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FOIA FBI records on treatment of Gitmo prisoners and Koran by US personnel [ACLU]
Log of (and links to) FBI records of interviews with Guantanamo detainees in 2002 and 2003 concerning treatment of prisoners and of the Koran by US personnel . Read the full text of the interview records here. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase her (More) |
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FBI memo shows repeated detainee complaints over Koran mistreatment
In a 2002 FBI document made public Wednesday, an FBI agent wrote that a detainee held at Guantanamo Bay naval base claimed that military jailers flushed the Koran down the toilet, a claim paralleling one made in a recent Newsweek report which was la (More) |
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Report 2005 [Amnesty International]
Report 2005, Amnesty International, May 25, 2005 . Excerpt:During 2004, the human rights of ordinary men, women and children were disregarded or grossly abused in every corner of the globe. Economic interests, political hypocrisy and socially orches (More) |
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Amnesty report accuses US of violating torture ban
Amnesty International Wednesday released its 2005 Report , condemning governments for failing to show principled leadership, betraying promises on human rights, failing to confront their lack of success with fighting terrorism, and persisting with (More) |
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Rights group accuses US of allowing torture of detained citizens in Pakistan
Human Rights Watch accused the US Tuesday of allowing two US citizens of Pakistani descent to be tortured and abused while being held in Pakistan as suspected al Qaeda members. Brothers Kashan and Zain Afzal were detained in Pakistan for eight mon (More) |
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Afghan president wants custody of prisoners after US abuse report
Afghan president Hamid Karzai said Saturday that he wants custody of all Afghan prisoners after being "shocked" by US newspaper reports of prisoner abuse released Friday. The US has over 500 Taliban and other prisoners in Guantanamo Bay (More) |
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Rights group says Newsweek incident overshadowing other Koran abuses
Human Rights Watch warned Wednesday that the outcry over a retracted Newsweek story about religious abuse at Guantanamo is overshadowing genuine incidents where US personnel at the base intentionally offended the religious beliefs of Muslim detain (More) |
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BREAKING NEWS ~ Newsweek officially retracts Gitmo Koran desecration story
AP is reporting that Newsweek magazine has officially retracted its May 9 story that US personnel at Guantanamo had desecrated the Koran. Editors at the magazine began publicly backtracking from the story Sunday night after a source said he could n (More) |
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Gitmo Koran desecration story may have been wrong, say Newsweek editors
After days of deadly anti-US rioting in Afghanistan , protests in other Muslim countries, and condemnations of American actions by civil and judicial leaders around the Muslim world, Newsweek editors have backtracked on their story of Koran abuse b (More) |
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Afghan chief justice wants US apology for any Koran abuse at Guantanamo
As anti-US violence continued for a fourth day in Afghanistan on Saturday, Afghan Chief Justice Fazl Hadi Shinwari called for an American apology and punishment for those responsible if recent allegations [Newsweek article] about desecration of the (More) |
India sues Union Carbide over Bhopal industrial disaster
On April 8, 1985, the government of India filed a lawsuit against the Union Carbide Corporation for the Bhopal industrial disaster in which forty-two tons of methyl isocyanate gas was released from the pesticide plant of a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. The disaster initially killed 2,000 Indians and injured another 200,000. These injuries led to another 16,000 deaths as a result of exposure to the gas. In 1989, the parties reached a $470 million settlement out of court.
Learn more about the Bhopal industrial disaster from the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department of the government of Madhya Pradesh.
