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The Talking Dog interviews Darrel Vandeveld, former Guantánamo prosecutor
I don’t often cross-post articles from other sites, but my good friend the Talking Dog has just posted an interview with Darrel Vandeveld, the former prosecutor in Guantánamo’s Military Commissions,...
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Binyam Mohamed’s Coming Home From Guantánamo, As Torture Allegations Mount
The Washington Post broke the news on Friday that Binyam Mohamed, British resident, Guantánamo prisoner, victim of “extraordinary rendition” and torture, and the subject of high-profile court cases on...
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Abu Qatada: Law Lords and Government Endorse Torture
There are times when politeness fails, and this, sadly, is one of them. On Wednesday, Britain’s Law Lords shamelessly discarded Britain’s adherence to the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) by...
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Binyam Mohamed’s statement on his release from Guantánamo
Reprieve, the legal action charity whose lawyers represent British resident and torture victim Binyam Mohamed, has just released the following statement from Binyam, who arrived back in the UK from...
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Obama’s “Humane” Guantánamo Is A Bitter Joke
The “War on Terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where the majority of the remaining 241 prisoners have been held for seven years without charge or trial, “complies with the humanitarian...
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Who Is Binyam Mohamed, the British resident released from Guantánamo?
As British resident Binyam Mohamed stepped off a plane at RAF Northolt on Monday February 23, six years and ten months since he was first abducted by the Pakistani authorities at Karachi airport, it...
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Anti-Torture Groups Request Special Prosecutor for Bush, Cheney War Crimes
Lawyers’ organizations, anti-war groups, peace groups and others today issued the following statement: Statement on Prosecution of Former High Officials We urge Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint...
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Ex-Guantánamo prisoner refused entry into UK, held in deportation centre
As one door opens, another, it seems, closes. While British resident Binyam Mohamed was on his was back to the UK from Guantánamo, Jarallah al-Marri, the Qatari national who was released from...
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Ex-Guantánamo prisoner Omar Deghayes talk about British agents’ visits in...
With the return of torture victim Binyam Mohamed to the UK on Monday, and John Hutton’s extraordinary confession today that, despite previous denials, British forces in Iraq in 2004 handed over two...
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Home Secretary ignores Court decision, kidnaps bailed men and imprisons them...
The Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, appears to have declared war on the government’s own secret terror court, overruling decisions made by judges in the Special Immigration Appeals Court (SIAC)...
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