Reprieve | October 27, 2015 A US District Court judge has rejected the Obama administration’s latest request to conceal tapes of detainees at Guantanamo Bay being force-fed. Responding to the government’s request to reverse her order handed down in October last year – that the Guantanamo tapes should be released – Judge Gladys Kessler wrote […]
By Dror Ladin | ACLU | October 23, 2015 I’m writing from Guantánamo Bay, where pre-trial proceedings in the military commissions prosecution of the 9/11 defendants have restarted after an 18-month delay. It has been a faltering start, to say the least: Within ten minutes of the first hearing, the agenda was derailed. Again. One […]
Reprieve | October 21, 2015 On the eve of a hearing in Morocco that will determine whether ex-Guantánamo prisoner Younous Chekkouri is to be set free, the US government has released a letter admitting that the central allegation against him in the US was withdrawn in 2011. Younous Chekkouri was held without charge or trial […]
On 16 July 1964, at the San Francisco Republican Convention—where Ms Clinton began her career of political opportunism—Senator Barry Goldwater accepted his nomination for the presidency by declaring:
I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.1
By Graham Vanbergen | TruePublica | October 6, 2015 The last British prisoner in Guantanamo Bay has claimed that Britain knew flawed evidence, used to justify the Iraq War, had been obtained under torture – and said his lengthy detention was a result of fears that he would go on the record if released. Shaker […]
Reprieve | October 7, 2015 This week, two clients of international human rights NGO Reprieve chose not to meet their attorneys at Guantánamo due to reinstated genital searches, raising fears that the searches are being used in a deliberate attempt to stop detainees from meeting with their lawyers. Staff at Guantánamo told Reprieve attorney Cori […]
Reprieve | September 25, 2015 Lawyers at human rights NGO Reprieve yesterday filed an emergency motion demanding the US government release information which could exonerate a former Guantanamo detainee facing the possibility of charges in Morocco. Younous Chekkouri, 47, was transferred to his native Morocco last week. He has been detained ever since and the […]
Reprieve | September 23, 2015 Younous Chekkouri, who was released from Guantanamo last week, is facing the possibility of charges in Morocco that his lawyer has described as ‘utterly baseless’. The prosecution in Morocco today announced that Younous – who has been held in detention since his release last week – is facing the possibility […]
Reprieve | September 21, 2015 A Guantanamo prisoner released to his native Morocco has spoken of the terror he felt at the way he was treated by US authorities on his flight home. Younous Chekkouri — released from Guantanamo last week having been held in the US prison for more than a decade without charge […]
Shaker Aamer © Wikipedia RT | August 20, 2015 American authorities are “shamefully” refusing to release Shaker Aamer, the last British resident detained at Guantanamo Bay, despite calls from Prime Minister David Cameron for the prisoner to be freed, a lawyer has claimed. Aamer’s legal counsel Ramzi Kassem called on the British government to pressure […]
