Human Rights Watch has released a report entitled Locked Up Alone: Detention Conditions and Mental Health at Guantanamo which outlines the deplorable conditions still in existence at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba despite the condemnation from country leaders and NGO's, 6 years after it was reinstated for the US led coalitions "War on Terror". Read more »
After more than 6 years of being detained at Guantanamo Bay, Sami al-Hajj, who is a cameraman working for Al Jazeera has finally been released.
Sami al-Hajj was never charged with anything, but his passport was flagged by the Pakistan authorities for ties with Al Qaeda. Even though Sami al-Hajj had flagged that the passport flagged had been stolen previously, this did not stop the US led coalition from detaining Sami al-Hajj and imprisoning him for over 6 years at Guantanamo Bay without charge and without trial. Read more »
The former Guantanamo Bay chief prosecutor, Colonel Moe Davis, who was in charge when David Hicks was before the military commission on charges of providing material support for terrorism, has spoke out about the ongoing affairs at Guantanamo Bay. 1 Read more »
The US told the UN's Committee on the Rights of the Child that 2,500 youths under the age of 18 had been held, almost all in Iraq, for periods of up to a year or more, as "enemy combatants" in the war on terror and continues to hold around 500 youths. Read more »
According to a US official, Sami al-Hajj is a manipulator and a propagandist trying to garner public sympathy for the detainees at Guantanamo Bay. 1
Al Jazeera stated that Read more »
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