Arrests & Detention
Arrests & Detention Articles
[03/27/2006] Judge \'rejects Guantanamo rights\'
A US Supreme Court justice has been quoted as saying that Guantanamo detainees do not have the right to be tried in civil courts.\n » More
[03/22/2006] Clarke calls for rethink on how terrorists are tried
Charles Clarke, the Home Secretary, called yesterday for a wider debate on whether Britain should abandon the centuries-old adversarial system of justice in terrorism cases.\n » More
[03/21/2006] Jury Finds Abu Ghraib Dog Handler Guilty
A jury found an Army dog handler guilty Tuesday of abusing detainees at Iraq\'s Abu Ghraib prison by terrifying them with a military dog, allegedly for his own amusement.\n » More
[03/17/2006] PM finally calls for Guantanamo to close
Tony Blair joined the growing calls for the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay to be closed after he was questioned about the claims of torture by two British residents held there. » More
[03/14/2006] AP Sues Dept. of Defense for Gitmo Papers
The Associated Press sued the Defense Department on Monday for the release of records identifying all past and current detainees at a U.S. military base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. » More
[03/13/2006] US says in talks to close Guantanamo Bay
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[03/10/2006] Teenage pair face terrorism charges
TWO teenage students were in court today charged in connection with an investigation into suspected terrorist activity overseas. » More
[03/07/2006] Meet the world\'s most dangerous terrorists
The release of the names and backgrounds of the Guantanamo inmates has revealed what we knew all along, the world\'s \"most dangerous terrorists\" are nothing of the sort, they are poor farmers and the like who have simply been grabbed and stuck in cages and publicly tortured for the past four years. » More
[03/06/2006] Details of Camp Delta inmates released to public
The US government has been forced to release documents giving details of those being held at Guantanamo Bay after years of refusing to do so. » More
[02/24/2006] US media drops Abu Ghraib torture issue
Horrifying images of systematic US military abuse of Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib prison were aired last week on Australian television and also published at Salon.com. The images of prisoners, naked, strapped to apparatuses on the floor, hanging upside down, wounded, threatened by snarling dogs, masturbating for their abusers, draped in women’s underwear, forced to sodomize themselves, arranged in the most degrading and painful positions, as well as photographs of dead bodies and blood-smeared cells, have been in the possession of the US military for several years and have been systematically suppressed. » More
[02/24/2006] Judge Orders Pentagon to Release Guantanomo Names to AP
A federal judge ordered the Pentagon on Thursday to release the identities of hundreds of detainees at Guantanamo Bay to The Associated Press, a move which would force the government to break its secrecy and reveal the most comprehensive list yet of those who have been imprisoned there. » More
[02/24/2006] I confessed to escape Guantanamo torture
British student secretly released after more than two years in America\'s notorious Guantanamo Bay terror suspect prison told last night how he had been barred from returning to the UK. » More
[02/24/2006] U.S. Concedes to Force-Feeding Detainees
The military commander responsible for the American detention center at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, confirmed Tuesday that officials there last month turned to more aggressive methods to deter prisoners who were carrying out long-term hunger strikes to protest their incarceration. » More
[02/23/2006] Horrors of Camp Delta are exposed by British victims
An award-winning film director who reconstructed scenes of torture and abuse at Guantanamo Bay has called for the immediate closure of the US-run camp. » More
[02/23/2006] MoD \'concealing US rendition flights\'
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[02/23/2006] UK terror suspects being held in \'Kafkaesque world\'
The Government\'s record on human rights will be condemned by Amnesty International tomorrow in a searing indictment of the anti-terror laws rushed in by Tony Blair. Amnesty will claim that terrorist suspects find themselves \"effectively persecuted\" and held for years in \"a Kafkaesque world\" on the basis of secret accusations. » More
[02/23/2006] Pressure grows for Guantanamo closure
Ministers have been urged to put more pressure on the US to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp being used to detain terror suspects. » More
[02/23/2006] FBI to Gitmo: Hostile Interrogations Risky
FBI agents repeatedly warned military interrogators at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, that their aggressive methods were legally risky and also likely to be ineffective, according to FBI memos made public Thursday. » More
[02/22/2006] Report probes US custody deaths
This is nothing in comparison to the revelations from the outgoing UN human rights chief who revelaed this week that one thousand a month are being tortured to death in Iraq. » More
[02/20/2006] U.S. rejects U.N. report on detainees
The United States should close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, immediately and end violent treatment that amounts to torture, U.N. human-rights investigators said in a report released Thursday. The White House rejected the report. » More
[02/20/2006] Rumsfeld says U.N. chief \'flat wrong\' to advocate closing Guantanamo prison
The Pentagon will not close its Guantanamo Bay prison for terrorist suspects, despite U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan\'s call to shut it down, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Friday. » More
[02/13/2006] Revealed: the terror prison US is helping build in Morocco
THE United States is helping Morocco to build a new interrogation and detention facility for Al-Qaeda suspects near its capital, Rabat, according to western intelligence sources. » More
[02/13/2006] UN inquiry demands immediate closure of Guantanamo
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[02/09/2006] US straps down Guantanamo hunger strikers: report
U.S. military officials at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, strapped hunger-striking prisoners into restraint chairs for hours to feed them through tubes and isolated them in cold cells, The New York Times said on Thursday.\n » More
[02/09/2006] 50% of Gitmo detainees not accused of hostile acts
A report released Tuesday by lawyers representing two detainees held at the U.S. detention camp in GUANTANAMO Bay, Cuba stated that at least 55% of those BUSH’s admin holds at the facility have not been accused of committing hostile acts against the U.S. or any of its allies. » More
[01/20/2006] U.S. indicts 11 suspected of ecoterrorism
Eleven people were indicted in a series of arsons, claimed by the radical groups Earth Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front, in five Western states, the Justice Department said Friday. » More
[12/02/2005] Rights groups lists \'ghost detainees\' held by US overseas
A leading human rights monitor published the names of 26 \"ghost detainees\" that it accused the United States of holding and possibly torturing in secret overseas locations. » More
[11/27/2005] CIA Uses German Bases to Transport Terrorists, Paper Says
While the issue over secret CIA prisons in Europe continues to simmer, new allegations over undisclosed CIA flights transporting suspected terrorists is pushing European officials to demand answers from Washington. » More
[11/11/2005] C.I.A. Asks for Criminal Inquiry Over Secret-Prison Article
The Central Intelligence Agency has asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation to determine the source of a Washington Post article that said the agency had set up a covert prison network in Eastern Europe and other countries to hold important terrorism suspects, government officials said on Tuesday. » More
[11/11/2005] Senate Approves Limiting Rights of US Detainees
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[11/08/2005] Supreme Court to rule on Guantánamo trials
The US Supreme Court agreed on Monday to rule on whether President George W. Bush has the power to use specially established military commissions to try detainees held in the war on terrorism. » More
[11/08/2005] 400 police in anti-terror raids
SEVENTEEN people, including a prominent Muslim cleric, were arrested in raids involving some 400 officers in Sydney and Melbourne this morning in an operation police said \"disrupted ... the final stages of a large scale terrorist attack\". » More
[11/02/2005] CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons
The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement. » More
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