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Human Rights Watch cites evidence of US complicity in 'reverse renditions'
A Yemeni businessman was captured in Egypt and was secretly held by US authorities for over a year before being sent to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, according to a report Tuesday from Human Rights Watch . The human rights watchdog group released detai (More) |
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Australia asks US to speed up case against Guantanamo detainee
Australian attorney general Philip Ruddock has asked the US to expedite proceedings against Australian detainee David Hicks , the only Australian still held at Guantanamo Bay. Hicks [Fair Go for David advocacy website] was captured in Afghanistan i (More) |
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DOD considering bolstering rights of detainees
According to military and Bush administration officials, the US Department of Defense is considering substantial changes to the tribunal process [New York Times report] at Guantanamo Bay for foreign terror suspects. The changes, designed in response (More) |
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UK report accusing US of human rights violations [UK Parliament]
Human Rights Annual Report 2004, UK Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee, March 25, 2005 . Excerpt:We conclude that United States personnel appear to have committed grave violations of human rights of persons held in detention in various facilities (More) |
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UK report accuses US of human rights violations in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay
The UK parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee released its annual report on human rights Friday, accusing the US of committing "grave violations of human rights" against prisoners in Guantanamo Bay , Afghanistan and Iraq. The committe (More) |
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French authorities jail former Gitmo prisoner
A French court Friday ordered former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Ridouane Khalid jailed, and former Gitmo detainee Khaled ben Mustafa, who was already in custody, to remain behind bars. Both men were detained at the US military prison since 2002 unti (More) |
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Federal judge extends block on out-of-country transfer of Gitmo detainees
US District Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. has extended a temporary restraining order barring the US from transferring Guantanamo Bay detainees to the custody of foreign countries. Judge Kennedy extended the restraining order for another 10 days Tue (More) |
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Gitmo interrogation strategy questionable, FBI memo says
FBI agents at Guantanamo Bay concluded the military's aggressive interrogation policy yielded intelligence that was "suspect at best," according to a newly released FBI document . The report on Gitmo interrogations comes from an inter (More) |
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Gitmo tapes "as explosive as anything from Abu Ghraib"
A former lawyer for Australian terror suspect David Hicks told a major law conference in Australia Monday that US military videotapes from the terror detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, would be "as explosive as anything from Abu Ghraib" if the (More) |
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NCIS threatened to end Guantanamo participation over detainee abuse
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) threatened to remove itself from Guantanamo Bay interrogations due to the abuse of detainees in late 2002, forcing the Pentagon to review interrogation techniques approved by Defense Secretary Donald (More) |
Maurice Papon convicted of war crimes
On April 2, 1998, Maurice Papon was convicted of war crimes for his role in deporting French Jews to concentration camps during the Nazi occupation of France. Under German occupation, Papon served as the supervisor of the Service for Jewish Questions in Bordeaux from which he collaborated with the Nazi S.S. and oversaw the deportation of 1,560 Jewish men, women, and children to concentration camps.
Read an biography of Maurice Papon from the BBC.
