News Source: Truthout
| about 1 month ago
Andy Worthington, t r u t h o u t Report A declassified ruling by a federal court judge reveals that Fouad al-Rabiah, an innocent Kuwaiti prisoner who was ordered released from Guantanamo last week, was brutally tortured into making false
News Source: Press TV
| about 1 month ago
The veteran activists rushed out the announcement of the Association for Civil and Political Rights as the government was trying to stifle the move by questioning potential signatories, AFP reported Monday. "They have started interrogating people who
News Source: Times of Oman
| about 1 month ago
A group of veteran Saudi activists launched a new political and human rights association on Monday while saying the government is already trying to stifle the move. Eleven activists sent a declaration about the creation of the Association for Civil
News Source: The New York Times
| about 1 month ago
Congress is moving to require videotaping of interrogations of detainees held by the military, a step proponents say will prevent abuse and create a valuable intelligence record. The provision, which the House passed on Thursday as part of the 2010
News Source: Truthout
| about 1 month ago
Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t Report On Monday, a federal court ordered the government to turn over a videotape of the brutal interrogation of a Guantanamo detainee to the prisoner's lawyers. (Photo Illustration: Jared Rodriguez / t r u t h o u t,
News Source: Washington Post
| about 1 month ago
A federal judge on Monday disclosed the existence of videotapes that may reveal potentially abusive interrogations of a Guantanamo Bay detainee, and ordered the government to provide copies of the tapes to the man's lawyers. Lawyers for the detainee,
News Source: Mother Jones
| 4 months ago
The prison's medical officers routinely rejected medics' requests to hospitalize sick and wounded detainees; the general sentiment, Duffy says, was "screw these guys." Once, he tried to revive an elderly prisoner whose heart had stopped. The
News Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| 6 months ago
If hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue, then the flip-flops on previously denounced anti-terror measures are the homage that Barack Obama pays to George Bush. Within 125 days, Mr. Obama has adopted with only minor modifications huge