In August 1966, Egyptian Islamist thinker and writer Sayyid Qutb was convicted in Cairo of conspiring against the state. 

Arzu Merali looks at the significance of the notorious prison camp

Ahmad Tourson spent eight years in Guantánamo as an innocent man. Then, in 2009, he was shipped off to the tiny island nation of Palau. His new situation, though, is untenable -- but the US government seems unwilling to do anything about it.

Last week I attended an event in London marking the 10-year anniversary of the American gulag at Camp Delta, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, organised jointly by Cage Prisoners, Islamic Human Rights Commission and Reprieve.

He must have been an impressive lecturer, tall, sharp-witted, of natural authority. A sharp intellect is the only thing that remained for Sami al-Laithy.

On 11^th January 2012 at London’s Conway Hall, Cage Prisoners presented ‘Guantanamo Remembered:  10 Years’ since the first of nearly 800 prisoners were sent to the US military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay.  Today 171 prisoners still remain in custody.

WASHINGTON (AP) — In northern Bucharest, in a busy residential neighborhood minutes from the center of Romania's capital city, is a secret that the Romanian government has tried for years to protect.

Ten years on from its creation, calls are mounting from legal and human rights experts for closure of the 'torture' centre on Cuba