guantanamo

Twenty years on Guantanamo and the War on Terror remain a stain on the US

Since then, 800 individuals have passed through its doors, suffering unimaginable ill-treatment – today, 39 remain detained, in effective legal…

2 years ago

Taxi driver freed from Guantanamo Bay after 17 years of brutal torture with no charges

Ahmed Rabbani’s release was announced on Friday by Reprieve, a human rights NGO. Rabbani had been unanimously cleared for release…

3 years ago

Russia’s latest prison torture scandal, like Guantanamo, shows the worst human rights violations happen out of sight, out of mind

Now behind bars in Tbilisi after a dramatic arrest last week, former Georgian president Mikhail Saakashvili must be hoping that…

3 years ago

Hactivist jailed in ‘Little Guantanamo’ says prison blocked him from contacting wife, covering for ‘sexually abusive’ guard

Gottesfeld is serving a 10-year sentence for a “cyberattack” on Boston Children’s Hospital in 2014 – which he says he…

3 years ago

Four Guantanamo inmates swapped for ‘deserter’ Bowe Bergdahl named as ministers in Taliban government

On Tuesday, the Taliban announced its first interim government for the war-torn nation, which is now under the group’s control.…

3 years ago

First under Biden, Guantanamo Bay prisoner released after 19 YEARS of detention without charges

The move was announced by the US military in a statement on Monday. The Pentagon described the release as a…

3 years ago

Will Guantanamo ever close or is America just waiting for the remaining 40 prisoners to die one by one?

After a while, some things that at first seemed shocking and disturbing somehow become normalised and melt into the background.…

3 years ago

Biden to ‘review’ Guantanamo prison with ‘intention’ to close facility by end of term – 12 years after Obama made same promise

White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced the move during a Friday press conference after she was asked about the…

3 years ago

Ex-Guantanamo chief prosecutor calls for ‘DOMESTIC WAR ON SEDITION,’ suggests GOP congressman more guilty than Gitmo detainees

“I was chief prosecutor at Guantanamo for over two years, and there's far more evidence of Congressman Madison Cawthorn's guilt…

3 years ago