By Andrew Sullivan
That’s how this administration has described all those detained in Guantanamo Bay. Some are. Many, many are not. And it’s one thing to shepherd mistakes and innocents hors de combat; it’s another thing to strip, abuse, humiliate and torture them as well. Jeffrey Rosen reviews My Guantanamo Diary today:
Other Afghan detainees who languished [...]
By Stephen Soldz
WHEN MOST people think of psychologists, they think of a professional helping them with life’s emotional difficulties, or of a researcher studying human or animal behavior. Since the Bush administration and the war on terrorism have transformed our country, however, a new, more ominous image of psychologists has slowly seeped into public consciousness.
Psychologists [...]
Sign the petition to free Doctors Kamiar and Arash Alaei
Physicians for Human Rights today urged the Iranian government to end the incommunicado detention of Drs. Arash Alaei and Kamiar Alaei, two Iranian physicians who have reportedly been detained in Iran by Iranian authorities. The physicians, who are brothers, were apparently arrested at the end of [...]
AMSTERDAM, NY– When Kamiar and Arash Alaei were detained in Iran this June, Ladon Alomar couldn’t believe the news.
For weeks their whereabouts unknown.
No charges made public.
“They are two very intelligent young men, they are passionate to make a difference on the health of the community,” Alomar, the executive director of Centro Civico said.
Respected around [...]
NEW YORK - A senior Pakistani Embassy diplomat, who met with Aafia Siddqui in the Brooklyn detention center on Saturday, assured her that the embassy would make all possible efforts to ensure that her rights as an under-trial prisoner were respected.
Counsellor Faqir Syed Asif Hussain had 2-1/2-hour meeting with Ms Siddiqui after United States authorities [...]
Our Correspondent
MULTAN: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that he has issued instructions to the Pakistani mission in Washington to provide legal assistance to Dr Aafia Siddiqui in her case. Talking to the media people here, the foreign minister said that as soon as the incarceration of Dr Aafia came to his knowledge he [...]
By Khalid Hasan
WASHINGTON: Dr Aafia Siddiqui, when asked by a Pakistani embassy representative on Saturday as to her whereabouts and movements since her disappearance from Karachi, along with her three children, on 30 March 2003, refused to say anything, that being her lawyer’s advice.
Faqir Asif Hussain, consular at the Pakistan embassy in Washington, was [...]
The courtroom was packed. Sketch artists were in place. Journalists and other spectators squeezed into seats. Marshals kept a watchful eye.
Mark Lenihan/Associated Press
Aafia Siddiqui is accused of shooting at F.B.I. agents.
The place was Federal District Court in Manhattan, where a Pakistani neuroscientist was to be arraigned on criminal charges on Tuesday. Government officials have said [...]
By Usman Manzoor
ISLAMABAD: Another debate has erupted after Barrister Iqbal Jafferi’s petition in the Islamabad High Court in which he has submitted that a huge amount of bounty money was received for handing over Dr Aafia Siddiqui to the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
Barrister Jafferi, in his petition filed on August 8, has accused [...]
By Masood Haider
NEW YORK, Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani neuroscientist who is being held without bail in New York, has said that she is innocent of the charges made against her by the US authorities, expressing a hope that she will be acquitted following her trial.
Aafia Siddiqui is charged with attempting to kill FBI agents and [...]
By Skyla Bryant
The Pampa News
A Lunchtime Liberty Update from the Center for Individual Freedom (CFIF) was delivered to my e-mail inbox this past Friday. Embedded within the update was a link to an article concerning a recent Supreme Court decision to allow prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, read “enemy combatants,” to proceed with lawsuits against [...]
Joseph Logan
There are 360 children among the detainees, down from 500 in May. Many have been held for months, and some for more than a year, often without access to the educational services provided to children at one MNF facility. Those children referred to trial by the MNF are held at an Iraqi facility described [...]
The Pentagon must see sense and accept the verdict of its own tribunal at Guantanamo
The Pentagon and US military prosecutors were quick to hail the verdict on Salim Hamdan, the first Guantanamo detainee to be tried by the special military tribunal. They insisted that his acquittal on conspiracy charges and the light sentence passed on [...]
Guantanamo Bay News
