Jordan al-Qaida prisoners protest sentences with hunger strike
A Jordan Public Security Department spokesman said Sunday that five suspected al-Qaida prisoners started a hunger strike on Tuesday to protest sentences handed down by Jordan's State Security Court in 2000. The prisoners are being...
JURIST Guest Columnist Mary Ellen O'Connell of Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University, says that when it comes to fighting terrorism, the experienced British, newly challenged in the recent London bombings, have the right idea... The British have shown...
Prisoners begin hunger strike as Israeli officials deny Koran abuse
Palestinian detainees at Israel's Megiddo prison began a hunger strike on Wednesday as Israeli officials denied reports that prison guards there had abused the Koran, echoing similar stories from Guantanamo Bay . Prisoners complained that...
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 [containing allegations that military jailers flushed the Koran down the toilet and in...
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...
Former Gitmo detainees held at Pakistani prison without charge
A leading Pakistan daily reported Friday that 40 detainees released from US detention at Guantanamo Bay have been held without charges at Rawalpindi's Adiala prison for the past eight months. Pakistani law currently allows the detention of "Indian agents"...
UN rights official calls detention of former Haiti PM illegal
Thierry Fagart, human rights head of the UN stabilization mission in Haiti , has called the 10-month detention of former Haitian Prime Minister Yvon Neptune without an appearance before a judge illegal under the Haitian constitution...
German citizen wrongly held in Kabul until Rice release order
US government officials disclosed Friday that a German citizen originally detained as a terror suspect was released in May of 2004, on direct orders from then-national security advisor Condoleezza Rice after he had spent five months in...
Former Gitmo detainees remain imprisoned without charge in Pakistan
More than three dozen Pakistanis transferred to their home country from detention at Guantanamo Bay remain imprisoned, most without charge, Pakistani government officials have said. The prisoners include 32 transferred by the US in September 2004 and another seven...
UN Security Council calls on Haiti to curb rights violations
The UN Security Council has urged government officials in Haiti to curb human rights violations and expedite the releases of political leaders currently held in prison. In a statement Wednesday the...
