Post by They would stand on the Quran on Jul 2, 2005 17:33:53 GMT -5
"Our interrogators would stand on the Quran and they would ask, 'Call your God and ask him to rescue you.' They would throw Quran in a bucket of urine. They would tear the Quran and throw it at our faces."
(Hafiz Ahsan, Pakistani releasee from Guantanamo)
WHY?
'Why?' is Cageprisoners & Stop Political Terror's latest flash movie about the British residents forgotten and abandoned in the tortuous conditions of Guantanamo Bay by the British government. Click here to download.
Interviews
Released Prisoner Confirms Allegations of Qur’an Desecration at Guantánamo Bay
In 2001, Moazzam Begg moved his wife and children from Birmingham to Kabul to begin a new job as a school teacher. After the war in Afghanistan that year, the family decided to wait out the hostilities in neighbouring Pakistan. But in February 2 2002, Begg was seized by the CIA in Islamabad. He was held at Bagram airbase for a year before being transferred to the Guantánamo Bay prison camp in Cuba. In a candid interview with The Muslim News, Begg speaks of his experience at the base, its effect on his life, and the infamous allegations of Qur’an abuse at the prison camp.
Interview with the Wife of Babar Ahmad
“It is not just the concept of extradition, it is the fact that you can’t trust the Americans – their history speaks for itself.” – Myriam Ahmad wife of Babar Ahmad
Interview with Craig Murray
Craig Murray, former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan, was sacked by the Foreign Office for refusing to keep quiet about human rights abuses in Uzbekistan - a stance which has been terribly vindicated by the recent shocking events in Uzbekistan. He stood as an independent candidate on this issue in Jack Straw's Blackburn constituency. Here he tells The Muslim Weekly something of his experiences.
Events
'Extradition Independence' from US on American Independence Day - 4th July.
04-07-05, 6pm-8pm, Committee Room 11, House of Commons, Westminster
All-Party Panel of Peers and MP's demand Extradition Independence from the US
Civil Liberties at the G8
03-07-05, CAMPACC/SACC
"Reclaim the People's Security - Civil Liberties and the Global SecurityState"
From Behind Bars
Are We Truly Believers?
by Babar Ahmad
Victory and defeat, gains and losses, and successes and setbacks are not decided by money, resources, numbers or skills. Rather, they are decided by the balance of obedience and disobedience of Allah The Exalted. The more we obey Allah, both individually and collectively, the more we hasten His Victory.
Legal Issues
Presumption of Innocence: A Response to The Senate Committee on the Judiciary on the Subject of ‘Detainees’
by Asim Qureshi
The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, after three years of injustice and unlawfulness finally decided to look into the matter of the ‘detainees’ held in Guantanamo Bay and around the world. On the 15th June 2005, the full Senate Committee sat together in order to listen to expert testimonies from various military personnel and academics from around the United States of America. Although efforts by the United States have come somewhat late in the day, one must look to such hearings in the vain hope that they yet may do what is right.
America's Parallel Legal Systems: The PATRIOT Act and Other Dilutions of the Constitution
by Jennifer Van Bergen
Too bad we don’t have a robot friend who can tell us what the dangers to democracy are today. One of those dangers in America is the emergence of parallel legal systems.
The Legal Status of Iraqi and Foreign Combatants Captured by Coalition Armed Forces
by Robert Kogod Goldman
The ongoing hostilities between the US-led coalition and Iraq are a classic example of an international armed conflict, as defined in Common Article 2 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions.
Downloads
Interview with Jonathan H. Marks: Physician Involvement in Military Interrogation
Mr. Marks is a barrister at Matrix Chambers, London, and Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics at Georgetown University Law Center and the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Rachel Gotbaum, the interviewer, is an independent producer based in Boston. Supplement to Bloche MG and Marks JH. Doctors and Interrogators at Guantanamo Bay. N Engl J Med 2005:353(1);6-8.
CKUT Interviews Sophie Harkat
CKUT interviews with of Canada Secret Trial Five detainee Mohammed Harakat.
Internment of British Nationals
Michael Mansfield QC
Articles
Witness To Abuse: Human Rights Abuses under the Material Witness Law Since September 11
by Human Rights Watch & ACLU
Operating behind a wall of secrecy, the U.S. Department of Justice thrust scores of Muslim men living in the United States into a Kafkaesque world of indefinite detention without charge and baseless accusations of terrorist links, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union said in a report released today
Doctors and Interrogators at Guantanamo Bay
by M. Gregg Bloche, M.D., J.D., and Jonathan H. Marks, M.A., B.C.L
Mounting evidence from many sources, including Pentagon documents, indicates that military interrogators at Guantanamo Bay have used aggressive counter-resistance measures in systematic fashion to pressure detainees to cooperate. To what extent did interrogators draw on detainees’ health information in designing and pursuing such approaches?
Pack Your Bags, We’re Going on Holiday
by Asim Qureshi
Being someone who likes to travel, I want to experience something new. So the question remains, what should the destination be? I know, how about that exotic location? What was its name again? Oh yes…Guantanamo Bay.
On the Pleasure of Hating
by Asim Qureshi
There is no pleasure in hate, only death and the ruin of man.
Two Australian “Terrorist” Trials Set Dangerous Precedents
by Mike Head
In separate decisions, both handed down on June 10, two Muslim men were committed for trial in Sydney on “terrorist”-related charges in circumstances that underscore how the so-called “war on terrorism” is being exploited to set far-reaching legal and anti-democratic precedents
Letter to Tony Blair: Empty Promises Can't Protect People From Torture
by Human Rights Watch & Liberty
Human Rights Watch and Liberty are deeply concerned about the British government’s stated intention to seek diplomatic assurances against torture in order to deport terrorism suspects to their home countries or to third countries where they would be at risk of torture and other ill-treatment.
In the Name of Security
by Tony Benn
Since the attack on the twin towers, in which many innocent Americans were killed, we have been told that we are engaged in a war against terrorism that threatens our way of life and our liberties. From that moment on we have been asked to adopt a whole range of measures that pose what many believe could be a greater threat to those very liberties and to our way of life.
[More Articles at Cageprisoners.com]
News
GUANTANAMO
Pakistanis Allege Quran Desecrated at Guantánamo
Russian Freed From Guantanamo Tells of Quran Abuse
Senators Laud Treatment of Detainees in Guantánamo
APA Statement on Psychiatric Practices at Guantanamo Bay
Rumsfeld Rejects Outside Panel on Gitmo
Lawmakers Renew Call to Close Guantanamo After Fresh Tour
Jazeera Cameraman Tortured at Guantanamo Jail
Lawyers: Detainees' Cases Stalled in the Legal System
40 Pakistani Parties Want US Notorious Prisons Shut
Doctors Help Guantanamo Interrogators, Khadr Says
US Acknowledges Torture at Guantanamo, Iraq, Afghanistan - UN
Cheney Says Guantanamo Prisoners Well Fed, "Living In Tropics"
Interrogators Cite Doctors' Aid at Guantánamo
Yemen Holding Four Guantanamo Detainees, Lawyer Says
UN: 'Credible Reports of Torture' From Guantanamo
Hicks Health Failing, Father Says
Guantanamo Case Ruling on June 29th
7 of 10 Say Gitmo Treatment Fair
Sen. Durbin Apologizes for Gitmo Remarks
GHOST
US Suspected of Keeping Secret Prisoners on Warships: UN Official
Italians Hunt Covert CIA Snatch Squad
Tauscher Satisfied With Gitmo Conditions, Fears Rendition of Suspects
MISCELLANEOUS
Pakistan Releases 45 Prisoners Repatriated From Afghanistan
US Accused Over Muslim Detentions
Trial Date Set For Jack Thomas
Mombasa Bombing Suspects Cleared
U.S. Military to Expand Prisons in Iraq
Khan Urges Amendment To Extradition Act 2003
Moroccan Freed in 9/11 Case Home
[More News on the War on Terror at Cageprisoners.com]
(Hafiz Ahsan, Pakistani releasee from Guantanamo)
WHY?
'Why?' is Cageprisoners & Stop Political Terror's latest flash movie about the British residents forgotten and abandoned in the tortuous conditions of Guantanamo Bay by the British government. Click here to download.
Interviews
Released Prisoner Confirms Allegations of Qur’an Desecration at Guantánamo Bay
In 2001, Moazzam Begg moved his wife and children from Birmingham to Kabul to begin a new job as a school teacher. After the war in Afghanistan that year, the family decided to wait out the hostilities in neighbouring Pakistan. But in February 2 2002, Begg was seized by the CIA in Islamabad. He was held at Bagram airbase for a year before being transferred to the Guantánamo Bay prison camp in Cuba. In a candid interview with The Muslim News, Begg speaks of his experience at the base, its effect on his life, and the infamous allegations of Qur’an abuse at the prison camp.
Interview with the Wife of Babar Ahmad
“It is not just the concept of extradition, it is the fact that you can’t trust the Americans – their history speaks for itself.” – Myriam Ahmad wife of Babar Ahmad
Interview with Craig Murray
Craig Murray, former UK Ambassador to Uzbekistan, was sacked by the Foreign Office for refusing to keep quiet about human rights abuses in Uzbekistan - a stance which has been terribly vindicated by the recent shocking events in Uzbekistan. He stood as an independent candidate on this issue in Jack Straw's Blackburn constituency. Here he tells The Muslim Weekly something of his experiences.
Events
'Extradition Independence' from US on American Independence Day - 4th July.
04-07-05, 6pm-8pm, Committee Room 11, House of Commons, Westminster
All-Party Panel of Peers and MP's demand Extradition Independence from the US
Civil Liberties at the G8
03-07-05, CAMPACC/SACC
"Reclaim the People's Security - Civil Liberties and the Global SecurityState"
From Behind Bars
Are We Truly Believers?
by Babar Ahmad
Victory and defeat, gains and losses, and successes and setbacks are not decided by money, resources, numbers or skills. Rather, they are decided by the balance of obedience and disobedience of Allah The Exalted. The more we obey Allah, both individually and collectively, the more we hasten His Victory.
Legal Issues
Presumption of Innocence: A Response to The Senate Committee on the Judiciary on the Subject of ‘Detainees’
by Asim Qureshi
The United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, after three years of injustice and unlawfulness finally decided to look into the matter of the ‘detainees’ held in Guantanamo Bay and around the world. On the 15th June 2005, the full Senate Committee sat together in order to listen to expert testimonies from various military personnel and academics from around the United States of America. Although efforts by the United States have come somewhat late in the day, one must look to such hearings in the vain hope that they yet may do what is right.
America's Parallel Legal Systems: The PATRIOT Act and Other Dilutions of the Constitution
by Jennifer Van Bergen
Too bad we don’t have a robot friend who can tell us what the dangers to democracy are today. One of those dangers in America is the emergence of parallel legal systems.
The Legal Status of Iraqi and Foreign Combatants Captured by Coalition Armed Forces
by Robert Kogod Goldman
The ongoing hostilities between the US-led coalition and Iraq are a classic example of an international armed conflict, as defined in Common Article 2 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions.
Downloads
Interview with Jonathan H. Marks: Physician Involvement in Military Interrogation
Mr. Marks is a barrister at Matrix Chambers, London, and Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics at Georgetown University Law Center and the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Rachel Gotbaum, the interviewer, is an independent producer based in Boston. Supplement to Bloche MG and Marks JH. Doctors and Interrogators at Guantanamo Bay. N Engl J Med 2005:353(1);6-8.
CKUT Interviews Sophie Harkat
CKUT interviews with of Canada Secret Trial Five detainee Mohammed Harakat.
Internment of British Nationals
Michael Mansfield QC
Articles
Witness To Abuse: Human Rights Abuses under the Material Witness Law Since September 11
by Human Rights Watch & ACLU
Operating behind a wall of secrecy, the U.S. Department of Justice thrust scores of Muslim men living in the United States into a Kafkaesque world of indefinite detention without charge and baseless accusations of terrorist links, Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union said in a report released today
Doctors and Interrogators at Guantanamo Bay
by M. Gregg Bloche, M.D., J.D., and Jonathan H. Marks, M.A., B.C.L
Mounting evidence from many sources, including Pentagon documents, indicates that military interrogators at Guantanamo Bay have used aggressive counter-resistance measures in systematic fashion to pressure detainees to cooperate. To what extent did interrogators draw on detainees’ health information in designing and pursuing such approaches?
Pack Your Bags, We’re Going on Holiday
by Asim Qureshi
Being someone who likes to travel, I want to experience something new. So the question remains, what should the destination be? I know, how about that exotic location? What was its name again? Oh yes…Guantanamo Bay.
On the Pleasure of Hating
by Asim Qureshi
There is no pleasure in hate, only death and the ruin of man.
Two Australian “Terrorist” Trials Set Dangerous Precedents
by Mike Head
In separate decisions, both handed down on June 10, two Muslim men were committed for trial in Sydney on “terrorist”-related charges in circumstances that underscore how the so-called “war on terrorism” is being exploited to set far-reaching legal and anti-democratic precedents
Letter to Tony Blair: Empty Promises Can't Protect People From Torture
by Human Rights Watch & Liberty
Human Rights Watch and Liberty are deeply concerned about the British government’s stated intention to seek diplomatic assurances against torture in order to deport terrorism suspects to their home countries or to third countries where they would be at risk of torture and other ill-treatment.
In the Name of Security
by Tony Benn
Since the attack on the twin towers, in which many innocent Americans were killed, we have been told that we are engaged in a war against terrorism that threatens our way of life and our liberties. From that moment on we have been asked to adopt a whole range of measures that pose what many believe could be a greater threat to those very liberties and to our way of life.
[More Articles at Cageprisoners.com]
News
GUANTANAMO
Pakistanis Allege Quran Desecrated at Guantánamo
Russian Freed From Guantanamo Tells of Quran Abuse
Senators Laud Treatment of Detainees in Guantánamo
APA Statement on Psychiatric Practices at Guantanamo Bay
Rumsfeld Rejects Outside Panel on Gitmo
Lawmakers Renew Call to Close Guantanamo After Fresh Tour
Jazeera Cameraman Tortured at Guantanamo Jail
Lawyers: Detainees' Cases Stalled in the Legal System
40 Pakistani Parties Want US Notorious Prisons Shut
Doctors Help Guantanamo Interrogators, Khadr Says
US Acknowledges Torture at Guantanamo, Iraq, Afghanistan - UN
Cheney Says Guantanamo Prisoners Well Fed, "Living In Tropics"
Interrogators Cite Doctors' Aid at Guantánamo
Yemen Holding Four Guantanamo Detainees, Lawyer Says
UN: 'Credible Reports of Torture' From Guantanamo
Hicks Health Failing, Father Says
Guantanamo Case Ruling on June 29th
7 of 10 Say Gitmo Treatment Fair
Sen. Durbin Apologizes for Gitmo Remarks
GHOST
US Suspected of Keeping Secret Prisoners on Warships: UN Official
Italians Hunt Covert CIA Snatch Squad
Tauscher Satisfied With Gitmo Conditions, Fears Rendition of Suspects
MISCELLANEOUS
Pakistan Releases 45 Prisoners Repatriated From Afghanistan
US Accused Over Muslim Detentions
Trial Date Set For Jack Thomas
Mombasa Bombing Suspects Cleared
U.S. Military to Expand Prisons in Iraq
Khan Urges Amendment To Extradition Act 2003
Moroccan Freed in 9/11 Case Home
[More News on the War on Terror at Cageprisoners.com]