By Agustín Velloso
When you approach the Erez frontier post to enter Gaza from the north, you notice a concentration camp straightaway even if you may never have seen one like the ones turned into museums or educational centres, or like the ones that appear in documentaries or photographs.
An observation balloon, innocently painted white, rocks gently [...]
By JOANNE MARINER
“We will continue to bring the world’s most dangerous terrorists to justice,” President George Bush said in 2006, explaining why Congress needed to pass a bill to allow detained terrorist suspects to be prosecuted in military commissions. That same month, the Republican-controlled Congress voted in favor of the legislation that the Administration wanted, [...]
By Stuart Littlewood – London, UK
At last, an explanation (of sorts) for the assault on Mohammed Omer by Israeli security officials has finally landed on my doormat.
It comes in the form of a letter from the Israeli Embassy in London to my MP, and refers to the “security check” Mohammed was put through when he [...]
James Sturcke
Last remaining Guantánamo Bay detainee with automatic right to return to UK faces death penalty after being charged with terrorism offences by Pentagon
Binyam Mohamed, the last remaining Guantánamo Bay detainee with an automatic right to return to the UK, faces the death penalty after being
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By VOA News
Pakistan’s parliament has demanded the immediate repatriation of a Pakistani woman held in the United States on charges of trying to kill U.S. federal agents in Afghanistan.
Aafia Siddiqui, a U.S.-educated scientist, was detained by U.S. forces in Afghanistan last month. U.S. authorities extradited Siddiqui to New York this month to face charges of [...]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is seeking consular access and a delegation of parliamentarians will visit the USA to meet Dr Aafia Siddiqi, currently under detention in New York.
Foreign Office spokesman Muhammad Sadiq said in his weekly briefing here on Thursday He said that the matter of Dr Aafia Siddiqi’s repatriation to Pakistan had also been taken up [...]
LONDON (AP) - A British court ordered Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Thursday to disclose secret documents that could prove critical to the defense of a Guantanamo Bay detainee who claims he was tortured while in U.S. custody on terrorism charges.
Miliband now has a week to decide whether to comply with the order to
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BAGHDAD (AP) — The U.S. military released an Iraqi television cameraman for the Reuters news agency and other news organizations without charges Thursday after 23 days in detention.
Ali al-Mashhadani, who also works for the British Broadcasting Corp. and National Public Radio, had been detained twice before, including for a five-month stretch.
Al-Mashhadani was freed “because he [...]
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