Comments on: UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’ Complicity, and Obama’s Record

By: Syrien / USA: Wenn aus dem alten Folter-Freund der neue Menschenrechts-Feind wird « Ticker

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:01:47 +0000

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By: WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released from 2002 to 2004 (All Ten Parts) – Andy Worthington « freedetainees.org

Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:37:49 +0000

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By: ARTICLE: “How the Abu Salim Prison Massacre in 1996 Inspired the Revolution in Libya” ‹ Libyan Council of North America

Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:46:38 +0000

[...] In Egypt, a similar trigger was the cold-blooded murder, in a street in Alexandria last June, of Khaled Said, a 28-year old businessman from Alexandria, who was beaten to death by the police after they dragged him onto the street from an internet café. Said’s murder led to the creation of an Internet campaign — for justice, essentially — in his name (We Are All Khaled Said), and, as I explained in my article last month, I considered that: [A]lthough brutality was widespread in Tunisia too, it is appropriate that the Egyptian people are holding the memory of a victim of the state’s appalling violence as an inspiration, because Mubarak’s brutality — exercised in Egypt’s torture prisons, as well as in casual homicides like that of Khaled Said — is not only an emblem of Egypt over the last 30 years, but also reflects on wider issues that have, indirectly, dominated my life for the last five years since I beganresearching and writing about Guantánamo and the Bush administration’s “War on Terror”: the hypocrisy of the West (and, in particular, the United States), which funds Mubarak’s repressive regime (to the tune of $1.3 billion a year), and which made Egypt central to the “War on Terror,” its vile torture prisons the first port of call for victims of the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program. [...]

By: WikiLeaks And The 22 Children Of Guantanamo

WikiLeaks And The 22 Children Of Guantanamo — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 06:16:38 +0000

[...] to torture and abuse, as described by many of these prisoners, “extraordinary rendition” to a torture prison in Jordan in the case of one of the juveniles, Hassan bin Attash, and, in the case of Omar Khadr, a war [...]

By: Study Says Doctors At Guantánamo Neglected Or Concealed Evidence of Torture, Plus My Interview With Press TV – OpEd « « Eurasia Review Eurasia Review

Sat, 30 Apr 2011 10:13:52 +0000

[...] countries to be tortured before they were sent to Guantánamo. This is something that’s been very obvious from research over the years, but it’s not something that the Bush administration ever accepted had [...]

By: Las raíces de la revolución en Siria | Amauta

Las raíces de la revolución en Siria | Amauta — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 23:29:34 +0000

[...] Unidas sobre los centros secretos de detención que se publicó el pasado año (PDF, véase aquí una muestra representativa de la sección donde se recoge la situación en Siria). Esta fue sólo [...]

By: Syria: Amazingly, The Next Crucible of Revolution in the Middle East? – OpEd « Eurasia Review

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 22:12:50 +0000

[...] Syria: Amazingly, The Next Crucible of Revolution in the Middle East? – OpEd Written by: Andy Worthington var addthis_product = 'wpp-254'; var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true};Last week I wrote an article about the unexpected awakening of popular unrest in Syria, when an unprecedented “Day of Rage” against the Ba’athist dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad was called by protestors in Damascus, and was followed the day after by another protest in which respected opposition figures — both Arabs and Kurds — called for the release of 21 political prisoners out of the many thousands of “prisoners of conscience” held in Syria’s notorious prisons. These include Far Falestin in Damascus, whose reputation for torture was such that, when George W. Bush and his close advisors were looking for countries where men and boys seized in the “War on Terror” could be tortured, Syria was chosen, along with Egypt, Jordan and Morocco. [...]

By: Brave Protestors In Syria Call For Freedom « Eurasia Review

Brave Protestors In Syria Call For Freedom « Eurasia Review — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:41:25 +0000

[...] life (as did other Canadian citizens picked up and tortured on behalf of the Canadian government), at least ten other prisoners, including teenagers, who were rendered to Syria by the CIA, mostly from Pakistan, and mostly in [...]

By: Egypt: Some Progress On Release Of Political Prisoners Eurasia Review

Egypt: Some Progress On Release Of Political Prisoners Eurasia Review — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 11:02:25 +0000

[...] and disappearances,” Some, according to the Herald, were also looking for evidence relating to Egypt’s role in the Bush administration’s program of “extraordinary rendition” and torture, in which the government of Hosni Mubarak played a major part, and protesters carted off armloads [...]

By: The Year of Revolution: The “War on Tyranny” Replaces the “War on Terror” « Eurasia Review

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 09:19:49 +0000

[...] by establishing a global network of secret torture prisons, specifically utilizing the expertise of Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Syria and Uzbekistan, and also establishing its own torture prisons in Thailand, Poland, Romania and Lithuania, and in [...]