By Andy Worthington On Friday, the Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. delivered a genuinely disturbing ruling regarding prisoners in the US prison at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan. This ruling…
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House Kills Plan to Close Guantánamo
By Andy Worthington President Obama’s hopes of closing Guantánamo, which were already gravely wounded by his inability to meet his self-imposed deadline of a year for the prison’s closure, now appear…
Prosecuting a Tortured Child: Obama’s Guantánamo Legacy
by Andy Worthington Since coming to power 15 months ago, promising to close Guantánamo within a year, and suspending the much-criticized Military Commission trial system for terror suspects, President Obama’s zeal for…
Andy Worthington Discusses “Guantánamo Habeas Week” on Antiwar Radio
By Andy Worthington The ever-indignant Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio and I discussed my “Guantánamo Habeas Week” project (now expanded as “Guantánamo Habeas Fortnight”), in which I put together an interactive list…
Guantánamo Habeas Results: Prisoners 34, Government 13
Throughout this week, Andy Worthington is running a "Guantanamo Habeas Week" on his site (with cross-posts on other sites), in an attempt to raise awareness of the important rulings being made in…
Guantánamo Habeas Week: Exposing Torture, Misconceptions and Government Incompetence
By Andy Worthington In an attempt to raise awareness of the importance of the rulings being made in US courts on the habeas corpus petitions of the prisoners held at Guantánamo (as…
Former Army Colonel Demolishes Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld’s Lies About Guantánamo
By Andy Worthington Those of us who have been studying the recent career of Col. Lawrence Wilkerson were not surprised when, last week, he submitted a declaration (PDF) in a lawsuit…
The Case of Abu Zubaydah: Torture at its Most Cruel and Toxic
By Andy Worthington The story of Abu Zubaydah — a Saudi-born Palestinian whose real name is Zayn al-Abidin Muhammad Husayn — has always been absolutely central to the “War on Terror.”…
More Dark Truths from Guantánamo, as Five Innocent Men Released
By Andy Worthington After eight years’ imprisonment without charge or trial, five former Guantanamo prisoners are beginning new lives this week — two in Switzerland and three in Georgia. Their…
Worldwide Protests on Aafia Siddiqui Day, March 28, 2010
by Andy Worthington March 28th was the seventh anniversary of the day that Pakistani neuroscientist Dr. Aafia Siddiqui and her three young children were reportedly abducted in Karachi, leading to Aafia’s disappearance…