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U.S.
brings Iraq prison camp out of black hole
Posted: 15 Oct 2008 09:55 PM CDT
U.S.
brings Iraq prison camp out of black hole (ahem.. by force thanks to
those who work so hard to demand accountability from the US Government)
By Peter Graff
In the visiting hall of the U.S. prison camp, Delal Hashem, 25, sat
opposite her husband Abbas Daoud Salman with the children she had
brought to see [...] ![]() |
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Turkey:
Another political detainee tortured and killed in prison
Posted: 15 Oct 2008 09:46 PM CDT
Turkish
police, prison officers and gendarmerie tortured and killed 29-year-old
Engin Ceber on October 10. Ceber had been arrested, along with three
others—Aysun Baykal, Özgür Karakaya and Cihan Gün—while distributing a
special issue of a legal magazine, Yürüyüs, in the Sariyer district of
Istanbul. Ceber was a member, together with his three friends, of the
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Evin
is still Middle East’s biggest prison for journalists after Emadoldin
Baghi’s release
Posted: 15 Oct 2008 09:43 PM CDT
Reporters
Without Borders is relieved that Emadoldin Baghi, a journalist and
human rights activist with serious health problems, has been released
from Tehran’s Evin prison. A leading campaigner for the rights of
prisoners of conscience, he nonetheless faces possible re-imprisonment
in two other cases currently before the courts. His release reduces the
number of journalists [...] ![]() |
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How
the U.S. Military Turned Me into a Terrorist
Posted: 15 Oct 2008 09:40 PM CDT
By
Aaron Glantz, Haymarket Books.
A powerful excerpt from ‘Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan’ lays
bare the racism at the core of the Iraq occupation.
In March of this year, a courageous group of veterans brought the war
home, at a historic event held in Silver Spring, Md., inspired by
Vietnam veterans a generation before. “Winter [...] ![]() |
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IHC
concerned over Aafia’s children
Posted: 15 Oct 2008 09:23 PM CDT
by
Faisal Kamal Pasha - Islamabad
The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has expressed its concern over the Dr
Aafia Siddiqui’s missing children and conveyed its concern to the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said Deputy Attorney General (DAG) Amjad
Iqbal Qureshi while talking to ‘The News’.
Earlier during the hearing DAG told the IHC that the ministry of [...] ![]() |
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Guantánamo’s
SERE Standard Operating Procedures
Posted: 15 Oct 2008 07:57 PM CDT
Public
At Last By STEPHEN SOLDZ
One of the most important documents of the U.S. torture program has
just become publicly available for the first time. This is the JTF GTMO
“SERE” Interrogation Standard Operating Procedure, now posted on the
website of the new documentary, Torturing Democracy. This document
clearly specifies that the abusive interrogation techniques [...] ![]() |
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PART
II: Detention Has a Wide, Destructive Impact in Iraq - Society
Undermined
Posted: 15 Oct 2008 07:45 PM CDT
by:
Nick Mottern and Bill Rau, t r u t h o u t | Report On August 5, 2008,
Richard Rowley posted a video on the Web site of the Pulitzer Center,
showing Iraqi families heading out into the desert of southern Iraq
before dawn to visit relatives imprisoned by the US at Camp [...] ![]() |
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PART
I: Detention Has a Wide, Destructive Impact in Iraq: Two Million May Be
Affected
Posted: 15 Oct 2008 07:41 PM CDT
by:
Nick Mottern and Bill Rau, t r u t h o u t | Report
Since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the US military reports it has
captured about 200,000 Iraqis, with some 96,000 of these being held at
one time or another in US prisons in Iraq.
This information, [...] ![]() |
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