Post by Cageprisonerscom on Aug 11, 2005 6:40:10 GMT -5
"I feel that my future has been destroyed. A person does not even know what to say to their kids now. That’s a really big thing."
(Mohammad Nechle, seized by US agents in Bosnia, currently detained in Guantanamo Bay)
Martin Mubanga - Life in Guantanamo
Ex-detainee, Martin Mubanga presents a poignant account of life in Guantanamo, recorded at the Froud Centre, London, in June 2005.
Click here to download the video.
Interviews
Kathy Bowlen Interviews Rob Stary, Lawyer To Jack Thomas
Jack Thomas has been charged with three offences; providing support to a banned organisation, receiving resources from a banned organisation and travelling on a false visa. Now, all those offences are said to have occurred in Pakistan, ostensibly against Pakistani interest and not against any Australian individual or Australian law.
Campaigns
Petition: Banning Non Violent HT is the Real Threat to the British Way of Life
We are all under threat, HT are not being banned for being a bunch of young upstarts, or for carrying the wrong Islamic opinion, they are being banned because of the non-violent political opinions they hold, who is to say you won't be next for your peacful opinions?
Legal Issues
Bush, Torture and Lincoln’s Legacy
by Human Rights Watch
Being the only superpower means never having to say you’re sorry. In the year since the first photos of humiliation and torture at Abu Ghraib prison were leaked, there has been a flurry of Pentagon studies, jump-started criminal investigations and disturbing new revelations in the media. Yet public attention has not translated into sustained public outcry.
Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri, Plaintiff, V Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense of the United States, Commander C.T. Hanft, U.S.N. Commander, Consolidated Naval Brig
A lawsuit filed today against U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld reveals the gratuitous cruelty inflicted on a foreign student held without charges for more than two years as an “enemy combatant” in a South Carolina naval brig.
Downloads
Dubai Arrest - Channel 4 News
Video about the case of two Britons detained and tortured in Dubai, following the July London bombs.
Young Muslims and Extremism
Report on young Muslims and extremism, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office/Home Office, April 2004.
Articles
Abuse Cases Open Command Issues at Army Prison
by Tim Golden
In a small courtroom at this vast Army training base, military prosecutors have been moving briskly to dispense with the cases they have filed in the brutal deaths in 2002 of two Afghan prisoners at the American military detention center in Bagram, Afghanistan.
Cruel Confinement of ‘Enemy Combatant’ in United States
by Human Rights Watch
A lawsuit filed today against U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld reveals the gratuitous cruelty inflicted on a foreign student held without charges for more than two years as an “enemy combatant” in a South Carolina naval brig, Human Rights Watch said.
You Can’t Fight Terror By Junking Our Rights
by Matt Foot
Criminal defence solicitor Matt Foot spoke to Socialist Worker about the government’s proposed crackdown on the judicial rights of suspects.
Sacrificing the White Bull
by Abu Eesa Niamatullah
You’ve all heard the story before. There was a white bull, a red bull and a black bull – oh and a (hungry) lion too.
Ordeal of a British Muslim
by Tahir Shah
Tahir Shah vanished for two weeks into a torture cell while on a film-making trip to Pakistan
The Price of a Chilling and Counterproductive Recipe
by Shami Chakrabarti
Tony Blair cannot be allowed to sell our rights and freedoms
A Stain on Medical Ethics
by Michael Wilks
The involvement of doctors in torture and the abuse of prisoners' human rights has been well documented over the past few decades. More gravely, both governmental and medical bodies have begun adjusting and blurring their ethical guidance, tilting themselves towards endorsement of gross ethical malpractice, thereby ensuring the continuation of doctors' involvement.
Sword and Scales
by Asim Qureshi
The hypocrisies of this government with its blatant double standards have not gone unnoticed. This is an era when the dichotomy existing between the sword and scales will finally come to a loggerhead.
Our (Human) Rights Define Us
by Jeffrey Jowell QC
When a nation's safety and security are under dire threat, the duty of any government is to do all it can to safeguard the lives and property of its citizens. But in the heat of battle, we must equally be careful not to compromise the cornerstones of our liberties.
Fight Fear with Freedom
by Mary Riddell
Let's all take a deep breath. We should not let rational fears lead us into irrational laws.
[More Articles at Cageprisoners.com]
News
GUANTANAMO
Saudis Release Five Held at Guantanamo
U.S. Holding Talks on Return of Detainees
High Court Asked To Take Guantanamo Case
Hicks Turns 30 in Cuba
Guant?namo Detention Site Is Being Transformed, U.S. Says
US 'Will Return Afghan Prisoners'
UK
Extremists Who Are Deported Will Be Tortured, Warns UN Expert
Bakri To Be Banned From UK
Three-month Terror Detention Plan
Anger Over Plan For Secret Courts
Freed Biochemist Fears For His Life
Labour MPs Attack Blair's 12-point Plan
Pakistan-UK Extradition Deal Near
UK Terror Suspect Charged
Four Bomb Plot Accused Remanded
Deportation Plans Anger Rights Groups
Blair Vows To Root Out Extremism
US
Detainee at Brig in Charleston Accuses His Jailers of Abuse
U.S. Defends Detentions at Airports
[More News on the War on Terror at Cageprisoners.com]
(Mohammad Nechle, seized by US agents in Bosnia, currently detained in Guantanamo Bay)
Martin Mubanga - Life in Guantanamo
Ex-detainee, Martin Mubanga presents a poignant account of life in Guantanamo, recorded at the Froud Centre, London, in June 2005.
Click here to download the video.
Interviews
Kathy Bowlen Interviews Rob Stary, Lawyer To Jack Thomas
Jack Thomas has been charged with three offences; providing support to a banned organisation, receiving resources from a banned organisation and travelling on a false visa. Now, all those offences are said to have occurred in Pakistan, ostensibly against Pakistani interest and not against any Australian individual or Australian law.
Campaigns
Petition: Banning Non Violent HT is the Real Threat to the British Way of Life
We are all under threat, HT are not being banned for being a bunch of young upstarts, or for carrying the wrong Islamic opinion, they are being banned because of the non-violent political opinions they hold, who is to say you won't be next for your peacful opinions?
Legal Issues
Bush, Torture and Lincoln’s Legacy
by Human Rights Watch
Being the only superpower means never having to say you’re sorry. In the year since the first photos of humiliation and torture at Abu Ghraib prison were leaked, there has been a flurry of Pentagon studies, jump-started criminal investigations and disturbing new revelations in the media. Yet public attention has not translated into sustained public outcry.
Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri, Plaintiff, V Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense of the United States, Commander C.T. Hanft, U.S.N. Commander, Consolidated Naval Brig
A lawsuit filed today against U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld reveals the gratuitous cruelty inflicted on a foreign student held without charges for more than two years as an “enemy combatant” in a South Carolina naval brig.
Downloads
Dubai Arrest - Channel 4 News
Video about the case of two Britons detained and tortured in Dubai, following the July London bombs.
Young Muslims and Extremism
Report on young Muslims and extremism, UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office/Home Office, April 2004.
Articles
Abuse Cases Open Command Issues at Army Prison
by Tim Golden
In a small courtroom at this vast Army training base, military prosecutors have been moving briskly to dispense with the cases they have filed in the brutal deaths in 2002 of two Afghan prisoners at the American military detention center in Bagram, Afghanistan.
Cruel Confinement of ‘Enemy Combatant’ in United States
by Human Rights Watch
A lawsuit filed today against U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld reveals the gratuitous cruelty inflicted on a foreign student held without charges for more than two years as an “enemy combatant” in a South Carolina naval brig, Human Rights Watch said.
You Can’t Fight Terror By Junking Our Rights
by Matt Foot
Criminal defence solicitor Matt Foot spoke to Socialist Worker about the government’s proposed crackdown on the judicial rights of suspects.
Sacrificing the White Bull
by Abu Eesa Niamatullah
You’ve all heard the story before. There was a white bull, a red bull and a black bull – oh and a (hungry) lion too.
Ordeal of a British Muslim
by Tahir Shah
Tahir Shah vanished for two weeks into a torture cell while on a film-making trip to Pakistan
The Price of a Chilling and Counterproductive Recipe
by Shami Chakrabarti
Tony Blair cannot be allowed to sell our rights and freedoms
A Stain on Medical Ethics
by Michael Wilks
The involvement of doctors in torture and the abuse of prisoners' human rights has been well documented over the past few decades. More gravely, both governmental and medical bodies have begun adjusting and blurring their ethical guidance, tilting themselves towards endorsement of gross ethical malpractice, thereby ensuring the continuation of doctors' involvement.
Sword and Scales
by Asim Qureshi
The hypocrisies of this government with its blatant double standards have not gone unnoticed. This is an era when the dichotomy existing between the sword and scales will finally come to a loggerhead.
Our (Human) Rights Define Us
by Jeffrey Jowell QC
When a nation's safety and security are under dire threat, the duty of any government is to do all it can to safeguard the lives and property of its citizens. But in the heat of battle, we must equally be careful not to compromise the cornerstones of our liberties.
Fight Fear with Freedom
by Mary Riddell
Let's all take a deep breath. We should not let rational fears lead us into irrational laws.
[More Articles at Cageprisoners.com]
News
GUANTANAMO
Saudis Release Five Held at Guantanamo
U.S. Holding Talks on Return of Detainees
High Court Asked To Take Guantanamo Case
Hicks Turns 30 in Cuba
Guant?namo Detention Site Is Being Transformed, U.S. Says
US 'Will Return Afghan Prisoners'
UK
Extremists Who Are Deported Will Be Tortured, Warns UN Expert
Bakri To Be Banned From UK
Three-month Terror Detention Plan
Anger Over Plan For Secret Courts
Freed Biochemist Fears For His Life
Labour MPs Attack Blair's 12-point Plan
Pakistan-UK Extradition Deal Near
UK Terror Suspect Charged
Four Bomb Plot Accused Remanded
Deportation Plans Anger Rights Groups
Blair Vows To Root Out Extremism
US
Detainee at Brig in Charleston Accuses His Jailers of Abuse
U.S. Defends Detentions at Airports
[More News on the War on Terror at Cageprisoners.com]