Andy Worthington reports on letters revealed in court at Guantanamo last week, which show Omar Khadr's kindness and humanity.

In this series of essays the solicitor Gareth Peirce, who over decades has represented people subjected to the most egregious human rights violations in the UK, has laid bare the frightening current picture of legal and governmental practice in the UK and the US which shames our civilisation.

We are in the grip of yet another so-called terror plot designed to terrify the wits out of everyone.

"While the world continues to speculate what Aafia baji has been up to in all those years that she went missing, I will continue to keep alive my memories of me and her chasing those blue budgies around in circles and laughing together. Just like those birds wanted not be caught, caged and instead, fly free, I know for sure, so too does Aafia baji."

Andy Worthington on how the US authorities have continued to distort Omar Khadr's case in the sentencing hearings this week.

Andy Worthington wonders whether Omar Khadr's plea deal involves the truth, and despairs that it defends the broken Commission system.

Robert Fisk delivers a searing dispatch after the WikiLeaks revelations that expose in detail the brutality of the war in Iraq - and the astonishing, disgraceful deceit of the US

Throughout her trial in New York Dr Aafia Siddiqui tried in vain to sack her legal team as is the right of any defendant in any court in the world today.

Andy Worthington asks why evidence of torture in secret CIA prisons was excluded from a recent habeas corpus petition.

EXCLUSIVE: Umm Sahl writes about the plight of her husband, Omar Awadh Omar, detained unlawfully in Uganda.