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Archive for August 20th, 2008

Doctors protest Aafia’s detention

Staff Reporter

LAHORE: A large number of doctors Wednesday staged a protest outside the Lahore Press Club for the early release of Dr Aafia from the US custody. The protest was organised by the Pakistan Medical Association Lahore.
The protesters were carrying placards and banners inscribed with anti-US slogans. They protested for about half an hour. [...]

Alleged Al-Qaeda arms supplier denied bail

OTTAWA (AFP) — An older brother of the only Canadian held at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba was denied bail in Canada, where he has been jailed since 2005 for alleged arms sales to Al-Qaeda, a court said Wednesday.
Abdullah Khadr, 27, has been jailed in Toronto since he returned to Canada in [...]

Legal Logjam May Be Ahead

Attorneys for Guantanamo Detainees Cite Dearth of Interpreters
By Del Quentin Wilber
Washington Post Staff Writer

Lawyers representing many of the 265 detainees at Guantanamo Bay say they are heading for a unexpected logjam that could delay federal court hearings: a shortage of interpreters.
After the Supreme Court ruled that terrorism suspects held at the military prison in Cuba [...]

US accused of war crimes over torture methods

The use of torture by the US Government in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in New York on September 11, 2001 has come under increasing criticism.
In 1863 at the height of the US civil war, president Abraham Lincoln set the principles for interrogation of prisoners with a famous instruction “military necessity does not admit [...]

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