Six detainees from the Guantánamo Bay military prison, including three Uighurs from China’s Xinjiang province, are seeking refugee status in Canada with the support of Canadian sponsors.
The US has threatened to withhold intelligence cooperation with the UK if evidence is made public of the torture of a British resident at Guantánamo Bay, Britain’s High Court asserts in a ruling.
Manfred Nowak, UN special rapporteur on torture, called on the Obama administration to prosecute George Bush and Donald Rumsfeld for torture and ill-treatment of detainees at Guantánamo Bay.
Pope Benedict Jan. 24 rehabilitated a breakaway “traditionalist” bishop who denies the Holocaust—ignoring warnings from Jewish leaders that it would seriously harm relations with the Catholic church and foment anti-Semitism. The Vatican said the pope issued a decree lifting the… Read moreVatican “rehabilitates” Holocaust denier “traditionalist” bishop
Fox News is having a field day with reports that a Saudi man who was released from Guantánamo Bay after a six-year stint is now the number-two man in al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen.
Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights warns that President Obama's executive order officially ending "coercive interrogation methods" actually leaves some "wiggle room" for torture.
President Barack Obama has called for a halt to the Guantánamo tribunals, directing prosecutors to seek a 120-day postponement for his administration “to review the military commission process.”
The Defense Department announced the transfer of six detainees from Guantánamo Bay to Iraq, Algeria and Afghanistan. Barack Obama last week pledged to issue an executive order closing the prison camp.
A federal judge ordered the release of Gitmo detainee Mohammed el Gharani, finding the government had failed to prove he is an “enemy combatant.” Meanwhile, Susan Crawford, convening authority of Military Commissions at Guantánamo, admitted that torture has been used at the facility.
From Witness Against Torture, Jan. 8: WASHINGTON – On Sunday, January 11 – the seven-year anniversary of the opening of the prison at Guantanamo – more than 200 human rights advocates will join 60 people who are beginning a nine-day… Read moreActivists fast to demand Obama close Gitmo
President-elect Barack Obama‘s tilt to the right became obvious immediately after his historic victory, with the appointment of Rahm Israel Emanuel, a pro-Israel hardliner, as chief of staff. Our December Exit Poll was: “Barack Obama: ruling class pawn or avatar… Read moreObama’s rightward tilt: our readers write
Media accounts are generally not recalling the similar incidents earlier this year. Why is nobody seeing patterns here? From Network World, Dec. 22: Undersea robot searches for severed cables A robot submarine was scouring the seabed 200 meters under the… Read moreMediterranean Internet cables spliced —again
