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North Korea
North Korea fired artillery shells near the Yellow Sea’s maritime border with South Korea for a third day, a South Korean military spokesman said Friday.The North sent dozens of artillery shells near Yeonpyeong Island just 50 miles from the South Korean mainland, the Yonhap news agency reports.
Canada: Khadr
Canada’s Supreme Court ruled Friday that it [...]
Posted in Asia, Middle East, North America, Prison Industrial Complex, Shorter Question Everything Also tagged Canada, Chilcot inquiry, Iraq, North Korea, UK Leave a comment
UN Asks U.S. To ‘Stop Secret Detention and Abuse’
Badriya Khan/ Global Research / IDN
The UN has called on U.S. and other countries to put an end to their secret detention policies and human rights abuses in their so-called global war on terrorism. It has failed, however, to demand the immediate closure of two major U.S. “public” detention centres — Guantanamo and Bagram, where [...]
Posted in Prison Industrial Complex Also tagged Abu Ghraib, Bagram, black sites, CIA, Prisons, Rendition, Torture, UN, war crimes Leave a comment
Guantanamo should close within 3 years: report
Reuters
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – President Barack Obama should be able to close the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay during his first term, despite missing his original deadline, a senior U.S. State Department official said on Wednesday.
U.S. Ordered to Produce Detainee Abuse Evidence
Avery Fellow / courthousenews
(CN) – A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ordered the government to produce evidence of alleged prisoner abuse and torture in response to a Guantanamo detainee’s bid for release.
U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth partially granted prisoner Ahmad Mohammad Al Darbi’s requests for possible exculpatory evidence that might aid his habeas petition.
Justice task force recommends about 50 Guantanamo detainees be held indefinitely
Peter Finn/Washington Post
A Justice Department-led task force has concluded that nearly 50 of the 196 detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should be held indefinitely without trial under the laws of war, according to Obama administration officials.
The task force’s findings represent the first time that the administration has clarified how many [...]
Guantanamo “Suicides”: The Official Response Begins
Scott Horton/Harper’s
When a cover-up is exposed, nothing is more telling than the first reactions from those who are involved. Do they maintain their stories and face potentially aggravated consequences? Or do they simply remain silent? In making this choice, they often telegraph the depth of their anxiety and concern.
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Haiti
Looks like I spoke too soon the other day when I said a bunch of bloggers saved the Haitian internet. What it looks like is, we only kept it on life support for a week.Reynold Guerrier, the lone network engineer left to operate the country’s internet NAP (network access point), yesterday emailed U.S. military and [...]
Posted in Europe, Latin America, Money, North America, Prison Industrial Complex, Shorter Question Everything, Weapons Also tagged Canada, Haiti, Poland, Russia, US, Venezuela Leave a comment
Why Veterans Are Descending on DC to Close Gitmo
Jon Soltz / OpEdNews / HuffPo
Among the tragic news in Haiti, and the expected dissection of the Senate race in Massachusetts this week, there’s another story going on that likely will not get as much coverage, but is still extremely important. Dozens of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans from VoteVets.org are flying into Washington, DC to [...]
Four US soldiers cast doubt on Gitmo ’suicides’
Daniel Tencer/Rawstory
Four members of a US military intelligence unit assigned to Guantanamo Bay are questioning the government’s official version of the deaths of three detainees in the summer of 2006.
The soldiers are offering a very different version of events than the one provided by the official report carried out by the Naval Criminal Investigation Service. [...]
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British court acknowledges CIA tortured terror suspect if held under British law