Detainees

Source: news.bbc.co.uk --- 6 days ago
Mahmoud Abbas orders the release of Hamas members rounded up in the West Bank by members of his Fatah faction. ...

Source: abcnews.go.com --- 5 days ago
US military: More than 10,000 Detainees freed in Iraq this year, 21,000 still in detention ...

Source: topics.cnn.com --- 4 days ago
The U.S. military said Saturday it has released more than 10,000 Detainees in Iraq so far this yearas it continues to try phase out its running of Iraqi prison ...

Source: www.washingtonpost.com --- 2 days ago
The Bush administration informed all foreign intelligence and law enforcement teams visiting their citizens held at Guantanamo Bay that video and sound from their interrogation sessions would be recorded, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. The policy suggests that the United... ...

Source: www.foxnews.com --- 1 day ago
Turns out that terror suspects who faced questioning by delegations from their own countries were videotaped for use by defense attorneys, The Washington Post reports. ...

Source: www.latimes.com --- 4 days ago
Max-security Camp 6 will be modified to let compliant Detainees interact by eating and exercising together. In hopes of encouraging better behavior among terrorism suspects in a maximum-security facility here, parts of it will be gradually transformed to let some of the men eat, visit and exercise together. ...

Source: www.nydailynews.com --- 4 days ago
The U.S. military said Saturday it has released more than 10,000 Detainees in Iraq so far this year ? more than in all of 2007 ? as it continues to try to phase out its running of Iraqi prisons. ...

Source: www.abc.net.au --- 5 days ago
The US military said it has freed more than 10,000 people from its two detention centres in Iraq so far this year - more than the 8,900 released during the whole of 2007. ...

Source: www.military.com --- 5 days ago
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Source: www.hrw.org --- 2 days ago
Improve Treatment of HIV-positive Immigrants in Detention Inferior medical care for HIV-positive immigrant Detainees threatens their health, and ultimately their lives, Human Rights Watch said today at the 2008 International AIDS Conference in Mexico City. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – the agency charged with providing health care services to Detainees – fails to ensure timely HIV prevention and treatment services, putting many at risk of infection, resistance to treatment, and even death. ...

Source: www.oxfordmail.net --- 2 days ago
Five of the 26 Detainees who escaped from the Campsfield House immigration detention centre, near Kidlington, a year ago are still on the run. ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 4 days ago
A military statement said there are currently around 21,000 Detainees in the two centers - Camp Cropper near Baghdad's airport and Camp Bucca near the southern oil city of Basra. ...

Source: www.myantiwar.org --- 2 days ago
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Source: www.citizen.co.za --- 3 days ago
JOHANNESBURG - Six awaiting trial Detainees escaped from Siyabuswa police station holding cells, Mpumalanga police said on Monday. ...

Source: www.scotusblog.com --- 2 days ago
In a new plea in D.C. Circuit Court, the Justice Department on Monday asked a three-judge panel to make clear that it has not authorized the move to the U.S. mainland of any detainee now held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In doing so, the Department said it would no longer attempt to hold a Chinese Muslim prisoner as if he were an “enemy combatant,” but will try instead to get some other country to accept him. The detainee, Huzaifa Parhat, was the first Guantanamo captive to have his detention challenge decided by the Circuit Court. The three-judge panel ruled on June 20 that the Pentagon cannot hold an individual as a designated enemy on the basis of “mere assertions” of terrorist links. For Parhat, the panel said, one remedy now available was his release from detention. Following up on that ruling, Parhat’s lawyers on July 23 became the first Guantanamo prisoner to ask a U.S. court to order his release into the U.S., to live at least temporarily with a community of other members of a Chinese Muslim minority that had been persecuted in their home country. The lawyers contended that the Circuit Court was well aware that release of Parhat could only mean a return to China — which would be ruled out because of the threat he faced if sent there — or a move to the U.S. mainland. The Justice Department is determined to resist the move to the U.S. of any individual now at Guantanamo, and so it asked the Circuit Court to clarify its ruling of ...

Source: imeu.net --- 4 days ago
Freed Palestinian prisoner Seema A'nbas revealed Friday that her fellow prisoner 36-year-old Amal Jum'aa is suffering from uterine cancer. A'nbas heard the news about Jum'aa after the latter's sister returned from a visit to the women's prison. She said that the cancer was discovered two days ago after doctors conducted her regular checkup in the prison. Jum'aa is 36-years-old and a resident of Askar refugee camp near the West Bank city of Nablus and is serving an 11 year sentence. ...

Source: www.911familiesforamerica.org --- 3 days ago
In this morning’s Washington Times: Three U.S. law firms and a public relations company have received millions of dollars from a Middle Eastern organization partly financed by the Kuwaiti government to work for families of Kuwaiti men detained at the U.S. Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, public records show. The legal work, funded by the Kuwait-based International [...] ...