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Released Guantanamo Detainee: What Did Tony Blair Know? »
Posted by: berkeley 9 months, 1 week ago in News
Binyam Mohamed has been released from Guantanamo and arrived back in London on Monday. The case of the Ethiopian man's ordeal may still unveil ...
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The differing views of the "rule of law" in Spain and the U.S »
Posted by: tehranchik 7 months, 2 weeks ago in News
Scott Horton reports this morning that, in Spain, "prosecutors have decided to press forward with a criminal investigation targeting former U.S. Attorney General Alberto ...
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Meet the new gulag, same as the old gulag »
Posted by: tehranchik 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
President Obama ratified the following charade to make “enemy combatant” determinations at Bagram, which can be the equivalent of life sentences. The initial judgment is ...
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The Sounds of Silence - Cantos Gregorianos Modernos »
Posted by: Spadecaller 1 year ago in Arts & Entertainment
Here's an updated interpretation of "The Sounds of Silence," the song which catapulted the 1960s folk music duo Simon and Garfunkel into the limelight ...
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Guantanamo Story: A Chinese Uighur, Making Pizza in Albania »
Posted by: jovial 7 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
A former Guantanamo inmate has built a new life for himself, working in an Italian snack bar on Albanian soil, along with four of his ...
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Obama to Close Foreign Prisons and Guantánamo »
Posted by: Radiofreeeuropa 10 months, 1 week ago in News
WASHINGTON ; President Obama is expected to sign executive orders Thursday directing the Central Intelligence Agency to shut what remains of its network of secret prisons ...
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Obama's backsliding on torture »
Posted by: berkeley 8 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
President Obama inherited a human rights debacle of epic proportions. One of his earliest acts, during his very first hours in office, was to signal ...
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The terrorists at Club Gitmo don't want to leave »
Posted by: alanocu 4 weeks ago in Political News
Obvious. What else more could they want? They have personal chefs, TVs, remote controls, beach volleyball, a library overlooking the ocean, scenic views, free laundry ...
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US threats mean evidence of British residents Guantanamo torture must stay secret, judges rule »
Posted by: ameliog 9 months, 4 weeks ago in News
Evidence of how a British resident held in the Guantánamo Bay detention camp was tortured, and what MI5 knew about it, must remain secret ...
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Another Suicide at Guantanamo »
Posted by: tehranchik 5 months, 4 weeks ago in Political News
The detainee, 31, was identified as Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh al Hanashi, who has been imprisoned since 2002 at the naval base in Guantánamo ...
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Searching for Guantanamo II - »
Posted by: Eagle_Eye 10 months, 1 week ago in News
One day after President Obama ordered that the military detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, be shuttered, lawmakers in Washington wrestled with the implications ...
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O’Reilly defends torture:‘Look, if it were illegal, Bush and Cheney would have been arrested.’ »
Posted by: tehranchik 5 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly has always been one of the most outspoken defenders of torture, declaring there’s “certainly no proof” that “mistreatment ...
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What Obama Couldn't Say About Af-Pak »
Posted by: tehranchik 8 months ago in Political News
What about detainees? Currently we're holding some 600 of them at Afghanistan's Bagram air base--aka "Afghanistan's Guantanamo"-- with plans for a major ...
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You Be The Judge »
Posted by: tehranchik 9 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
When is a threat not a threat? Was there any threat at all? A recent British High Court ruling in the case of Binyam Mohamed ...
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US censors silenced me over the Gitmo gulag -- Clive Stafford Smith: »
Posted by: berkeley 7 months, 3 weeks ago in Political News
I recently became the first British lawyer admitted to "Gitmo". The Gitmo gulag may be an American naval base, but the evidence that Britain has ...
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