Sales: Oz detention centres worse than GuantanamoJournalist Leigh Sales was refused visitation rights to a detention centre in Australia because of “security issues”, although she visited Guantanamo Bay prison twice. Why are detention centres so surrounded in secrecy?
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Crikey Says: The Gitmo files
Some light post-holiday reading from our friends at WikiLeaks: thousands of pages of documents dating from 2002 to 2008, memoranda from JTF-GTMO, the Joint Task Force at Guantánamo Bay, to US Southern Command in Miami, Florida…
David Hicks: responding to the critics
On Sunday, December 12, the Sun Herald printed an article that falsely claims that i have broken my silence “for the first time”. At no time did I agree to an interview with the Sun Herald. At this time I have still never given an interview to any media, writes former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks.
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Pentagon bans journalists from Gitmo trial
The Pentagon has banned four US reporters from the Omar Khadr trial at Guantanamo Bay after they reported the name of a witness whose identity is under protective order. It’s another embarrassment in a disastrous trial, says Scott Horton.
My tortured life as a Gitmo prisoner
Omar Deghayes, a British resident who spent six years imprisoned in Guanatanamo Bay, explains how he went from a peaceful family life in Pakistan to having his eyes gouged by Gitmo guards, resulting in permanent blindness.
revealed Guard blows the whistle on Guantanamo “suicides”
In an explosive Harper’s expose, a US Army staff sergeant who was on duty the night three Guantanamo detainees allegedly committed suicide says the deaths weren’t suicides at all, and the military is guilty of a wide-spread cover-up.
Obama’s to-do list for 2010
NPR looks at a few small, routine chores Obama will need to take care of next year, like managing the global economy, closing Guantanamo, and avoiding a war with Pakistan.
Great unsolved mysteries in the War on Terror
It’s been a year since Bush left the White House, yet so much about his “War on Terror” is still unknown: what did Cheney really know? Where have all the CIA’s prisoners gone? Who forged the Yellowcake documents?
Welcome to the new Gitmo. It’s rather like the old one
Guantanamo Bay prison is closing, but inmates are simply being transferred to a ‘supermax’ facility in Illinois, won’t receive a trial and some won’t be charged with a crime at all. Why close Gitmo just to open a new one? asks Glenn Greenwald.
Detainee 063: Follow a Guantanamo interrogation in real-time
Detainee 063 is the shocking, real interrogation log of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammed al-Qahtani. The entries are being blogged and tweeted in real-time, seven years after they took place.
The big problem in prosecuting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed: torture
Prosecuting Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the confessed architect of 9/11, should be a no-brainer. But the torture he endured at the hands of Guantanamo interrogators may have ruined the entire case.
What will Obama do with the leftover Gitmo prisoners?
Barack Obama is honouring his pledge to close down the notorious Guantanamo prison, but how and where will the detainees be trialled in a fair manner? NPR explores the options, examining what justice means for Gitmo prisoners.
No. 1 with a bullet: which songs are on Guantanamo’s greatest hits list?
A coalition of musicians is calling on the US government to reveal which songs have been used to torture prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay. One prisoner claims to have been subjected to 20 straight hours of “The Real Slim Shady”.
Guantánamo guard: “Why I converted to Islam”
Six months into his work in the US military as a guard at the notorious Gitmo, Terry Holdbrooks converted to Islam with the help and mentoring of the prisoners. What made him do it?
The death penalty: clumsy, costly and morally dubious
Stories of grotesque bungles abound in death penalty literature, writes Lizzie O’Shea. So, why does the US continue to hand it out?
Greenwald: Obama’s Guantanamo closure was a sham
Obama’s pledge to close Guantanamo is the “biggest sham in American politics”: the administration just filed a legal brief [PDF] stating that detainees at Bagram Airfield have no constitutional rights whatsoever — including habeas corpus.
Photos emerge from Gitmo of 9/11 ringleader
New photos have been released of Guantánamo Bay inmate Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, regarded as the mastermind of 9/11, looking far different to his famous dishevelled capture photos. Will they inspire further terrorist attacks?
US court for terror suspects: Gitmo 2.0?
Barack Obama may have promised to close Gitmo, but there are ‘a thousand little Gitmos’ across the US, where terror suspects are being given unfair trials, writes Petra Bartosiewicz.
Norfolk Island attempts to recruit Guantanamo detainees
Norfolk Island is apparently in a spot of trouble with the federal government after they went behind Canberra’s back by allegedly offering to take in some former Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Gitmo Uighurs to Palau: “Er, we’d rather not…”
Five of 13 Uighur Guantanamo Bay detainees set for resettlement in Palau don’t want to go there, according to the country’s president.
Gitmo’s youngest detainee goes free
The youngest detainee being held in Guantanamo Bay, seized when he was just 14 years old, has been released after seven years in captivity.
Palau agrees to take Uighur detainees
In order to avoid diplomatic issues with China and keep their own hands clean, the US will pay the tiny Pacific island of Palau up to $200 million to take in 17 Uighurs formerly held in Guantanamo Bay.
Bottled waterboarding
CIA interrogators at Guantanamo employed a civilised tool for the brutal task of waterboarding — bottled water, straight from the fridge.
Guantanamo: the herpes of international politics
Jeff Sparrow and Greg Barns on the 17 Guantanamo detainees and Chinese Uighur men that President Obama wants Australia to resettle.
Humanity and torture: effective interrogation or brutality?
A fascinating panel on the difficult questions of torture raised by the controversies over interrogations of Al Qaida prisoners and others engaged in or suspected of terrorism since 9/11.
