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  • US accused of ‘torture flights’
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Stephen Grey
    AN executive jet is being used by the American intelligence agencies to fly terrorist suspects to countries that routinely use torture in their prisons.
    The movements of the Gulfstream 5 leased by agents from the United States defence department and the CIA are detailed in confidential logs obtained by The Sunday Times which cover more than 300 flights.
    Countries with poor human rights records to which the Americans have delivered prisoners include Egypt, Syria and (…)

  • VANUNU RE-ARRESTED BY DOZENS OF ARMED POLICE; LATER RELEASED TO HOUSE ARREST
    14 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Israeli nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu was released from custody that evening, following his arrest in a dramatic and excessive show of force early Thursday morning, November 11, at St. George’s Cathedral in East Jerusalem. He has been punished yet again, and placed under house arrest for seven days. His cell phones were returned to him, but he is still waiting for his laptop computers to be returned.
    Vanunu was warned that he is still bound by the severe restrictions placed on him (…)

  • Cherie Blair lambasts Bush
    1 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Tisha Steyn
    London - Cherie Blair, wife of the British Prime Minister, has criticised the policies of the US President George W Bush, attacking his stance on terrorist prisoners and gay rights, according to media reports here on Sunday.
    Blair, a lawyer on a lecture tour of the United States, was condemned by supporters of the US President after a speech to Harvard law students in Massachusetts which contained a stinging rebuke to Bush, the Scotland on Sunday newspaper reported on its (…)

  • Stuck in Guantanamo
    29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Murat Kurnaz from Bremen, Germany is imprisoned in Guantanamo. The United States accuses him of being associated with a suicide bomber. The only problem? The suicide bomber is still alive and living as a free man in Germany. Kurnaz, though, remains behind bars.
    The military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay holds its hearings at Camp Delta in a run-down barracks building with red carpeting and iron rings embedded in the floor to which the prisoners can be chained like dogs.
    Despite the heat and (…)

  • The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
    28 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    This Strips Away the Last Vestiges of Moral Authority
    By ROBIN COOK
    Those close to him mutter, under their breath of course, that Tony Blair’s only moment of doubt over Iraq came in the wake of the exposure of the Abu Ghraib scandal.
    This is plausible, as our Prime Minister possesses a Gladstonian moral imperative. He believes that any economy with the truth over the threat from Saddam’s vanishing weapons of mass disappearance would be forgiven in the short run by his electorate and in (…)

  • Israel Must Rethink Prisoner Policy
    27 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Uri Avnery
    "For all I care, they can starve to death!" announced Tzahi Hanegbi, after Palestinian prisoners declared an open-ended hunger strike against prison conditions. Thus the Minister for Internal Security added another memorable phrase to the lexicon of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
    Hanegbi became famous (or infamous) for the first time when, as a student activist, he was caught on camera with his friends hunting Arab students with bicycle chains. At the time I published a (…)

  • Detentions ’not right’ - Rimington
    19 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Tania Branigan
    A former head of MI5 has condemned the detention of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay, where British security service officials are said to have repeatedly interrogated suspects under harsh conditions.
    Dame Stella Rimington’s comments came just two weeks after Britons formerly held at the camp described how MI5 officers questioned them at length.
    Their lawyers accuse the UK of "complicity" in the detention and mistreatment of prisoners by the US at its Cuban base.
    "It (…)

  • The State of Bush vs the State of Law
    14 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
    Where did the Bush regime go wrong?
    Somewhere along the line, once, George W. Bush and his clique of elitist super-rich entrepreneurs who dictate White House policy, must have had political objectives, must have believed that they could do good for America and for the world. What has ensued is a systematic abuse of power, a systematic disregard for international law and a systematic outrage of human rights. Where did the Bush regime get it wrong?
    The recent (…)

  • National Guard Troops in Iraq Intervene in Prisoner Beatings
    14 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Global Eye Unnatural Acts
    By Chris Floyd
    After months of bad press, here at last was an act of genuine humanitarianism by U.S. troops in Iraq that could have been trumpeted to the skies: a unit of National Guard troops — part-time citizen-soldiers from Oregon — rescuing a group of prisoners from sadistic torture by the security forces of the "sovereign" Iraqi government. Yet the incident was buried by U.S. brass, who repudiated their own soldiers — and backed the Iraqi torturers.
    It (…)

  • Humiliation and Destabilisation or concerted plans
    7 August 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Thompson
    We are all reeling from the shock of seeing on our television screens the horrific and inhuman ritual humiliation of Iraqi prisoners who have had the ill fortune to find themselves in an establishment run by the armed forces of the U.S.A. Immediately following on from this we have seen re-runs of the sight of a swaggering Mr George W. Bush on 1st May 2003, after he had landed on an aircraft-carrier under a banner reading "Mission Accomplished", somewhat prematurely (…)