Common Dreams Saturday, October 22, 2011 George Bush’s arrival inCanadafor an economics summit was met by protests and a torture complaint – including a proposed 69-page indictment – brought by international human rights lawyers on behalf of one current and three former Guantánamo detainees. TheBritish Columbia Provincial CourtinSurreyset a Jan. 9 hearing date. Democracy [...]
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Guantánamo Suicide Was Severely Mentally Ill, And Was A Case of Mistaken Identity
Guantánamo Suicide Was Severely Mentally Ill, And Was A Case of Mistaken Identity Andy Worthington Andy Worthington is the author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison (published by Pluto Press, distributed by Macmillan in the US May 22, 2011 There is cruelty. There is stupidity. And [...]
Detainee 239.
by Felicity Arbuthnot On Tuesday,13th April, as British politicians travelled the country, promising a brave new world on Election day (6th May) a letter was delivered to the British Prime Minister’s residence, Number 10, Downing Street. Both former Prime Minister Gordon Brown and his successor, Conservative leader, David Cameron, have made much, recently, on television, [...]
The Omar Khadr case makes a mockery of US justice
Posted by Yo Zushi – The New Statesman - 10 August 2010 After eight years in Guantanamo, the last western ‘enemy combatant’ faces a deeply flawed trial. Omar Khadr was a badly wounded boy of 15 when, in 2002, US forces captured him in Afghanistan. As the dust settled on a suspected al-Qaeda compound after a [...]
As Khadr ‘Trial’ Looms, Military Rules Disputed Confessions Admissible
Prosecutors Insisted Abuse Didn’t Effect Confessions by Jason Ditz Antiwar Forum – August 09, 2010 The Obama Administration’s military “trial” against Omar Khadr at Guantanamo Bay is expected to begin as soon as Tuesday, following a ruling form a military judge that the confessions made by Khadr are admissible. Khadr, a Canadian citizen, was 15 [...]
When it comes to waterboarding, labels matter
The press’s failure to call waterboarding torture impedes honest discussion of the darkest years of the Bush presidency Dan Kennedy guardian.co.uk – 6 July 2010 On 18 September 1945, barely a month after the Japanese surrender had brought second world war to a close, a sickening story appeared on page two of the New York [...]
20% failure rate in Saudi Gitmo rehab programme
Middle East Online – 20 June 2010 Twenty-five former Saudi detainees of Guantanamo prison make contacts with militants. RIYADH – Twenty percent of ex-Guantanamo prisoners who graduated from Saudi Arabia’s rehabilitation programme made contacts with militants, a senior Saudi counter-terror official said on Saturday. Twenty-five of the 120 former detainees at the US “war-on-terror” prison committed [...]
Robert Fisk: Silenced for speaking the truth about Guantanamo
Independent - 15 May 2010 I began my column last week with the words “We know all about Guantanamo”. I was wrong. Courtesy of the Toronto press – until a few days ago, when half of them were censored out of the drumhead courts martial that pass for “justice” in this execrable place – I have [...]
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