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Taxi to the Darkside (video/x-pn-realvideo 46.3MB) In this shocking film, Oscar nominated director Alex Gibney tells the story of Dilawar, a young Afghan taxi driver arrested and questioned by the US forces at Bagram airbase. Just days after his arrest he was dead. Gibney exposes the extraordinary methods employed by Dilawar's interrogators - described by many contributors as torture. He then traces the chain of command which authorised the techniques, ending up at the White House itself. He sees how the methods migrated from Bagram to Guanta...
Posted: Tue, Oct 9, 2007 9:05am PDT
Before and Beyond Jena (audio/mpeg 1.9MB) After the ravages of Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans and its surrounding areas, hundreds of imprisoned people were transported to the Jena Juvenile Justice Center, in Jena, Louisiana, a place that became their nightmare. The place was so medieval and tortuous in its treatment of young people, that it was severely criticized by a federal judge as a place where people were "treated as if they walked on all fours," before it was closed....
Posted: Thu, Oct 4, 2007 8:01am PDT
ACLU Cheers DOD Amendment Restoring Habeas Corpus Due Process Rights Wednesday, September 19, 2007 : Washington, DC – The American Civil Liberties Union applauds today’s Senate vote of 56 to 43 on a procedural motion related to an amendment to the defense authorization bill that would restore habeas corpus rights. It is now clear that with a majority of senators voting for the amendment, habeas restoration is not only needed, but also desired by the Senate....
Posted: Wed, Sep 19, 2007 7:46pm PDT
Al-Jazeera man 'close to death' at Guantanamo Bay An al-Jazeera journalist captured in Afghanistan six years ago and sent to Guantanamo Bay is close to becoming the fifth detainee at the US naval base to take his own life, according to a medical report written by a team of British and American psychiatrists...
Posted: Thu, Sep 13, 2007 7:35am PDT
Guantánamo: al-Jazeera Cameraman Sami al-Haj Fears That He Will Die Tuesday, September 11, 2007 : In a report from Guantánamo in the Press Gazette, Clive Stafford Smith, the legal director of London-based legal charity Reprieve, files a report on a recent visit, based on the sections of his notes that have been declassified by the US military....
Posted: Tue, Sep 11, 2007 7:15am PDT
Jose Padilla Conviction: The Expanding U.S. Machinery of Repression 
On August 16, a federal court in Miami convicted Jose Padilla on the charge of “conspiracy to murder, kidnap, and maim persons in a foreign country” and two other charges. Padilla, along with two co-defendants, faces life in jail. The treatment of Jose Padilla as an “enemy combatant,” along with his just-completed trial, was a process of “first the verdict, then the sentence and then trial.” This whole thing both concentrates and is a spearhead in overturning long-established legal principle...
Posted: Mon, Sep 3, 2007 3:32pm PDT
"The APA Has Long Been a Clan" - Psychologist, Author Mary Pipher Returns APA Award over Interrogation Policy Wednesday, August 29, 2007 :
"I think that the APA has long been a clan," said Mary Pipher, a clinical psychologist and author of Reviving Ophelia" among several other books. She returned her Presidential Citation award from the America Psychological Association in protest over the group's policy on military and CIA interrogations. "The top leadership, the people on the council have been there for decades. It's a very ingrown group of people and I think we probably need some new leadershi...
Posted: Wed, Aug 29, 2007 8:54am PDT
Attorney Scott Horton: Gonzales Resignation Puts Torture, Guantanamo Back on Center Stage in Washington Tuesday, August 28, 2007 :
"The resignation of Alberto Gonzales is putting the question of torture, Guantanamo and related issues back in center stage in Washington," said Columbia law professor Scott Horton. "We know down to the end, he was the last major ally of Vice President Cheney on these issues so his replacement could make all the difference."...
Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2007 4:46pm PDT
Political Censorship - The Scottish Prison Service and Guantanamo Bay A jail manager at HMP Glenochil in Stirlingshire has decreed that any material,
written or musical, that is critical of the US detention/torture center on
Guantanamo Bay is banned from being circulated within the jail....
Posted: Tue, Aug 21, 2007 8:48am PDT
American Psychological Association Rejects Blanket Ban on Participation in Interrogation of U.S. Detainees Monday, August 20, 2007 :
The American Psychological Association (APA) has voted to overwhelmingly reject a measure that would have banned its members from participating in interrogations at Guantanamo Bay and other US detention centers. While not banning psychologists from participating in interrogations, the council approved a resolution prohibiting involvement in interrogations that use at least 14 specified methods, including sleep deprivation, sexual humiliation and mock executions. D...
Posted: Tue, Aug 21, 2007 8:42am PDT
APA Interrogation Task Force Member Dr. Jean Maria Arrigo Exposes Group’s Ties to Military Monday, August 20, 2007 :
Dr. Jean Maria Arrigo was one of three civilian members of an APA task force that concluded psychologists were playing a “valuable and ethical role” in assisting the military. It was later revealed that that six of nine voting members were from the military and intelligence agencies with direct connections to interrogations at Guantanamo and elsewhere. At this weekend’s annual convention Dr. Arrigo exposed the inner workings of the group in an extraordinary speech...
Posted: Tue, Aug 21, 2007 8:41am PDT
Bush Denies Visits from Red Cross to "Unlawful Enemy Combatants" "...this order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity, against the United States, its departments, agencies, or other entities, its officers or employees, or any other person." GEORGE W. BUSH...
Posted: Sun, Aug 19, 2007 7:45pm PDT
Britain: Guantánamo detainee details years of torture Wednesday, August 15, 2007 :A British resident, Omar Deghayes, detained at Guantánamo Bay as an alleged terrorist, reports that he has suffered years of torture, sexual abuse and death threats. Last week, Omar’s family released a dossier documenting his terrible ordeal, which he dictated to a lawyer visiting the United States-run military prison....
Posted: Wed, Aug 15, 2007 6:53am PDT
The Black Sites: A Rare Look Inside the C.I.A.’s Secret Interrogation Program Wednesday, August 8, 2007 :
Jane Mayer of the New Yorker reports that the International Committee of the Red Cross has concluded the CIA's detention and interrogation methods is tantamount to torture. Sources told Mayer that the confidential Red Cross report also warned that U.S. officials responsible for the abusive treatment at the secret prisons may have committed "grave breaches" of the Geneva Conventions, and may have violated the U.S. Torture Act. We talk to Mayer and Jameel Jaffer, ...
Posted: Wed, Aug 8, 2007 7:47am PDT
UK requests Guantanamo releases Tuesday, August 7, 2007 : Foreign minister writes to the US asking for five British residents to be freed....
Posted: Tue, Aug 7, 2007 11:12am PDT
Red Cross confirms Bush administration, CIA used torture in interrogations Monday, August 6, 2007 :A confidential report by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) suggests that Bush administration officials may have committed war crimes in the operation of CIA “secret prisons” overseas, according to a lengthy analysis published on the web site of the New Yorker magazine Sunday....
Posted: Tue, Aug 7, 2007 8:30am PDT
Congress authorizes vast expansion of domestic spying Sunday, August 5, 2007 :The House of Representatives approved legislation Saturday that provides sweeping new powers to the government to spy on the American population. The 227-183 vote in the Democratic-controlled House capped a weeklong campaign by the Bush administration to push through changes in laws governing wiretapping surveillance, in which Bush officials branded any legislators opposed to the revisions as “soft on terror.” The Democrats’ surrender to White House demands to pass the...
Posted: Sun, Aug 5, 2007 10:44pm PDT
Trial of David Hicks 'a charade' Tuesday, July 24, 2007 : The Guantanamo Bay trial of Australian national David Hicks was a charade, Australia's top legal body says....
Posted: Tue, Jul 24, 2007 8:20pm PDT
Tajikistan: Ex-Gitmo prisoner to sue Bush, Pentagon 
Tajikistan: Guantanamo ex-prisoner will sue George W. Bush and the Pentagon
20.07.2007 18:29 msk
Shukhrat Shodiyev
Abdul-Karim Ergashev, citizen of Tajikistan and ex-prisoner in Guantanamo, intends to slap US President George W. Bush and the Pentagon with an injury claim....
Posted: Sun, Jul 22, 2007 4:05pm PDT
CIA TORTURE FLIGHTS THROUGH GERMANY REPRINTED FROM DER SPIEGEL...
Posted: Thu, Jul 19, 2007 4:55pm PDT