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Time Running Out for Omar Khadr
After enduring eight years of torture and abuse as a child at Guantanamo, Omar Khadr is slated to face an unfair trial held by Guantanamo's military commissions - a system…
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Finally Home from GTMO
Good news: the US Department of Defense announced yesterday that Mohammed al-Odaini has been transferred home to Yemen. He had been held at Guantanamo without charge for over eight years--since…
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The Cancer of Democracy
Though some describe the Obama administration as the anti-torture presidency, much of Obama's actions have not lived up to his campaign promises or presidential rhetoric to stop the use of…
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Remembering Kalpana Chakma
It was about 14 years ago that a 20-year old indigenous rights activist Kalpana Chakma disappeared and is presumably dead. Â We know that she was kidnapped along with two of…
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GOOD NEWS on June 26! Odaini Going Home from GTMO
We have great news to share today on June 26, the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture: Mohammed al-Odaini will be released from Guantanamo back to his home…
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Cleared for Release for Years But Still Detained
Mohammed Mohammed Hassan al-Odaini is a 24-year-old Yemeni national held in Guantanamo for more than 8 years, despite the fact that he was cleared for release over 4 years ago.…
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Former US Military Interrogator: Release al-Odaini from Gitmo
Mohammed Mohammed Hassan al-Odaini remains detained in Guantanamo despite being cleared for release. Matthew Alexander, former U.S. senior military interrogator, argues that holding Odaini is, in fact, making America less…
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What Does Guantanamo Cost Us?
According to a recent Washington Post article, since 2001, the Pentagon has spent at least 500 million in renovating Guantanamo, in addition to approximately 150 million a year in operational…
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Torture Awareness Month
Speaking in Grand Rapids, Michigan, last Wednesday former President George W. Bush appeared to take personal responsibility for the decision to waterboard Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: “Yeah, we waterboarded Khalid Sheikh…
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Congressman Jack Bauer
You would be forgiven for thinking that Jack Bauer was actually running in the fall elections, as his name is being continually invoked on the campaign trial. The Daily Beast…
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Stop Press
The pretrial hearings in the Omar Khadr case ended last week on two particularly sour notes. First, in a profound blow to the credibility of the Military Commissions process the…
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Interrogator Admits to Using Rape Scenario as Fear Tactic
The last day of Omar Khadr’s pre-trial military commission hearing held over the past two weeks here at Guantánamo ended with a breakthrough for the defense team when they called…