Guantanamo attorney found dead in apparent suicide
An attorney who represented prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay was found dead last week in what sources said was a suicide.
As hunger strike by 100 detainees reaches its third month, the US president returns to calls for prison's closure.
The closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention centre was a top priority for Barack Obama during his first term as the US president, but since he began his second term, Obama has barely spoken of Guantanamo.
Shaker ‘tortured’ and Britain knew
BRITISH intelligence services were complicit in the torture of a South London dad, MPs claimed this week.
US drone strikes being used as alternative to Guantánamo, lawyer says
Lawyer who drafted White House drone policy says US would rather kill suspects than send them to Cuban detention centre
Guantanamo hunger strike renews debates over indefinite detention, ethics of force-feeding
Twice a day at the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, guards take a number of detainees from their cells, one at a time, to a camp clinic or a private room on their block.
Ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks to appeal terror verdict
FORMER Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks will appeal against his conviction for supporting terrorism next month, his lawyer says.
'Torture reinforcements' not 'medical personnel' arrive to combat Gitmo hunger strike
The U.S. military has confirmed that at least 40 "medical personnel" have arrived at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in order to expand a force-feeding operation designed to counter an ongoing hunger strike by more than 100 prisoners protesting their indefinite detention and ill treatment.
'Obama will never close Guantanamo,' says analyst
US President Barack Obama has pledged a new push to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, amid a growing prisoner hunger strike there.
Concerned about due process? Forget about drones for a second
Saudis arrested Australian in raid on alleged extremist group
Saudi Arabian security services snatched a West Australian man in a raid on the hideout of an alleged extremist group planning to wage war in Afghanistan – beginning an 18-month ordeal inside a maximum security Riyadh prison
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Terrorists jailed over conspiracy
THREE British Islamic extremists, including a Muslim convert originally from Dorset, have been jailed for terrorism.
Suspected Islamist terrorists held in Italy
The Prisoners speak: Reports from the hunger strike in Guantánamo
On Friday, I received an alarming message from inside Guantánamo, from a reliable source who described the impact of the prison-wide hunger strike, now nearing the three-month mark,...
UK to confiscate passports from ‘suspected’ terrorists, criminals, football hooligans
UK citizens can now be stripped of their passports for “actual or suspected” activities declared to be “contrary to the public interest” without a legal procedure, Conservative Home Secretary Theresa May has announced.
Obama: Guantánamo prison 'not in the best interests of the American people'
President says 'I don't want these individuals to die' as medical team arrives in Cuba to keep striking protesters alive
The road to hell is paved with secrets
At the risk of committing sociology, if not history, some thoughts on an issue that has vanished almost completely from public sight: Canada’s unresolved detainee dilemma and the Harper government’s policy on torture.
The Guantánamo Memoirs of Mohamedou Ould Slahi
Homecoming an illusion for 'freed' detainee
Shaker Aamer is the forgotten prisoner of the war on terror. Why is he still being held despite having been cleared for release six years ago? Mark Townsend reports
The irony of Muslim terrorism
Terrorism is the vilest crime because it robs people not only of their lives, but also of their safety and freedom.
Vic terror accused's trial set for October
A Melbourne man set to stand trial on charges of collecting al-Qaeda magazines to prepare for a terrorist attack is the only person who will be charged over the investigation, a court has heard.
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International human rights breaches - State accountability v State immunity
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Legal seminar: Preserving the rule of law: taking a risk
A discussion between noted human…
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Extradited to a future of torture: the reality of solitary confinement in America
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Spying and Entrapment
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Starving for justice
Shaker Aamer, Fayiz al-Kandari, Samir Moqbel and 163 other have been starving for over 100 days to get justice.
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Are Muslims active enough in the fight against Guantanamo?
Tariq Ramadan speaks to Moazzam Begg about the Guantanamo hunger strikers and…
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Guantanamo: 100 days of hunger strike - Template Khutba
For exactly 100 days today, Guantanamo detainees have been on hunger strike,…
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Muslim students discriminated against in the UK
Is the British government is really clamping down on Islamic extremism at British…
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Help Lynne Stewart, civil rights lawyer for Muslim defendants, stay alive
Lynne Stewart is a prominent civil rights lawyer who’s now facing the prospect of death on the inside.
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How your Schedule 7 swab could help get your family arrested
Have you ever been swabbed under Schedule 7 or in any criminal…
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Why haven't you signed the Shaker Aamer petition?
What do you see when you read the name? I often…



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