As the British legal action charity Reprieve launches a new initiative, Zero dB (against music torture), which encourages musicians to take a…
The repatriation from Guantánamo of Salim Hamdan, a former driver for Osama bin Laden, to serve out the last month of his…
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On Sunday, in his first television interview since winning the Presidential election, Barack Obama repeated his campaign pledge to close the prison…
The case of Binyam Mohamed just gets weirder and weirder. For the last six months, the British resident and Guantánamo prisoner, who…
In any credible court system, the eve-of-election conviction of an associate of Osama bin Laden for producing promotional material for al-Qaeda, which…
On September 10, the Independent featured an article about Guantánamo prisoner and British resident Binyam Mohamed, which included exclusive extracts from a…
News that three more prisoners have been released from Guantánamo is cause for celebration, as all three men should never have been…
In the lawless world of Guantánamo — and the United States’ even murkier network of secret prisons run by or on behalf…
Two years and two months after three prisoners at Guantánamo died, apparently as the result of a coordinated suicide pact, the Naval…
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