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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Spanish judge keeps Guantanamo probe alive
A Spanish judge considering possible criminal action against six former Bush administration officials for torture at the...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Stop Guantanamo terror trials, says Obama
Newly-installed President Barack Obama wasted no time in getting down to business today after his administration requested...
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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...
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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...
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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:...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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”,...
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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...




