Guantanamo

Source: news.ninemsn.com.au --- 1 day ago
A controversial Tasmanian prison unit likened to Guantanamo Bay is being investigated for breaches of international human rights standards. ...

Source: news.telegraph.co.uk --- 1 day ago
Joe Biden has indicated that a new Democratic administration may consider pursuing criminal charges against the Bush administration. ...

Source: www.chron.com --- 3 days ago
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The U.S. military has released three more prisoners from its prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Defense Department said Tuesday it transferred one prisoner to Pakistan and two to Afghanistan. It did not disclose their names or any details about the men. Their release brings the total still held at Guantanamo to about 255. ...

Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 1 day ago
News that three more prisoners have been released from Guantánamo is cause for celebration, as all three men should never have been held in the first place. In a report to follow, I'll look at the stories of the two Afghans released -- one a simple farmer, the other a juvenile at the time he was seized -- but for now I'm going to focus on the extraordinary story of the prisoner released to Pakistan, Mohammed Saad Iqbal Madni, whose grotesque mistreatment involves "extraordinary rendition" and torture spanning several continents. A Pakistani-Egyptian national and the son of an Islamic scholar, Madni was 24 years old when he arrested in Jakarta by the Indonesian authorities on January 9, 2002, after a request from the CIA. He was then rendered to Egypt, apparently at the urging of the Egyptian authorities, working in cooperation with the CIA. In Egypt, he was tortured for three months, and was flown back to Afghanistan on April 12, 2002 with Mamdouh Habib, an Australian prisoner, seized in Pakistan, who was released in January 2005, and who has spoken at length about his torture in Egypt. Eleven months later, Madni was transferred to Guantánamo. Although Madni did not speak about his treatment during any of his military reviews at Guantánamo, several prisoners confirmed that he was tortured by the Egyptians. Rustam Akhmyarov, a Russian prisoner released in 2004, said that Madni told him of his time "in an underground cell in Egypt, w ...

Source: www.alternet.org --- 4 days ago
More than two years after the government began investigating the suicides of three Guantanamo prisoners, disturbing questions remain. ...

Source: www.antiwar.com --- 5 days ago
Excerpt: In the lawless world of Guantanamo -- and the United States' even murkier network of secret prisons run by or on behalf of the CIA -- it has taken six years and four months for British resident Binyam Mohamed to secure anything resembling justice. ...

Source: www.antiwar.com --- 1 day ago
Excerpt: News that three more prisoners have been released from Guantanamo is cause for celebration, as all three men should never have been held in the first place. In a report to follow, I'll look at the stories of the two Afghans released -- one a simple farmer, the other a juvenile at the time he was seized -- but for now I'm going to focus on the extraordinary story of the prisoner released to Pakistan, Mohammed Saad Iqbal Madni, whose grotesque mistreatment involves "extraordinary rendition" and torture spanning several continents. ...

Source: www.moreover.com --- 5 days ago
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Source: blog.cleveland.com --- 1 day ago
For 15 years, Vicki Werneke has been trying to free death-row inmates, first in Oklahoma and now in Ohio. Recently she took on a new kind of client -- accused enemy combatant. Werneke, a federal public defender, is one of... ...

Source: www.dvdtimes.co.uk --- 4 days ago
News: Entertainment in Video have announced the UK Region 2 DVD release of Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay on 22nd September 2008 priced at £19.99 RRP. John Cho and Kal Penn return as Harold and Kumar, two stoners who can't seem to get a break.... ...

Source: www.dvdtimes.co.uk --- 4 days ago
Blu-Ray News: Entertainment in Video have announced the UK Region B Blu-ray Disc release of Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay on 22nd September 2008 priced at £24.99 RRP. John Cho and Kal Penn return as Harold and Kumar, two stoners who can't seem to get... ...

Source: www.9wsyr.com --- 3 days ago
The Defense Department said Tuesday it transferred one prisoner to Pakistan and two to Afghanistan. ...

Source: www.mcclatchydc.com --- 3 days ago
The Pentagon sent three more war-on-terror captives home from Guantanamo this weekend -- two to Afghanistan and one to Pakistan, the Defense Department said Tuesday. ...

Source: www.mcclatchydc.com --- 1 day ago
A military judge in the case of a Canadian captive at Guantanamo on Thursday again banned a general at the Pentagon from acting as a legal adviser because of a perception that he favors the prosecution. ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 5 days ago
The Government was given a further week by the High Court to consider its position over its refusal to disclose secret documents in the case of a British resident held in Guantanamo Bay. ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 5 days ago
Eds: APNewsNow. ADDS name of other released prisoner. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico The U.S. military has transferred two prisoners from Guantanamo Bay to the custody of Algeria. ...

Source: www.topix.com --- 5 days ago
DENVER, Aug. 24 AIUSA-Gitmo-in-Denver Human Rights Organization Will Tour Cell Across the Nation Urging the Bush Administration to Close Detention Facility at Guantanamo Bay , Cuba DENVER , ... ...

Source: www.reviewsandmore.net --- 2 days ago
Although stoner movies aren’t exactly my thing, I have to admit that I somewhat enjoyed the 2004 comedy Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. I actually just saw that film a few months ago, and though I didn’t think it was nearly as good as its reputation and cult following led me to [...] ...