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« Previous EntriesNumber of juveniles held at Guantanamo almost twice official Pentagon figure
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008By Andy Worthington | Canadian national Omar Khadr is still being held at Guantanamo Bay. Accused of murder, Khadr was captured in Afghanistan in 2002 when he was 15. On Sunday, the Pentagon admitted that 12 juveniles -- those under the age of 18 at the time their alleged crimes took place -- have been held at Guantanamo Bay (as opposed to the figure of eight that was submitted to ...
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The GOP Judge Who Bolted on Gitmo
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008By Robert Parry | consortiumnews.com To understand how thin the evidence must have been against five Algerians held at Guantanamo Bay for nearly seven years – and who were just ordered released by a U.S. District Court judge – you have to know the history of that judge, Richard J. Leon. Earlier in his career – before getting appointed to the bench by George W. Bush in 2002 ...
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Guantanamo: How many children were held?
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008The ACLU raises the issue of government lying about the number of children detained at Guantanamo.This follows a release last week on incontrovertible evidence that the Pentagon was distorting the number of children held. It appears that virtually no claim made by US authorities regarding detention and interrogation operations is reliable: Pentagon Admits Number of Guantánamo’s Children is Higher than Originally Disclosed An AP ...
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Guantánamo Bay was bad enough — Bagram is worse
Friday, November 14th, 2008By Daphne Eviatar | Eric Lewis didn't know much about Ruzatullah's case when he decided to take it on two years ago. All he knew was that in October 2004, Ruzatullah, an Afghan man in his thirties, was spending a quiet evening at home with his family in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, when U.S. troops forced their way in and searched the place. The soldiers found no guns or other ...
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Close Gitmo and End Unconstitutional Military Commissions Now
Thursday, November 13th, 2008By Robert Greenwald | We have the chance to help President-elect Obama reclaim democracy and restore the rule of law in our country, which he can do on his first day in office. By shutting down the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison facility, Obama can take a major step toward redeeming our nation's moral leadership in the world. And by ending unconstitutional military commissions and banning torture, he can cut ties ...
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Obama planning US trials for Guantanamo detainees
Monday, November 10th, 2008President-elect Barack Obama's advisers are quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials, a plan that would make good on his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison but could require creation of a controversial new system of justice. During his campaign, Obama described Guantanamo as a "sad chapter in American history" and has said generally that the ...
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With Bush on way out, Guantanamo quieting down
Monday, November 3rd, 2008By David McFadden | Camp Justice, erected six months ago for the first U.S. war-crimes trials in a half-century, already feels like a ghost town. A hundred canvas tents pitched on a weed-choked airfield to house an army of lawyers and journalists stand mostly empty, even as air conditioning blasts through them to keep iguanas and large rodents at bay. Only three reporters showed up this week for the ...
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Next U.S. president must scrap Guantanamo
Friday, October 31st, 2008The head of Amnesty International called on Thursday for the winner of next week's U.S. presidential election to shut the Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba within 100 days of taking office. Irene Khan also urged the U.S. Congress to investigate human rights abuses at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo and by U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan during President George W Bush's administration, and take action against those responsible. "I ...
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Bush Decides to Keep Guantánamo Open
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008By STEVEN LEE MYERS WASHINGTON — Despite his stated desire to close the American prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, President Bush has decided not to do so, and never considered proposals drafted in the State Department and the Pentagon that outlined options for transferring the detainees elsewhere, according to senior administration officials. Mr. Bush’s ...
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New Evidence of Systemic Bias in Guantánamo Trials
Monday, October 13th, 2008By Andy Worthington - andyworthington.co.uk | Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files, continues his analysis of the corrupt command structure of the Military Commissions at Guantánamo, with new information from Maj. David Frakt, one of the Commissions’ military defense lawyers. In the last three weeks, two events have occurred that have dealt what should have been a knockout blow to the Military Commissions at Guantánamo, the system of trials ...
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New Documents Reveal Unlawful Guantanamo Procedures Were Also Applied On American Soil
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008Market Watch | According to newly released military documents, the Navy applied lawless Guantanamo protocols in detention facilities on American soil. The documents, which include regular emails between brig officers and others in the chain of command, uncover new details of the detention and interrogation of two U.S. citizens and a legal resident -- Yaser Hamdi, Jose Padilla and Ali al-Marri -- at naval brigs in Virginia and South ...
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Amnesty accuses Spain of allowing CIA flights to Guantanamo
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008Madrid - The human rights group Amnesty International (AI) on Wednesday accused the Spanish government of not having tried to prevent US flights transporting terrorist suspects to illegal detention centres across Spanish airspace. At least 90 flights linked to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) made stopovers at 15 Spanish airports, mainly on the Canary Islands, between 2002 and 2007, the Spanish section of AI said in a report. About 200 people were ...
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Documents say detainee near insanity
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008AP | A U.S. military officer warned Pentagon officials that an American detainee was being driven nearly insane by months of punishing isolation and sensory deprivation in a U.S. military brig, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press. While the treatment of prisoners at detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and in Afghanistan and Iraq have long been the subject of human rights complaints and court scrutiny, the documents shed ...
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Investigating ‘Africa’s Guantanamo’
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008Salim Awadh is talking to me from inside a cell somewhere in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. By Robert Walker | There are seven other prisoners kept in the same small, dark room, he starts to tell me. Then he suddenly stops speaking. I can hear frantic whispering in the background. Then he says it is safe to carry on. "The conditions are really bad: we don't have enough food, we ...
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Tortured Briton wins US battle over papers
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008A British resident now held at Guantanamo Bay has won an order in the US courts requiring the country's government to hand over material that might help his defence against terrorism charges, it was revealed at the High Court in London Binyam Mohamed, 30, insists that he admitted to plotting a dirty radioactive bomb attack on the United States only after being tortured by having his penis cut with a razor. Recently ...
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