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Full ICRC Report Further Underscores Extent Of Torture And Abuse By U.S. Officials Tuesday, April 7, 2009 : NEW YORK – A full report from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) made public late Monday on the treatment of detainees in U.S. custody further underscores the extent of the systemic and far-reaching use of torture by American personnel and provides further evidence of the need for accountability for government officials who broke the law....
Posted: Wed, Apr 8, 2009 7:07am PDT
Guantanamo Attorneys Face Possible Prison Time for Letter to Obama Detailing Client's Allegations of Torture Tuesday, April 7, 2009 :Attorneys Clive Stafford Smith and Ahmad Ghappour could face six months in a US prison because of a letter they sent to President Obama explaining their client's allegations of torture by US agents. Smith and Ghappour represent Binyam Mohamed, the British resident recently released after seven years in US custody, where he claims he was repeatedly tortured, first in a secret CIA prison and later at Guantanamo....
Posted: Tue, Apr 7, 2009 8:30am PDT
Court rules detainees in Afghanistan can challenge imprisonment Saturday, April 4, 2009 :US Supreme Court decision in the case of Boumediene et al v. Bush, in which the high court ruled that the "enemy combatants" held at Guantánamo had the right to file habeas corpus petitions in US courts challenging the legality of their imprisonment....
Posted: Sun, Apr 5, 2009 8:53am PDT
Spanish court mulls US torture case Sunday, March 29, 2009 : Judge considers allegations of torture against six former Bush-era officials....
Posted: Sun, Mar 29, 2009 9:08am PDT
Amnesty International Lobby Days Amnesty International USA Lobby Days...
Posted: Wed, Mar 18, 2009 7:16pm PDT
Treatment of Imprisoned Muslims at Terre Haute's Communications Management Unit (CMU) Targeting Muslims for their faith and charity....
Posted: Wed, Mar 18, 2009 11:43am PDT
NLGSF Files Complaint With California State Bar Against William Haynes The National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter (NLGSF) is filing a complaint with the California State Bar today against former Department of Defense General Counsel William Haynes. The complaint against Haynes, who now works for the Chevron Corporation in San Ramon, states that he "breached his duty as a lawyer and advocated for harsh tactics amounting to torture in violation of U.S. and international law ... advocacy that directly lead to detainee abuses at the Guantanamo Bay an...
Posted: Mon, Mar 16, 2009 9:05am PDT
Guantánamo Judge Proceeds With Military Commissions In Defiance Of Obama Order Tuesday, March 10, 2009 : NEW YORK – In defiance of President Obama's order halting the Guantánamo military commissions, a military judge accepted a legal pleading filed by the five 9/11 suspects. Judge Col. Stephen R. Henley ordered the immediate public release of the filed document despite the fact that all other legal filings have been kept sealed for months by the military commissions....
Posted: Tue, Mar 10, 2009 6:22pm PDT
Police Torture Activist & Poet, Raul (Curly) Estremera 
[Raul (Curly) Estremera was wrongly arrested and brutally beaten by the Hayward police. He is a poet with a long history of standing up for human rights and against police brutality, including his active support for victims of police brutality in Santa Cruz and support for U.S. political prisoner Mumia Abu Jamal. Curly is known here in Santa Cruz because he never hesitated to make the trip over the hill from San Jose in support of the Santa Cruz Five at protests, forums, trials, and Citizen...
Posted: Sun, Mar 1, 2009 9:52am PST
Freed Gitmo Prisoner Binyam Mohamed Experienced "Nightmare We Can't Imagine" Thursday, February 26, 2009 :A British resident held in U.S. custody for seven years has accused U.S. officials of torturing him and beating him dozens of times while he was held at a secret CIA prison and later at Guantanamo. The Ethiopian-born Binyam Mohamed returned to Britain on Monday after becoming the first prisoner to be released from Guantanamo since President Obama took office.
We speak to Binyam Mohamed's attorney, Clive Stafford Smith....
Posted: Thu, Feb 26, 2009 7:24am PST
Fighting Against Criminalization of Protest: The Political Persecution of the RNC 8 
A very important case is unfolding in Minnesota—8 people are being singled out by the government for their role in the political protests at the 2008 Republican National Convention (RNC).
At the September ’08 RNC in St Paul, war criminal John McCain and right-wing religious fundamentalist Sarah Palin were being selected as the Republican ticket for the presidential race. The national media spent endless hours on things like Palin’s unmarried pregnant daughter. Meanwhile, the streets of St. P...
Posted: Mon, Feb 23, 2009 4:37pm PST
ACLU Opposes Justice Department Efforts To Throw Out Case Challenging Illegal Detention Of Guantánamo Prisoner Mohammed Jawa Wednesday, February 18, 2009 : WASHINGTON – The American Civil Liberties Union filed a motion today opposing the Justice Department's move to dismiss or delay a challenge to the unlawful detention of Mohammed Jawad, a Guantánamo prisoner who has been held in U.S. custody since he was a teenager....
Posted: Thu, Feb 19, 2009 7:31am PST
ACORN Launches Petition Against Racist Arizona Sheriff Tuesday, February 10, 2009 : There are some things that cannot go unchallenged. They are affronts to human dignity and to what it means to live in America. Last Wednesday, one of those things happened in Maricopa County, Arizona, where Phoenix is located. There, the county sheriff, Joe Arpaio, drawing on the worst aspects of Guantanamo Bay and America's use of the chain gang, marched 200 undocumented inmates of the County Jail across the city to their own special tent city....
Posted: Wed, Feb 11, 2009 7:25am PST
CIA nominee 'will forbid rendition' Thursday, February 5, 2009 : Obama's choice for CIA chief also declares waterboarding "torture"....
Posted: Thu, Feb 5, 2009 4:54pm PST
Despite Celebrated Orders Closing Gitmo and Banning Torture, Has Obama Kept Rendition Intact? Thursday, February 5, 2009 :When President Obama signed executive orders to end torture and shut down Guantanamo, did he leave open the controversial rendition policy of kidnapping foreigners abroad? We host a debate between human rights attorneys Michael Ratner and Scott Horton....
Posted: Thu, Feb 5, 2009 7:47am PST
Obama Endorses Bush Secrecy On Torture And Rendition Wednesday, February 4, 2009 : NEW YORK – After the British High Court ruled that evidence of British resident Binyam Mohamed's extraordinary rendition and torture at Guantánamo Bay must remain secret because of threats made by the Bush administration to halt intelligence sharing, the Obama administration told the BBC today in a written statement: "The United States thanks the UK government for its continued commitment to protect sensitive national security information and preserve the long-st...
Posted: Wed, Feb 4, 2009 7:21pm PST
ACLU Asks Secretary Of State Clinton To Clarify U.S. Policy On Exposing Torture And Rendition Wednesday, February 4, 2009 : NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter today to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton urging her to clarify the Obama administration's position related to the rendition case of Guantánamo detainee Binyam Mohamed and calling on her to reject the Bush administration's policy of using false claims of national security to avoid judicial review of controversial programs....
Posted: Wed, Feb 4, 2009 7:17pm PST
Obama to allow illegal CIA black site renditions to continue Spread this outrage. Let the hangover begin....
Posted: Sun, Feb 1, 2009 10:03pm PST