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Pentagon reveals Guantanamo names The US defence department has released the names and nationalities of some of the inmates detained at its Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 5:46pm PST
Guantanamo man tells of 'torture' A Kuwaiti man being held at Guantanamo Bay has told the BBC in a rare interview that the force-feeding of hunger strikers amounts to torture....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 7:12am PST
Britain: Special Branch detain documentary actors and former Guantánamo prisoners Two actors in a new documentary film on the US prison camp at Guantánamo Bay and two former Guantánamo prisoners were detained and interrogated by the Special Branch on February 16....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 7:03am PST
Blair faces torrent of criticism on human rights Tony Blair remained defiant last night in the face of a torrent of protests over Britain's human rights record, accusing his critics of having "the world the wrong way round"....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 8:46pm PST
Horrors of Camp Delta are exposed by British victims An award-winning film director who reconstructed scenes of torture and abuse at Guantanamo Bay has called for the immediate closure of the US-run camp....
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 7:21am PST
Hunger strikers tortured at Guantanamo. UN report calls for closing U.S. prison Grisly details of torture of detainees at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are revealed in a new UN report, not yet released. The torture includes jamming feeding tubes up the nostrils of hunger strikers twice daily and force-feeding them Ex-Lax so they lose control of their bowels....
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2006 10:22pm PST
Archbishop of York: 'The Americans are breaking international law...' The Archbishop of York, Dr John Sentamu, has launched a passionate attack on President George Bush, saying his administration's refusal to close the notorious Guantanamo Bay camp reflected "a society that is heading towards George Orwell's Animal Farm"....
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 9:00pm PST
Omar Deghayes: A prisoner Britain prefers to forget When Omar Deghayes and his family arrived as refugees in Britain, they thought they had found a haven from secret police and torture....
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 8:59pm PST
Tutu calls for Guantanamo closure Archbishop Desmond Tutu has joined in the growing chorus of condemnation of America's Guantanamo Bay prison camp....
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 5:47pm PST
Professor McCoy Exposes the History of CIA Interrogation We now take a look at what lies behind the shocking images of torture at Abu Ghraib prison by turning to the history of the CIA and torture techniques. Professor Alfred McCoy talks about his book “A Question of Torture”, a startling expose of the CIA development of psychological torture from the Cold War to Abu Ghraib. CIA mercenaries attempted to assassinate McCoy more than 30 years ago....
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 7:36am PST
UN report denounces US torture and calls for closure of Guantánamo prison camp A United Nations investigation has found that the US is committing acts amounting to torture at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The report, released Thursday, is a stinging rebuke to the American government’s illegal practices, justified in the name of the so-called “war on terrorism.” The UN body is calling for the prison camp to be closed....
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 6:31am PST
Annan backs UN Guantanamo demand The UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, has said the United States must shut down Guantanamo Bay prison camp "as soon as is possible"....
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 7:30pm PST
U.N. Report Calls for the Closing of Guantanamo, Former Prison Chaplain Yee Details Abuses The United Nations has called on the Bush administration to immediately close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba. In a report on conditions at the prison recently released, the U.N. says the United States should try all detainees or release them "without further delay." We speak with former military Chaplain Yee, who was falsely accused of espionage by the U.S military and faced death penalty charges that were eventually dropped....
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 7:48am PST
New Abu Ghraib images broadcast 
An Australian TV channel has broadcast previously unpublished images showing apparent US abuse of prisoners in Iraq's Abu Ghraib jail in 2003....
Posted: Wed, Feb 15, 2006 7:07am PST
UN report calls for closure of Guantánamo A UN inquiry into conditions at Guantánamo Bay has called on Washington to shut down the prison, and says treatment of detainees in some cases amounts to torture, UN officials said yesterday....
Posted: Mon, Feb 13, 2006 6:46pm PST
US Straps Down Guantanamo Hunger Strikers NEW YORK U.S. military authorities have taken tougher measures to force-feed detainees engaged in hunger strikes at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, after concluding that some of them were determined to commit suicide to protest their indefinite confinement, military officials have said....
Posted: Thu, Feb 9, 2006 7:00am PST
Guantánamo: A life sentence of suffering and stigmatization The US detention centre at Guantánamo Bay is condemning thousands of people across the world to a life of suffering, torment and stigmatisation....
Posted: Mon, Feb 6, 2006 7:16am PST
Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps A little-known $385 million contract for Halliburton subsidiary KBR to build detention facilities for "an emergency influx of immigrants" is another step down the Bush administration's road toward martial law, the writer says....
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 6:54am PST
The Truth About Guantanamo -- An Interview With Capt. James Yee As one of the U.S. Army's few Muslim chaplains, Capt. James Yee thought he was serving both God and country at Guantanamo Bay. But in September 2003, two days after receiving an excellent evaluation, Chaplain Yee was arrested, charged with espionage and thrown into solitary confinement for 76 days. When he left the Army in 2005 after all charges were dropped, he received a medal. He recounts his journey from Muslim American poster boy to Enemy of the State in his memoir, "For God and Cou...
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 5:18pm PST
Guantanamo: Scandal of force-fed prisoners Hunger strikers are tied down and fed through nasal tubes, admits Guantánamo Bay doctor...
Posted: Sun, Jan 8, 2006 1:34pm PST