The hidden horrors of WikiLeaks' Guantánamo files
Andy Worthington on the significance of WikiLeaks' release of secret military documents on the Guantanamo prisoners.
Hiding horrific tales of torture: Why the US government reached a plea deal with Guantánamo prisoner Noor Uthman Muhammed
Andy Worthington on what lies behind the plea deal of Guantanamo prisoner Noor Uthman Muhammed in his Military Commission trial.
Algerian in Guantánamo loses habeas petition for being in a guest house with Abu Zubaydah
Andy Worthington on the omissions and distortions in a US judge's decision to deny the habeas petition of an Algerian.
Wikileaks: Numerous reasons to dismiss US claims that “ghost prisoner” Aafia Siddiqui was not held in Bagram
Andy Worthington explains why US officials' claims that Aafia Siddiqui was not held in Bagram should not be trusted.
Who are the remaining prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Five: Captured in Pakistan (1 of 2)
This is the fifth part of an exclusive eight-part series telling the stories of all 174 prisoners in Guantanamo.
Barbaric: 86-year sentence for Aafia Siddiqui
Andy Worthington responds to the bleak news of Aafia Siddiqui's monstrous 86-year prison sentence in New York.
Shaker Aamer and the Guantánamo prisoner list
New stories - including Shaker Aamer - added to the eight-part series telling the stories of the remaining prisoners in Guantanamo.
Who are the remaining prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Four: Captured crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (2 of 2)
This is the fourth part of an eight-part series telling the stories of all 174 prisoners in Guantanamo.
Who are the remaining prisoners in Guantánamo? Part Three: Captured crossing from Afghanistan into Pakistan (1 of 2)
This is the third part of an eight-part series telling the stories of all 174 prisoners in Guantanamo.
Introducing the definitive list of the remaining prisoners in Guantánamo
This eight-part series tells, for the first time, the stories of the 176 men still held in Guantanamo.
Who are the remaining prisoners in Guantánamo? Part One: The “Dirty Thirty”
This is the first of an eight-part series telling the stories of all the prisoners currently held in Guantánamo (176 at the time of writing).
Interview with Larry Siems
Will Poland’s former leaders face war crimes charges for hosting secret CIA prison?
Andy Worthington asks: Could war crimes charges in Poland trigger full exposure of the CIA's secret prison programme?
New evidence about prisoners held in secret CIA prisons in Poland and Romania
New revelations from Poland unearth more than was previously known about the secret CIA prisons in Poland and Romania. Andy Worthington reports.
UK should take example from Canada in extraditions
On a day when Babar Ahmad is now serving his sixth year in prison without having been charged with a single crime, the long awaited news has finally come for the Khadr family.
In Abu Zubaydah’s case, court relies on propaganda and lies
How US courts have overplayed the significance of torture victim Abu Zubaydah in a court case involving the Algerian, Sufyian Barhoumi.
How Jay Bybee has approved the prosecution of CIA operatives for torture
In Congressional testimony, Jay Bybee, who approved US torture memos, accuses the CIA of using unauthorized torture methods. Prosecutions, anyone?
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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