“Close Guantánamo” Campaign and Website Launches: Retired Military Personnel, Lawyers Call for the Closure of Guantánamo After 10 Years Andy Worthington January 11, 2012 Yesterday, at “Guantánamo Forever?” an event at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C., attorney Tom Wilner and journalist Andy Worthington launched “Close Guantánamo,” a new campaign and website designed to [...]
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Man Pepper Sprayed to Death by Police. While Tied to Chair. December 26, 2011 Print Version By John C Dvorak TAMPA – No doubt you’ve heard the adage: a picture is worth a thousand words. A picture of 62-year-old Nick Christie could be worth thousands of dollars when a jury sees it. The photo shows [...]
Gitmo Costs $800K/Year Per Detainee November 11th, 2011 Via: Mother Jones: The Miami Herald’s Carol Rosenberg, returning to Gitmo for the arraignment of alleged USS Cole bomber Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, reports how much the island prison is costing American taxpayers these days. The Pentagon detention center that started out in January 2002 as a collection [...]
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Rights Groups Call for the Arrest of George W. Bush for Torture as He Arrives in Canada Andy Worthington October 20, 2011 As former US President George W. Bush arrives in Canada today to address a regional economic summit, where attendees will pay $599 a head to hear him and former President Bill Clinton as [...]
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Donald Rumsfeld Stripped Of Immunity In Torture Case September 21, 2011 Print Version Source: Neon Tommy – Alternet Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was stripped of immunity in a case involving the torture of two United States citizens. Two FBI informants, Donald Vance and Nathan Ertel, were detained and tortured by United States [...]
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New Evidence Links Cisco to Jailing and Torture of Chinese September 6th, 2011 Via: Sydney Morning Herald: A human rights group suing Cisco for aiding the tracking and torture of people in China claims it has new evidence proving the tech giant tailored its technology to specifically enable these abuses. If accepted by the court, [...]
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RussiaToday October 2, 2010 The appointment of an infamous Israeli interrogator to a high-ranking police post has sent shockwaves among human rights groups. Known among inmates as Captain George, he’s accused of numerous cases of torture and abuse of Arabs. Now that he’s in charge of Arab affairs, many Palestinians fear for their lives. RT’s [...]
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Study: CIA doctors ‘gave green light to torture’ By Muriel Kane August 6, 2010 A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association reveals that physicians with the CIA’s Office of Medical Services (OMS) played an even greater role in facilitating the torture of detainees than was previously recognized. As described in the [...]
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Change: Closing Guantánamo Fades as a Priority June 26th, 2010 Via: New York Times: Stymied by political opposition and focused on competing priorities, the Obama administration has sidelined efforts to close the Guantánamo prison, making it unlikely that President Obama will fulfill his promise to close it before his term ends in 2013. When the [...]
The Bigger Picture Behind Allegation that the Bush Administration Allowed Illegal Medical Experiments on Prisoners The allegation by doctors with expertise in prison experimentation and torture that the Bush administration conducted “illegal and unethical human experimentation and research” on detainees while in CIA custody after 9/11 is certainly newsworthy. See this, this and this. Specifically, [...]
42 Arrested at U.S. Capitol in Day of Action to Denounce Obama’s Broken Promises on Guantanamo WITNESS AGAINST TORTURE January 21, 2010 WITNESS AGAINST TORTURE Press Release: For Immediate Release January 21, 2010 Contact: Frida Berrigan, 347-683-4928, frida.berrigan@gmail.com Matt Daloisio, 201-264-4424, daloisio@earthlink.net 42 Arrested at U.S. Capitol in Day of Action to Denounce Obama’s Broken [...]
“Hell on Earth”: Released Somali Speaks about Guantánamo Andy Worthington December 23, 2009 AFP secured an interview on Monday with Mohamed Saleban Bare (known to the Pentagon as Mohammed Sulaymon Barre), the Somali refugee, released from Guantánamo at the weekend with eleven other men (including another Somali, Ismail Mahmoud Muhammad), who ran a money transfer [...]
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Source: Guardian Reports that CIA agents may be helping their Palestinian security counterparts to torture prisoners (Special report, 18 December) are bad enough. What is more of a concern to me, though, is that Palestinians, for so long holding the moral ground in the struggle for justice in the Holy Land, could actually torture their [...]
The CIA built one of its secret European prisons inside an exclusive riding academy outside Vilnius, Lithuania, a current Lithuanian government official and a former U.S. intelligence official told ABC News this week. Share Outside Lithuania the CIA used a former barn to interrogate al Qaeda members. Where affluent Lithuanians once rode show horses and [...]
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Bush-Obama meld… National Briefing Washington, D.C.: Secrecy on terrorist watch list sought September 6, 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. Secrecy on terror watch list sought The Obama administration wants to maintain the secrecy of terrorist watch list information it routinely shares with federal, state and local agencies, a move that rights groups say would make it difficult [...]
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