror,” and today’s revelations in TIME — based on disclosures by a “senior American official” (now retired), who was “a frequent participant in White House Situation Room meetings” [...]
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 Murat Kurnaz, 26, Author, Activist
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They used to beat everybody. There was a man — he was really old and couldn’t see and couldn’t hear. If the guards told him something to do and he didn’t do it because he couldn’t hear, they went into his cage and beat him up. They [...]
By Christopher Arendt, 24, Student
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I liked working night shifts, because whenever they were awake, I wanted to apologize to them. When they were sleeping, I didn’t have to worry about that. I could just walk up and down the blocks all night long.
There was usually one detainee who would lead the [...]
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