Published on Wednesday, March 15, 2006 by the Independent / UK
Six Palestinian prisoners, including a militant accused of the murder of an Israeli government minister in 2001, surrendered last night after a nine-hour armed siege that began when British monitors abandoned the jail where the men were being held.
The siege had triggered a wave of protest attacks and abductions directed against foreigners across Gaza and the West Bank and there were heavy exchanges of fire outside the (...)
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Israeli Attack on Jericho Jail Sparks Uprising in Gaza and West Bank by Donald Macintyre
15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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Israel/Occupied Territories: Palestinian prisoners at risk of being killed by Israeli forces
15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
2 commentsAmnesty International is deeply concerned about the safety of Palestinian detainees in Jericho Prison. The prison is currently surrounded by Israeli forces who have threatened to kill detainees who refuse to surrender to them.
The detainees most at risk are Ahmad Saadat, leader of the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and four other Palestinians who have been detained at Jericho Prison since 2002 despite a court decision ordering their release. While detained (...) -
Gitmo Detainee Allegedly Tortured at 15 to Face Tribunal
14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentCatherine Komp, The NewStandard Omar Khadr, accused of committing war crimes at the age of 15, is slated to go before a military panel next month at Guantánamo in what his attorneys say is a violation of international youth rights.
Mar. 13 - With the US military moving forward with the unprecedented trial of a prisoner captured at age 15, human rights lawyers are appealing to an (...) -
10-year-old boy prisoner of Guantanamo Bay — found innocent after two years of detainment
11 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
6 commentsFebruary Sunday 19th 2006 (05h00) : 10-year-old boy prisoner of Guantanamo Bay — found innocent after two years of detainment 23 comment(s). From: Eric Smith> Date: Thu, 1 Apr 2004 02:10:46 +0900 To: http://www.thenation.com/outrage/in... (hyperlinks also follow story.)
You’re kidding, right? That’s it?
After holding Brits in our extralegal dungeons for two years, one day we just let ’em go?
We’ve still got more than 600 people imprisoned in our Halliburton-built prison camp (...) -
US asks court to drop ex-detainees’ torture suit
7 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
2 comments33 minutes ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department asked a federal court on Monday to dismiss a lawsuit charging that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld bears responsibility for the torture of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In its first substantive response to the lawsuit filed by two rights groups, the Justice Department said the suit against Rumsfeld should be dismissed based on the "absolute immunity" granted federal officials under 1988 legislation on (...) -
New Iraq Reconstruction Funds Devoted Solely to Prisons
2 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
In other news, the State Department quietly announced this week it has requested $100 million dollars for Iraqi reconstruction - all of it for prisons. The Bush administration initially promised $20 billion dollars to reconstruct Iraqi infrastructure. But much of the money has been diverted to security. State Department Iraq coordinator James Jeffrey said the $100 million dollar prison project was the lone new reconstruction effort the US government will undertake over the next year. (...)
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FBI Memos Reveal Torture Approved by Top Officials
27 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
by Drew Brown, Knight-Ridder News
WASHINGTON - Military interrogators posing as FBI agents at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, wrapped terrorism suspects in an Israeli flag and forced them to watch homosexual pornography under strobe lights during interrogation sessions that lasted as long as 18 hours, according to one of a batch of FBI memos released Thursday.
FBI agents working at the prison complained about the military interrogators’ techniques in e-mails to their (...) -
The case for closing Guantanamo is overwhelming
26 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
1 commentMore than four years after the American detention camp at Guantanamo Bay opened, the range of voices calling for it to close is widening. Overseas, it runs from the Democrat former US President Jimmy Carter, through UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the International Committee of the Red Cross, to the conservative Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Here, advocates of closure now include the Lord Chancellor, Lord Falconer, Attorney-General Lord Goldsmith, the Northern Ireland (...)
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Archbishop of York attacks Blair
26 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
Archbishop of York attacks Blair
UPI | February 25 2006
LONDON: John Sentamu, the Ugandan-born Archbishop of York, says British Prime Minister Tony Blair endorses "Idi Amin-style" practices by the United States.
Sentamu believes Blair should have taken a stronger stand against the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo, the Times of London reported. The prime minister called it an "anomaly."
"By declaring ’war on terror’ President Bush is perversely applying the rules of engagement (...) -
Before Bush, no leader modern history, not even Hitler, Stalin, or Mao, has publicly demanded the right to torture
26 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
ON BEING "GOOD AMERICANS" IN A TIME OF TORTURE by Fred Branfman February 25, 2006
"Gestapo interrogation methods included: repeated near drownings of a prisoner in a bathtub." "The CIA officers say 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed lasted the longest under waterboarding, two and a half minutes, before beginning to talk, with debatable results." - Brian (...)