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Archive for August 8th, 2008

Liberate Prisoner 650 - The Grey Lady of Bagram - Petition

Prisoner 650 is a Pakistani Muslim woman held by the  American military for many years without trial in the notorious Bagram Prison in Afghanistan. Her screams have reached the ears of many ex inmates and others who have visited the prison. They all claim that the screams still haunts them. They have labelled her the [...]

Rosa Brooks: U.S. needs ‘truth commission’ on war crimes

Rosa Brooks
Even war criminals have fan clubs. Last week, 15,000 people in Belgrade, Serbia, protested the transfer of indicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic to the International Criminal Tribunal at The Hague. Karadzic is implicated in torture, rape, murder and genocide, but to some self-styled Serbian patriots, these are mere details.
“Long Live Radovan!” chanted the protesters.
For [...]

Guantanamo detainee petitions rights panel over torture

WASHINGTON (AFP) — A Guantanamo detainee on Wednesday urged a human rights panel that investigates abuse cases in the Americas to review his accusations that he was tortured in the US “war on terror” prison.
Djamel Ameziane, an Algerian who has been held at the US naval base in Cuba for six years as an “enemy [...]

Systematized sleep deprivation at Guantanamo persisted far longer than previously admitted

Stephen Soldz

Today’s Washington Post brings further information on the Pentagon’s duplicity at Guantanamo. After Guantanamo officials claimed that the “frequent flyer” psychological torture program was shut down, they continued using it for many months, at least. The “frequent flyer” program involves frequent moves from cell to cell for days or weeks on end, [...]

US has no plans to free Hamdan

..SHAM Kangaroo Kourt strikes again, from Aafia S. to this… clearly there will be NO Justice for the Guantanamo detainees!  We cannot let this happen!
SALIM Hamdan will continue to be held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as an enemy combatant after he serves out a five and half year sentence for providing material support for [...]

‘My sister is innocent’

By AZAM KHAN
ISLAMABAD - Dr Fozia, sister of Dr Afia, has said that Dr Afia is innocent but for a long time, she had been facing inhuman treatment from the US authorities at bloody Bagram torture cell.  She was addressing a press conference here on Thursday.  She said, “My sister is so weak, that her [...]

Mystery of Siddiqui disappearance

By Syed Shoaib Hasan
BBC News, Islamabad

Some reports say Aafia Siddiqui was part of an al-Qaeda sleeper cell

Aafia Siddiqui, whom the US accuses of al-Qaeda links, vanished in Karachi with her three children on 30 March 2003.
The next day it was reported in local newspapers that a woman had [...]

And the children… ?

A little more clarity has emerged in respect of Aafia Siddiqui who appeared in a New York court on Aug 5 and was ordered to be held without bail. We now at least know that she is alive, though not in the best of health according to eyewitness reports from the courtroom. We also know [...]

Hamdan verdict without justification

A military jury has sentenced Osama bin Laden’s fromer-driver, Salim Hamdan to five years and six months in prison for supporting terrorism.
In an exclusive interview with press TV, Gareth Peirce, a prominent human right lawyer said that Hamdan’s verdict has no legal justification.
“There is no logical legal sense to it that anyone can [...]

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