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UN report alleges US torture at Guantanamo
Five United Nations rights experts have concluded that detainees being held at the US prison base in Guantanamo Bay have been subjected to physical and mental abuse amounting to torture in some cases, according to an unreleased draft report obtain (More) |
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German authorities negotiating for release of Guantanamo detainee
German officials are in talks with their US counterparts for the release of a German-born man who has been held in Guantanamo Bay for almost four years. Murat Kurnaz [Amnesty International case sheet; chronology, PDF], a Turkish national, was detai (More) |
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Drastic force-feeding measures push Gitmo hunger strike to lowest point
The number of detainees still on hunger strike at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay has dropped to four, military officials said Wednesday. The head military spokesman at Guantanamo also said that prison officials have been using tougher fo (More) |
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Abu Ghraib dogs to be focus of Senate probe
The US Senate Committee on Armed Services will investigate conflicting reports about the use of dogs in abusing detainees at the US military prison of Abu Ghraib . Chairman Sen. John Warner (R-VA) said that the committee will look into disparate s (More) |
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US charges Canadian Khadr brother with supplying weapons to al Qaeda
A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted [text; US Attorney press release] Canadian citizen Abdullah Ahmed Khadr [Wikipedia profile; CBC family backgrounder] on four counts connected to his alleged procurement of destructive devices to be used agains (More) |
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Guantanamo detainees report [Seton Hall Law School]
The Guantanamo Detainees: The Government's Story, Professor Mark Denbeaux et al., Seton Hall Law School, February 7, 2006 . Excerpt:This Report is the first effort to provide a more detailed picture of who the Guantanamo detainees are, how they e (More) |
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Lawyers say most Guantanamo detainees not alleged to be terrorists
Lawyers for two detainees being held at the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay say that over half of the terror suspects being held there are not alleged to have committed terrorist acts against the US or its allies or even to be members of terror (More) |
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Torture and the scope of employment
Steve Vladeck : "Is torture or other forms of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment (CIDT) within the scope of government employment? At least somewhat surprisingly, according to this decision by Judge Urbina in the D.C. district court issued y (More) |
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Muhammad cartoons protesters storm Norway camp in Afghanistan; four killed
Several hundred Afghan protestors demonstrating against the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad in Danish, Norwegian and other European papers stormed a NATO ISAF peacekeeping base near Maymana in northwest Afghanistan manned by N (More) |
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Guantanamo detentions impact report [AI]
Guantanamo: Lives torn apart — The impact of indefinite detention on detainees and their families, Amnesty International, February 6, 2006 . Excerpt: In this document, Amnesty International relates the continuing plight of the detainees, and su (More) |
Reign of Terror begins in French Revolution
On April 6, 1793, the Committee of Public Safety takes power as the executive agency of France during the French Revolution, starting the Reign of Terror. During this period, the Committee sought to eliminate "enemies of the Revolution" by summary trials of noblemen, clergy, merchants, and peasants alike. The Reign of Terror ended with the overthrow the Committee's last and most prominent member, Maximilien Robespierre. By this time, 20,000 to 40,000 Frenchman and women had been executed by guillotine.
Learn more about the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.
