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, by DUNCAN Brad
MUMIA ABU-JAMAL is facing a potentially fatal health crisis brought about by medical neglect and abuse suffered inside State Correctional Institution — Mahanoy in Eastern Pennsylvania. In addition he has been held incommunicado and denied visits from his lawyer, wife or independent physicians. (…)
, by CONNER Clifford D.
Guantánamo Diary. By Mohamedou Ould Slahi. Edited by Larry Siems. Little, Brown and Company, 2015, 379 pages, $29 hardcover.
THIS IS A book I initially did not want to read. I don’t think of myself as hypersensitive, but the recent official U.S. Senate report admitting and detailing CIA (…)
, by SHEPPARD Barry
Facing a massive hunger strike by desperate prisoners at the U.S. military base in Guantanamo, Cuba, President Obama has acknowledged that the prison should be shut down. He has said that before over four years ago when he was running for his first term, but did nothing after he was elected. (…)
, by BAKER Peter C.
Guantánamo An American History. By Jonathan M. Hansen.
With every year, the US naval base at Cuba’s Guantánamo Bay becomes less of a place and more of a concept, one that seems to have sprung from a vacuum on January 11, 2002, when twenty of the earliest detainees in the “war on terror” (…)
, by The Nation (USA)
The modern-day witch hunt against Muslim Americans orchestrated by Representative Peter King could not have come at a better time for the Obama administration. King seems to relish making incendiary statements—like his groundless claim that “80-85 percent of mosques in this country are (…)
, by ROBSON Peter
More than 500 people from 35 countries have been incarcerated in the Guantanamo Bay prison complex since 2002. Since becoming the detention centre for prisoners captured in US President George Bush’s unending “global war on terror”, it has been the source of numerous allegations of physical and (…)
, by HINMAN Pip, McCOY Alfred
Alfred McCoy, an expert on the CIA and its history of torture and a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin, slammed foreign minister Alexander Downer on the ABC’s June 13 Lateline program for claiming that Australian prisoner David Hicks was being treated humanely at the US prison (…)
AI Index: AMR 51/091/2006 (Public)News Service No: 149 12 June 2006
Amnesty International today called for a fully independent investigation led by civilians into the deaths of three Guantanamo detainees after apparent suicides.
The organisation also called on the US government to give the (…)
AI Index: AMR 51/029/2006 (Public)News Service No: 041 16 February 2006
USA: Amnesty welcomes UN call to close Guantánamo Bay - but it is tip of iceberg Amnesty International welcomes today’s United Nations report calling for the closure of the US military detention centre at Guantánamo Bay (…)
Four years ago, the USA transferred the first “war on terror” detainees - hooded and shackled - to the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba.
As the detention regime at Guantánamo Bay enters its fifth year, around 500 people from 35 countries continue to be held without charge (…)
, by CHOMSKY Noam, GORDIMER Nadine, LAMRANI Salim, MENCHU Rigoberta, PEREZ ESQUIVEL Adolfo
For over a century the United States has intervened, made war, imposed imperialist treaties against the rights of the Cuba people to sovereignty of their country.
In 1897, when Cuba was nearing victory in the Second War of Independence from Spain, Theodore Roosevelt urged the USA President (…)
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