Guantanamo & Torture

Reclaiming America’s Soul

October 7, 2009
Reclaiming America’s Soul

By Paul Krugman New York Times April 23, 2009 Nothing will be gained by spending our time and energy laying blame for the past.” So declared President Obama, after his commendable decision to release the legal memos that his predecessor used to justify torture. Some people in the political and media establishments have echoed...
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UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

October 7, 2009
UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

By Navi Pillay June 26, 2009   The prohibition of torture is one of the most absolute to be found anywhere in international law.  Article 2 of the Convention against Torture is unequivocal: “No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public...
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Witness Against Torture: Fasting for Justice

January 17, 2009
Witness Against Torture: Fasting for Justice

Once again, human rights activists gathered to mark a sad and shameful anniversary in the history of the United States. On January 11th, seven years ago the first planeload of men arrived at Guantanamo-hooded and shackled. Since then, more than 1,000 men have passed through this 21st century penal colony-tortured, abused, told they would...
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Human Rights Groups Wrangle with CIA Over “Ghost Prisoners”

October 20, 2008

By William Fisher New York (IPS), 2008 The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency has refused to release more than 7,000 documents related to its programs of secret detentions, renditions, and torture, and is asking a federal judge to dismiss a Freedom of Information lawsuit demanding disclosure. The refusal came last week in the CIA’s response...
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Winter Soldier Investigation into the Iraq War

October 20, 2008

By Aaron Glantz Silver Spring, MD (IPS), 2008 I would like to share with you how one goes about becoming a concentration camp guard without having made many decisions,” 24-year-old former Guantanamo prison guard Christopher Arent told a crowd of hundreds at last weekend’s Winter Soldier gathering outside Washington, DC. “I was 17 years...
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