UPDATE: Ali Asad Chandia
Ali Asad Chandia writes to Cageprisoners. Write back to him to show your appreciation for the Eid Mubarak picture he sent:
An iftar at the White House
(Abu Sulayman)
UPDATE: John Walker Lindh
A Mussulman Paddy’s Epistle to Barry
Ode to Omar Khadr
The ballad of the fleas
The month of patience
The hardest part of any personal calamity is that which directly affects your loved ones. That was the case for me during three years away from my family. Not knowing what had happened to them, how they were surviving or who might be looking after them was perhaps the most consistent and internally destructive source of worry during that period. Still, I could reasonably assume who might come to their assistance.
Ramadan force-feeding, and renewed secrecy surrounding hunger strikers in Guantánamo
The US authorities try to dress up force-feeding prisoners at night as kindness and concern during Ramadan.
Ramadan at Guantánamo: Nightly force-feedings
Here's a new twist in the U.S. military's Islamic sensitivity effort in the prison camps for suspected terrorists at the Guantánamo Bay Navy base:
Military medical staff are force-feeding a secret number of prisoners on hunger strike between dusk and dawn during the Muslim fasting holiday of Ramadan.
Ramadan: the month of victories for the people of truth and justice
All praise is due to Allaah who has marked out tonight as the beginning of the blessed month of Ramadan.
The way out - a reminder for Ramadhan
The Guantanamo prisoners have, despite unimaginable odds, faced their ordeal with dignity and strength sustained by an unshakeable faith. This is one of the reasons why so many of them have returned stronger - not weaker - for the experience of imprisonment.
The Best of Times
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
الحمد لله وحده والصلاة والسلام على من لا نبي بعده
I first read the Dickens’ classic, Bleak House, in solitary confinement, Camp Echo. The concentric part of this story is based on the fictitious – though accurately representative – and never-ending case of Jarndyce vs Jarndyce which ultimately consumes and destroys the lives of its central characters, rather like the Supreme court decisions relating to the Guantánamo detainees. But it was the first sentence of another Dicken’s classic, A Tale of Two Cities, which reads, ‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,’ that captured my imagination back then. For that is precisely how I would have described the noble months of Ramadhan spent in US custody.
Events
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My Name is Ahsan – Public Meeting on Unjust Extradition of British Citizens to the US
Syed Talha Ahsan is the little-known co-defendant of Babar Ahmad. Ahsan has been diagnosed with…
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Syria's Zero Hour
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CASABLANCA PRISONERS 9 YEARS ON
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Glasgow: Guantanamo Remembered - 10 years
Cageprisoners comes to Al- Furqan…
What's New
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Guantánamo leaks lift lid on world's most controversial prison
• Innocent people interrogated for years on slimmest pretexts• Children, elderly and mentally ill among those wrongfully held• 172 prisoners remain, some…
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Casablanca bombings, the day after
Nine years after Morocco experienced the deadliest attacks in its recent…
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Abu Zubaydah, the man justice has forgotten
Arrested in 2002 and tortured repeatedly, he was never charged, and the…
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Angola 3: A lesson for Muslim causes
April 17th marked 40 years – over 14,600 days - that Herman Wallace…
Blog
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War on Freedom
It’s clear what’s happened to Muslims in the West – they’re the new enemies of the state.
Written by Aviva Stahl
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Close Guantanamo Bay Prison
Since the war on terror began in 2001, 700+ people have been…
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The Afghan Connection: the War on Terror an opiate cash cow
Afghanistan is the world's leading supplier of illegal opiates, trafficked as opium,…

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