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Tuesday, June 5, 2007 :On May 20, Guantánamo Bay prisoner David Hicks was transferred from America’s most infamous jail to the Yatala Labour Prison in South Australia, under a deal concocted by the Howard government and the Bush administration. The arrangement is an attempt to legitimise the discredited and blatantly illegal US military commissions and dissipate mass hostility towards the Howard government over its violation of the Australian citizen’s basic legal rights....

In 2005, the American Psychological Association convened a Presidential Task Force on Psychological Ethics and National Security that concluded psychologists' participation in military interrogations was "consistent with the APA Code of Ethics." It was later revealed that six of nine voting members were from the military and intelligence agencies with direct connections to interrogations at Guantanamo and elsewhere. In a Democracy Now! broadcast exclusive, we speak with two members of the tas...

CAIRO — Jamil el-Banna and his family waited nearly four years for his release from Guantanamo, but as the moment of truth approaches he faces a "nightmare choice" between languishing in the notorious camp or being shipped to his home country where torture is a common jail practice....

The oral argument that will be heard before the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia to save the life of Mumia Abu-Jamal and hopefully free this innocent man is putting the entire Democratic Party and all of its worthless millionaire death penalty candidates in their well-deserved position of possibly losing the 2008 presidential election as they cannot win without the black vote....

CAIRO — Frustrated, depressed and suspicious, many of the prisoners at the US notorious Guantanamo jail in Cuba have lost faith in their lawyers — their only conduit to the outside world — who are facing growing restrictions imposed by the US administration, The New York Times reported Saturday, May 05....

In the wake of recent revelations of widespread torture and abuse at the Guantánamo Bay prison camp, the US Justice Department has taken legal action to restrict lawyers’ access to their clients incarcerated there. These lawyers have been an important source of news from inside the camp, despite being already subject to a strict set of rules established by the Pentagon and the DC Court of Appeals in 2004....

In this interview, San Francisco attorney Robert R. Bryan responds to the recent move from the Philadelphia DA requesting that the entire Third Circuit Court recuse itself from Mumia’s case....

Russian detainees, returned from artibrary detention at Guantanamo, suffered continued repression in spite of the fact that they were not the subject of criminal charges. According to Human Rights Watch: "Some reported, in fact, that their homes were so frequently searched that they were unable to provide exact dates of those searches." These men were sent to be tortured in their home country by a US regime that manipulates the use of Russian security forces toward its own ends....

A report released Thursday by Amnesty International (AI) describes “deteriorating” conditions at the infamous Guantánamo Bay, Cuba prison camp, citing an increase in the use of physical isolation to break prisoners, and an accompanying rise in mental health problems. The human rights group’s report calls for the immediate closure of the camp and affirms the right of victims to pursue reparations in US courts....

Dr. Sami Al-Arian, Palestinian political prisoner, is being held in a prison hospital, after a debilitating 60-day hunger strike seeking to draw the attention of the nation and the world to the injustice visited upon him, jailed for his commitment to justice and dignity for his homeland. This is not a scene from an Israeli jail, however, but from a U.S. prison in North Carolina. Al-Arian's hunger strike ended at the pleas of his family -- yet without justice for Al-Arian, whose imprisonment i...