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Q&A: Guantanamo ‘Has No Right to Exist’
For more than 100 days, detainees at American detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have been on hunger strike, drawing international attention back to the prison that U.S. President Barack...
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Obama Narrows Scope of Terror War
President Barack Obama prepares to take the stage as he is introduced at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C., May 23, 2013. Credit: Official White House Photo by Pete...
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Coming Out in Droves Against Drones
Members of the PTI party protest the U.S. operation in Abbottabad that killed Osama Bin Laden. Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSThough the constant hum of unmanned aerial vehicles flying overhead makes a...
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Colombia, the United States, and Montesquieu
The United States and Colombia are the leaders in mental anxiety in the Americas. Both have good reasons: Colombia has witnessed the longest lasting violence in any contemporary country: from 1949,...
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Judge Urges Obama to Halt “Degrading” Guantanamo Force-Feeding
Guantanamo captives in January 2002. Credit: US Navy/public domainA federal judge here has taken the unusual step of formally calling on President Barack Obama to halt the forcible feeding of dozens of...
View ArticleReport Gives Graphic Details of Guantanamo Force-Feeding
“Bleeding”, “vomiting”, “a quarter or even a third” of bodyweight lost, “torture”. These are characteristic descriptions from testimony by hunger strikers at the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay of...
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Guantanamo Transfers Hint at Momentum Towards Closure
By Ramy SrourWASHINGTON, Dec 16 2013 (IPS) The U.S. government announced Monday it has repatriated two Saudi detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay prison, less than two weeks after two Algerian...
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Senate Committee, CIA in Brawl over Torture Inquiry
Sen. Feinstein accused the CIA of trying to intimidate Committee staffers by asking the Justice Department to carry out a criminal investigation into how the staffers obtained an internal CIA report on...
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U.S. Terror Suspects Face “Terrifying” Justice System
Participants at an April 7 candlelight vigil for Shifa Sadequee, a Bangladeshi-American serving a 17-year sentence in Terra Haute, Indiana, stand in the rain outside the New York Metropolitan...
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Ostracised and Isolated: Muslim Prisoners in the U.S.
Tarek Mehanna (right) poses for a photograph with his mother and brother at his PhD ceremony. Photo courtesy the Mehanne family.By Kanya D'AlmeidaNEW YORK, Apr 18 2014 (IPS) Such stigma now surrounds...
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Uruguay’s Decision Could Come Too Late for Gitmo Detainees
Detainees in orange jumpsuits sit in a holding area under the watchful eyes of Military Police at Camp X-Ray at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, during in-processing to the temporary detention facility...
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Release of Senate Torture Report Insufficient, Say Rights Groups
Seven of 39 detainees who were subject to the most aggressive interrogation techniques provided no intelligence at all, while information obtained from the others preceded the harsh treatment,...
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U.S. Faulted for Undermining Torture Convention
Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein, recently appointed UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, notes that few countries will admit their state apparatus has been practising torture, even when the scars are all too...
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Guantánamo Paradoxes Tested in Uruguay
The six freed Guantánamo detainees line up to hold a Uruguayan baby. In this picture, Tunisian Abdul Bin Mohammed Abis Ourgy holds up the infant while Syrian Ali Hussein Muhammed Shaaban watches....
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