Category: Andy Worthington

 World Can’t Wait received this message from Andy Worthington: Andy Worthington, London-based journalist and author of "The Guantánamo Files" (Pluto Press), has released the first definitive list of the 779 prisoners held…

By Andy Worthington Last Thursday, US resident Ali al-Marri, the last “enemy combatant” on the US mainland, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Peoria, Illinois, for providing material support for…

By Andy Worthington   As British resident Binyam Mohamed stepped off a plane at RAF Northolt on Monday February 23, six years and ten months since he was first abducted by the…

  By Andy Worthington   The “War on Terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, where the majority of the remaining 241 prisoners have been held for seven years without charge or trial,…

  By Andy Worthington     In Part One of this article, Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison, examined Dick Cheney’s…

By Andy Worthington   On December 11, the Senate Armed Services Committee issued a compelling report into the torture and abuse of prisoners in US custody (PDF), based on a detailed analysis…

by Andy Worthington  The case of Binyam Mohamed just gets weirder and weirder.  For the last six months, the British resident and Guantánamo prisoner, who was seized in Pakistan in April 2002,…

By Andy Worthington Last week, Bill Kovach, former Washington Bureau Chief of the New York Times and the founding chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists, blasted the US media for its…

By Andy Worthington Well, obviously, I don’t have proof, and the title’s just meant to lure you in. As an installment of my brief foray into the art world, this is an…

By Andy Worthington The Military Commissions at Guantánamo – the trial system for “War on Terror” prisoners that was established in the wake of the 9/11 attacks – are of enormous significance,…