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EMERGENCY
RESTRAINT CHAIR, E.R.C. Inc.
Posted: 17 Oct 2008 10:05 PM CDT
Guess
what this is used for? Many of you already know. Sami al-Haj
certainly knows. This is a torture device. Make no bones about it.
This is the restraint chair used for force-feeding detainees on hunger
strike.
In the past detainees had feeding tubes inserted and they stayed
there. The detainee would then be fed liquid [...] ![]() |
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Senators’
statements shock Dr Aafia’s family
Posted: 17 Oct 2008 06:50 PM CDT
Fouzia
asks ‘how could a person be happy after years of torture?’
ISLAMABAD: Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s sister Dr Fouzia Siddiqui on Friday
expressed shock over Pakistani senators (who visited Aafia) statements
that she was “quite happy” in US custody.
Fouzia was addressing a press conference arranged by Defence of Human
Rights (HDR) at Rawalpindi Islamabad Press Club [...] ![]() |
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Words: New Court Filing Suggests Another Manufactured Threat in Bush’s
2002 State of the Union
Posted: 17 Oct 2008 06:39 PM CDT
A
potentially explosive new court filing by the lawyers for Lakhdar
Boumediene and five other Guantanamo detainees suggests that the Bush
administration ordered the Bosnian government to arrest and hold the
men after an exhaustive Bosnian investigation had found them innocent
of any terrorism related activity and had ordered their release, in
order to use [...] ![]() |
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NY
BigLaw Teams Win Release of Guantánamo Detainees
Posted: 17 Oct 2008 06:15 PM CDT
New
York Lawyer
By Thomas Adcock
New York Law Journal
After years of litigation against the Bush administration, attorneys
from two large Manhattan firms have won release of their ethnic Chinese
clients from custody at the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba, where
they had been detained by U.S. military authorities as enemy
combatants.
On Oct. 7, Judge Ricardo [...] ![]() |
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Camp
Bucca: Iraq’s Guantanamo
Posted: 17 Oct 2008 06:12 PM CDT
By
David Enders, The Nation.
What will the United States do with the thousands of Iraqis it is
holding in legal limbo?
It may seem hard to imagine a place where people incarcerated by the
U.S. military have fewer rights than they do in Guantanamo Bay.
Welcome to Iraq.
It is just after 4 a.m., and hundreds of [...] ![]() |
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Demo
for Aafia’s release
Posted: 17 Oct 2008 06:05 PM CDT
ISLAMABAD:
Rulers are inviting God’s wrath by showing apathy in Dr Aafia Siddique
case.
This was said by the speakers while addressing a protest rally held
here Friday outside Islamabad press club against detention of Dr Aafia
Siddiqui. The demonstration was organized by chairperson of Defence
Human Rights Aamna Masood Janjua.
Addressing the rally Dr Fauzia Siddiqui, [...] ![]() |
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At
Guantanamo Bay, Mohammed Jawad’s Life Hangs in the Balance
Posted: 17 Oct 2008 04:38 PM CDT
by
Sarah Amandolare
A military prosecutor who resigned from his position at Guantanamo Bay
last month has now accused Pentagon prosecutors of ethical misconduct
in the case of Mohammed Jawad.
According to the Daily Telegraph, Army reservist Lieutenant Colonel
Darrel Vandeveld contacted both a Jesuit priest and Jawad’s defense
attorney for advice before resigning from his position [...] ![]() |
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Moazzam
Begg: The Way Out
Posted: 17 Oct 2008 04:28 PM CDT
by
Moazzam Begg
It’s almost seven years since the notorious images depicting kneeling
Muslim men attired in the signature orange clothing of Camp X-Ray,
Guantanamo Bay, were unleashed through the world’s media. Their eyes
covered with blackened-out goggles, their mouths masked and their ears
covered with earmuffs. They saw no evil, spoke no evil and heard [...] ![]() |
