Post by Cageprisoners on Oct 20, 2005 13:44:35 GMT -5
"The US claims to be the land of democracy. Everything I experienced assures me they know nothing of humanity and decency."
(Sami al-Laithi, former Guantanamo detainee)
Interview with Joshua Colangelo-Bryan
"He was made to walk barefoot over barbed wire and his head was pushed to the ground on broken glass..."
Joshua Colangelo-Bryan has been instrumental in representing the interests of the Bahraini nationals still locked up in Guantanamo Bay. He is part of a team that have been working on behalf of those detained from the New York-based law firm, Dorsey and Whitney. The manifest abuses taking place against the detainees on a daily basis and the complete legal vacuum have resulted in his willingness to make sure that these people are treated humanely and given full access to legal recourse. Cageprisoners spoke to him about the current hunger strike and the largely ignored plight of the Bahrainis in Guantanamo. [More...]
Cageprisoners' Report on Status of British Residents Held in Guantanamo Bay & the Obligation on the British Government To Provide Them Diplomatic Support
by Asim Qureshi
The legal penumbra that is Guantanamo Bay provides a difficult situation for Bisher al-Rawi, Jamil El-Banna, Shaker Aamer, Jamal Abdullah, Ahmed Errachidi, Benyamin Mohammed, Omar Deghayes and two others. They are all British residents in the United Kingdom who have lived their lives here peacefully for many years as refugees. After having escaped their home countries which tortured and abused them, they came to the UK in order to find protection and safety.
The nine men are now in a legal black hole as they have no one to make any representations on their behalf. Their countries of origin are the very places they fled in order to find security, while the country they fled to refuse to provide them with the protection that they deserve under the law of international human rights.
The following report aims to highlight to the government its duties and obligations under international refugee and humanitarian law to make representations on behalf of the nine British residents. If the government does not act, it will have condemned those men to the very fate that they came to the UK to escape from.
[More...]
Download the report in pdf format
Events
Join a Vigil to End Canadian Deportations to Torture
The Canadian government will no doubt mark United Nations Day with pious statements of respect for the world body. Yet the Canadian government continues to defy the United Nations, which called on Canada in May, 2005 to respect the absolute prohibition against deportation to torture. In a ministerial decision handed down in late September, 2005, a delegate of the Deportation Minister concluded that Mahmoud Jaballah, one of the Secret Trial Five, should be deported to Egypt despite the threat of torture or death.
Demo: Appalled and Angered by New Anti Terror Laws
22-10-05, Parliament House, Australia
14-day detention, control orders, electronic bracelets -all without being charged!
Measuring Security Measures: Short Films on Immigration, Media, Law and Policy in a 'Secure' Canada
Concerned about secret trials in Canada? Worried about the growing trend of repression against immigrants and refugees? Wondering why the media fails to present decent coverage of these issues? Join us Tuesday, October 18, at 7:30 pm at the Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto, for a series of short films followed by a dynamic panel discussion on these issues
Campaigns
Stop the Terrorism Bill - Online Petition
The petition is a condensed version of this statement, updated to take account of the government's publication of the Terrorism Bill on 12 October 2005
Legal Issues
Human Rights in the Balance: What's at Stake in Hamdan
This week the United States Supreme Court stands on the verge of a momentous non-decision - a non-decision that would quietly deal a major setback to international human rights, and place the United States at odds with our allies on a crucial issue of how to interpret human rights treaties.
Stop Punting
The Supreme Court keeps putting off Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. It's time to take it on.
Why the Court Should Hear Hamdan
Tomorrow morning, the Justices of the Supreme Court will meet to select new cases for review. One case on their list, Hamdan v. Bush, has far-reaching implications for our system of checks and balances and the well-being of American soldiers around the world.
Islamic Focus
A Time To Give
by Asiya Mahmood
Ramadan is a month for giving. As a way of becoming closer to Allah, we give more of our wealth in charity and more of our time to help others.
Articles
Deep Wounds
by Reem Nafie
Sami El-Leithi spent nearly four years at the notorious US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay. Back in Egypt, he tells his horrifying tale.
These Two Men Are Experts on Rendition: One Invented It, The Other Has Seen Its Full Horrors
by Neil Mackay
If there are two men in the world who know about “extraordinary renditions” then they are Michael Scheuer, the CIA chief who invented the programme, and Craig Murray, the UK ambassador to Uzbekistan who saw first-hand the devastating consequences for British intelligence of using renditions.
Chaplain James Yee-The Dreyfus Affair Revisited
by Dr. Adnan Siddiqui
The war on terror is not a war on Islam claim the warmongers.What is not in doubt is that this war is being prosecuted in Muslim countries and its principal victims are Muslims.
Torture Flights: The Inside Story
by Neil Mackay
They could be walking the streets of Sweden, Italy, Albania, Indonesia or Pakistan. They are kidnapped in broad daylight, hooded, drugged, shackled and placed on a jet operated by the CIA. When they wake they find themselves in a country such as Morocco, Egypt or Uzbekistan – where torture is the currency of the interrogation room.
One Victim's Story
by Neil Mackay
On each stage of his journey, as he descended further and further into the gulags and torture chambers of the war on terror, Benyam Mohammed al-Habashi was shadowed by British intelligence.
Gruesome Stories From Guantanamo
by Greg Hanneman
Attorney Brent Mickum discusses his observations and work for U.S. prisoners
[More Articles at Cageprisoners.com]
News
GUANTANAMO
Saudi Guantamano Inmates May Be Freed Soon
One of Six Bahraini Detainees in Guantanamo Seriously Ill
3 Suspects Say They Were Tortured
Guantanamo Medics Accused of Abusive Force-Feeding
Guantanamo Lawyers Demand Access
10 Saudi Guantanamo Detainees to Sue Bush
UK
UK Signs Libya Deportation Deal on Terror Suspects
UK Wins Allies in Challenge To Torture Ruling
Law Lords Consider 'Torture' Appeal
Judges 'Could Get Detention Veto'
Britain Sued For ‘Complicity’ in Torture
Police Free Five Terror Suspects
Ramda Fights Extradition
Russia Accuses Birmingham Charity of Aiding Terror
'Terror Group' Ban Agreed By MPs
Terror Alert Trainee Pilot Jailed
MISCELLANEOUS
U.S. Hopes To Return Militant Hambali To Indonesia
Charity Official Gets Prison Time Despite Helping Authorities
Qaeda Suspect Had Marks on Back, FBI Doctor Says
Amnesty To Challenge Security Certificates in UN Committee
Al-Qaeda 'Barber' Seized in Iraq
Dutch Court Blocks Egyptian's Extradition To US
[More News on the War on Terror at Cageprisoners.com]
(Sami al-Laithi, former Guantanamo detainee)
Interview with Joshua Colangelo-Bryan
"He was made to walk barefoot over barbed wire and his head was pushed to the ground on broken glass..."
Joshua Colangelo-Bryan has been instrumental in representing the interests of the Bahraini nationals still locked up in Guantanamo Bay. He is part of a team that have been working on behalf of those detained from the New York-based law firm, Dorsey and Whitney. The manifest abuses taking place against the detainees on a daily basis and the complete legal vacuum have resulted in his willingness to make sure that these people are treated humanely and given full access to legal recourse. Cageprisoners spoke to him about the current hunger strike and the largely ignored plight of the Bahrainis in Guantanamo. [More...]
Cageprisoners' Report on Status of British Residents Held in Guantanamo Bay & the Obligation on the British Government To Provide Them Diplomatic Support
by Asim Qureshi
The legal penumbra that is Guantanamo Bay provides a difficult situation for Bisher al-Rawi, Jamil El-Banna, Shaker Aamer, Jamal Abdullah, Ahmed Errachidi, Benyamin Mohammed, Omar Deghayes and two others. They are all British residents in the United Kingdom who have lived their lives here peacefully for many years as refugees. After having escaped their home countries which tortured and abused them, they came to the UK in order to find protection and safety.
The nine men are now in a legal black hole as they have no one to make any representations on their behalf. Their countries of origin are the very places they fled in order to find security, while the country they fled to refuse to provide them with the protection that they deserve under the law of international human rights.
The following report aims to highlight to the government its duties and obligations under international refugee and humanitarian law to make representations on behalf of the nine British residents. If the government does not act, it will have condemned those men to the very fate that they came to the UK to escape from.
[More...]
Download the report in pdf format
Events
Join a Vigil to End Canadian Deportations to Torture
The Canadian government will no doubt mark United Nations Day with pious statements of respect for the world body. Yet the Canadian government continues to defy the United Nations, which called on Canada in May, 2005 to respect the absolute prohibition against deportation to torture. In a ministerial decision handed down in late September, 2005, a delegate of the Deportation Minister concluded that Mahmoud Jaballah, one of the Secret Trial Five, should be deported to Egypt despite the threat of torture or death.
Demo: Appalled and Angered by New Anti Terror Laws
22-10-05, Parliament House, Australia
14-day detention, control orders, electronic bracelets -all without being charged!
Measuring Security Measures: Short Films on Immigration, Media, Law and Policy in a 'Secure' Canada
Concerned about secret trials in Canada? Worried about the growing trend of repression against immigrants and refugees? Wondering why the media fails to present decent coverage of these issues? Join us Tuesday, October 18, at 7:30 pm at the Innis Town Hall, University of Toronto, for a series of short films followed by a dynamic panel discussion on these issues
Campaigns
Stop the Terrorism Bill - Online Petition
The petition is a condensed version of this statement, updated to take account of the government's publication of the Terrorism Bill on 12 October 2005
Legal Issues
Human Rights in the Balance: What's at Stake in Hamdan
This week the United States Supreme Court stands on the verge of a momentous non-decision - a non-decision that would quietly deal a major setback to international human rights, and place the United States at odds with our allies on a crucial issue of how to interpret human rights treaties.
Stop Punting
The Supreme Court keeps putting off Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. It's time to take it on.
Why the Court Should Hear Hamdan
Tomorrow morning, the Justices of the Supreme Court will meet to select new cases for review. One case on their list, Hamdan v. Bush, has far-reaching implications for our system of checks and balances and the well-being of American soldiers around the world.
Islamic Focus
A Time To Give
by Asiya Mahmood
Ramadan is a month for giving. As a way of becoming closer to Allah, we give more of our wealth in charity and more of our time to help others.
Articles
Deep Wounds
by Reem Nafie
Sami El-Leithi spent nearly four years at the notorious US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay. Back in Egypt, he tells his horrifying tale.
These Two Men Are Experts on Rendition: One Invented It, The Other Has Seen Its Full Horrors
by Neil Mackay
If there are two men in the world who know about “extraordinary renditions” then they are Michael Scheuer, the CIA chief who invented the programme, and Craig Murray, the UK ambassador to Uzbekistan who saw first-hand the devastating consequences for British intelligence of using renditions.
Chaplain James Yee-The Dreyfus Affair Revisited
by Dr. Adnan Siddiqui
The war on terror is not a war on Islam claim the warmongers.What is not in doubt is that this war is being prosecuted in Muslim countries and its principal victims are Muslims.
Torture Flights: The Inside Story
by Neil Mackay
They could be walking the streets of Sweden, Italy, Albania, Indonesia or Pakistan. They are kidnapped in broad daylight, hooded, drugged, shackled and placed on a jet operated by the CIA. When they wake they find themselves in a country such as Morocco, Egypt or Uzbekistan – where torture is the currency of the interrogation room.
One Victim's Story
by Neil Mackay
On each stage of his journey, as he descended further and further into the gulags and torture chambers of the war on terror, Benyam Mohammed al-Habashi was shadowed by British intelligence.
Gruesome Stories From Guantanamo
by Greg Hanneman
Attorney Brent Mickum discusses his observations and work for U.S. prisoners
[More Articles at Cageprisoners.com]
News
GUANTANAMO
Saudi Guantamano Inmates May Be Freed Soon
One of Six Bahraini Detainees in Guantanamo Seriously Ill
3 Suspects Say They Were Tortured
Guantanamo Medics Accused of Abusive Force-Feeding
Guantanamo Lawyers Demand Access
10 Saudi Guantanamo Detainees to Sue Bush
UK
UK Signs Libya Deportation Deal on Terror Suspects
UK Wins Allies in Challenge To Torture Ruling
Law Lords Consider 'Torture' Appeal
Judges 'Could Get Detention Veto'
Britain Sued For ‘Complicity’ in Torture
Police Free Five Terror Suspects
Ramda Fights Extradition
Russia Accuses Birmingham Charity of Aiding Terror
'Terror Group' Ban Agreed By MPs
Terror Alert Trainee Pilot Jailed
MISCELLANEOUS
U.S. Hopes To Return Militant Hambali To Indonesia
Charity Official Gets Prison Time Despite Helping Authorities
Qaeda Suspect Had Marks on Back, FBI Doctor Says
Amnesty To Challenge Security Certificates in UN Committee
Al-Qaeda 'Barber' Seized in Iraq
Dutch Court Blocks Egyptian's Extradition To US
[More News on the War on Terror at Cageprisoners.com]