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Control order detainee Mahmoud Abu Rideh to be allowed to leave the UK

3.7.09

Earlier today, I published two articles about the suffering of control order detainee Mahmoud Abu Rideh and his family — “Seven years of madness: the harrowing tale of Mahmoud Abu Rideh and Britain’s anti-terror laws,” and “Would you be able to cope?: Letters by the children of control order detainee Mahmoud Abu Rideh” — as [...]

“Would you be able to cope?”: Letters by the children of control order detainee Mahmoud Abu Rideh

3.7.09

In an article earlier today, “Seven years of madness: the harrowing tale of Mahmoud Abu Rideh and Britain’s anti-terror laws,” I told the story of Mahmoud Abu Rideh, a Palestinian-born British resident with a British wife and six British children, who had a hearing at the High Court in London today to consider his request [...]

Seven years of madness: the harrowing tale of Mahmoud Abu Rideh and Britain’s anti-terror laws

3.7.09

Today, Mahmoud Abu Rideh, a Palestinian-born British resident with a British wife and six British children, has a hearing at the High Court in London to consider his request for internationally valid travel documents which would allow him to leave the country. On the basis of secret evidence, which has not been disclosed to him, [...]

African Embassy Bombing Suspect To Face Trial In September 2010

3.7.09

OK, so nearly 12 years after he was indicted for his alleged part in the African embassy bombings in August 1998, over six years since he was seized after a gunfight in Gujrat, Pakistan in July 2004, and four years after his transfer to Guantánamo — after two years in secret CIA prisons, where, he [...]

Release Of The “Holy Grail” Of Torture Reports Delayed Again

1.7.09

Today was supposed to be the day that the Justice Department — after two delays — released an unclassified version of the CIA Inspector General’s 2004 Report into the interrogations of “high-value detainees” in the “War on Terror,” which Democrat Congressional staffers described as the “holy grail,” according to Greg Sargent of the Plum Line, [...]

When Torture Kills: Ten Murders In US Prisons In Afghanistan

1.7.09

There’s been a lot of discussion in the last few days about the long-awaited (and twice-delayed) release of the 2004 CIA Inspector General’s Report, which, as Glenn Greenwald explained on Tuesday, “aggressively question[s] both the efficacy and legality” of the Bush administration’s interrogation tactics in the “War on Terror.” As Greenwald also explained,
In anticipation of the [...]

Guantánamo: Charge Or Release Prisoners, Say No To Indefinite Detention

30.6.09

So what’s happening now? According to a joint Washington Post / ProPublica article on Friday, “The Obama administration, fearing a battle with Congress that could stall plans to close Guantánamo, has drafted an executive order that would reassert presidential authority to incarcerate terrorism suspects indefinitely,” according to “three senior government officials.”
The administration moved swiftly to [...]

UK protestors mark 13th anniversary of Libyan prison massacre

30.6.09

Befriending dictators, as the UK and US have been doing with Libya’s Colonel Gaddafi since British Prime Minister Tony Blair made an official visit to Libya in March 2004, brings with it its own set of unprincipled compromises. In Libya’s case, the resultant hypocrisy has been starkly delineated. Although reviled as a sponsor of international [...]

Mohammed El-Gharani, Guantánamo’s youngest prisoner, speaks to al-Jazeera

27.6.09

Speaking for the first time since his release from Guantánamo after seven years’ imprisonment without charge or trial, following a successful habeas corpus appeal in January, Mohammed El-Gharani, now a free man in Chad, told Mohamed Vall of al-Jazeera, in an exclusive interview, how he felt about being imprisoned from the age of 14 to [...]

Andy Worthington: Four radio interviews on Guantánamo and torture

27.6.09

This was a busy week for interviews. On Tuesday, after trekking down to Westminster to record an interview for Democracy Now! I returned to the leafy retreat of my home in south London to talk to Peter B. Collins for a show that doesn’t appear to be online, and then stayed up horribly late — [...]

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