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Online Panel With Former Guantanamo Detainee Omar Degahayes
Go to www.livestream.com/amnestywest at 7:30PM Pacific time on Wednesday, January 26th to watch a live panel discussion with former Guantanamo detainee Omar Deghayes, Candace Gorman, whose work has included representing…
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Kangaroos Storm DC to Close Guantanamo!
[caption id="attachment_16744" align="alignleft" width="454" caption="The kangaroo photos are further down!"][/caption] On January 11th, over 200 activists marched from the White House to the Department of Justice to mark the 9th anniversary…
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Join the Close Guantanamo March in DC on Jan 11
Join us in Washington DC on January 11th for a march to close Guantanamo! We'll gather at the White House at 11AM for some short speeches and then march to the…
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Congress Blocks Prosecution of Gitmo Detainees in Federal Courts
Amnesty International denounces the passage of the Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 6523) by the U.S. Senate and House prohibiting prosecution of Guantanamo detainees in Federal Courts. Today’s vote will only…
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Funding Bill Threatens Fair Trials for Detainees
The Senate is about to vote on an omnibus spending bill which includes a provision that would represent a major setback to the fight for human rights at Guantanamo.
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A Moral Quagmire
The British government announced that it had reached a settlement to pay compensation to sixteen former Guantanamo detainees for the abuses they suffered in US custody.
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Old School Justice
Don’t be fooled by the mock outrage. The system worked. A real trial took place in lower Manhattan and Ahmed Ghailani was rightly convicted of his role in the horrific…
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Another Presidential Flip-flop
The Obama administration is apparently considering holding Khalid Sheik Mohammed and other GTMO detainees indefinitely as Prisoners of War. Far from closing GTMO, the new Obama plan seems to be…
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Try KSM in a Kangaroo Court at GTMO? Fuhgeddaboudit.
 In this new video, New Yorkers for 9/11 Justice are urging President Obama to do the right thing and prosecute Khalid Shiekh Mohammed and the other four 9/11 suspects in U.S. federal…
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Try KSM in a Kangaroo Court at GTMO? Fuhgeddaboudit.
 In this new video, New Yorkers for 9/11 Justice are urging President Obama to do the right thing and prosecute Khalid Shiekh Mohammed and the other four 9/11 suspects in U.S. federal…
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UN Human Rights Council Reviews U.S. Human Rights Record
This past Friday, the United States appeared before the UN Human Rights Council for its Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The UPR is a process through which the human rights records…
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A Week in Politics
As the dust settles on the midterm election we thought it might be useful to take a moment to assess what implications the results have for the Counter Terror with…