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Pentagon bans journalists from Guantanamo trial
By Scott Horton The Gates Pentagon has decided to ban four journalists from covering the Guantánamo proceedings. The Washington Post’s Jeff Stein reports: The Pentagon said they were expelling the reporters because they had
Read More »Guantánamo Bay: the inside story
Six months ago this week President Obama, on his second day in office, promised to close the Guantánamo detention camp within a year, and to undo the secretive and coercive detention and interrogation policies
Read More »Bush Tries To Defend Guantanamo
RINF NEWS Speaking for over an hour at a business meeting in Pennsylvania, Former President George W. Bush attacked plans to close the Guantanamo Bay prison. “The way I decided to address the problem
Read More »The True Story Behind Pyschology’s Role in Torture?
A seventeen-year-old boy is locked in an interrogation cell in Guantanamo. He breaks down crying and says he wants his family. The interrogator senses the boy is psychologically vulnerable and consults with a psychologist.
Read More »Empty Evidence: The Stories Of The Saudis Released From Guantanamo
At the end of a hectic week at Guantánamo, which saw the Obama administration overcome its previous inability to release prisoners (just two were released from January to May), it was announced that, following
Read More »Guantánamo’s Uighurs In Bermuda: Interviews And New Photos
As representatives of the world’s media descended on Bermuda to meet the four Uighurs (Muslims from China’s oppressed Xinjiang province) who had just arrived in the capital, Hamilton, after being freed from Guantánamo and
Read More »The Long Ordeal of Guantánamo’s Youngest Prisoner
The long ordeal of Mohammed El-Gharani, Guantánamo’s youngest prisoner, has finally come to an end. Reprieve, the legal action charity that represents him, reported yesterday that he has been sent back to Chad. A
Read More »Gitmo suicide had been prisoners’ representative
Almost five months before he was found dead at Guantanamo Bay, a detainee volunteered to represent prisoners in talks with the military and left his jailhouse for a meeting with the detention camp’s most
Read More »Spanish judge keeps Guantanamo probe alive
A Spanish judge considering possible criminal action against six former Bush administration officials for torture at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay defied pressure to drop the case Friday. But Judge Baltasar Garzon, internationally
Read More »Countries Urged to Follow Irish Lead on Guantanamo
OneWorld US | European countries should emulate Ireland’s offer to accept Guantanamo detainees who will be released by the United States but cannot return to their home countries, says an international human rights monitor. “This
Read More »UN expert wants Gitmo probe before camp closes
By FRANK JORDANS | GENEVA – A U.N. human rights expert applauded the Obama administration Tuesday for pledging to turn a page in U.S. history by closing the Guantanamo Bay prison, but said the
Read More »Guantánamo: The Definitive Prisoner List
By Andy Worthington | I’ve just published the first definitive list of the 779 prisoners held in the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, which is available in four parts. Click on the following
Read More »EU tells U.S.A: Don’t create new Guantanamo
By Ingrid Melander The United States must not allow its Bagram military base in Afghanistan to become a new Guantanamo Bay if it wants European Union help to close the prison on Cuba,
Read More »More accuse Britain in torture of Guantanamo detainee
By Julie Sell LONDON — Despite years of denials, new questions are being raised about Britain’s possible involvement in the torture of a detainee now on a prolonged hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay
Read More »Guantanamo Bay comes to the UK
By JAMES EAGLE REFUGEE campaigners have blown the lid off a detention scandal which has been dubbed “Britain’s Guantanamo.” Hundreds of immigrants are being locked up indefinitely at the whim of a brutal and
Read More »Stop Guantanamo terror trials, says Obama
Newly-installed President Barack Obama wasted no time in getting down to business today after his administration requested a halt to controversial military trials at Guantanamo Bay. Hours after his historic inauguration as the first
Read More »Detainee captured at 14 to be freed
A US judge has ordered the military to release a Guantanamo Bay detainee who was arrested in Pakistan when he was 14. Mohamed el-Gharani was one of the first people to be sent to
Read More »Fate of Guantánamo Detainees Still Murky
By William Fisher | Human rights groups are hailing reports that President-elect Barack Obama plans to issue an executive order on his first full day in office directing the closing of the Guantánamo Bay
Read More »The Dying Days of the Guantánamo Trials
With less than two weeks until the Bush administration leaves office, Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison, reports on developments — or the
Read More »Guantanamo intake unacceptable, says Malcolm Turnbull
KEVIN Rudd should immediately reverse a decision to allow former Guantanamo Bay inmates to resettle in Australia, the Opposition said today. Acting Prime Minister Julia Gillard has confirmed that Australia, along with a number of
Read More »Cheney Admits He ‘Signed Off’ on Waterboarding of Three Guantanamo Prisoners
Author’s note: Cheney’s admission during an interview with the Washington Times this week about his role in approving the waterboarding of three Guantanamo detainees and the so-called “enhanced interrogation” of 33 prisoners was, disturbingly,
Read More »Amnesty: Closing Guantanamo Isn’t Enough
Amnesty International, in a just-released proposal, wants to go further than just closing the facility. By Spencer Ackerman The international human-rights organization put out a four-stage plan for closing the door on the Era
Read More »Gov’t pulls witness in Gitmo case against Canadian
Military prosecutors have withdrawn a government witness in an upcoming Guantanamo war-crimes trial to conceal evidence of “abuse and mistreatment” of the defendant, his Pentagon-appointed lawyer alleged Sunday. The witness, a U.S. agent whose
Read More »VIDEO: Gitmo Military Prosecutor Breaks His Silence
The tribunals used for putting suspects on trial at Guantanamo Bay are a “stain on America’s military”, a former military prosecutor has told the BBC in his first interview since resigning. Former Lt. Col.
Read More »Number of juveniles held at Guantanamo almost twice official Pentagon figure
By 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
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