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Thu. December 04, 2008

guardian.co.uk
December 3, 2008

There is, however, a third and equally important question arising out of the detentions at Guantánamo Bay, Bagram, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere. ...

US, Allies, Tortured and Abused Children in Iraq Prisons

Faxts News
December 3, 2008

GPF called for opening the Iraqi detention facilities "to national and international observers" and for establishing clear accountability for US officers ...

Dr. Aafia Siddiqui at Texas Medical Centre -

Associated Press of Pakistan
December 3, 2008

"Further action of the Federal Bureau of Prisons will be in accordance with the Court's future determination and directives to inmate Siddiqui's ability to ...

US Military Opens Probe Into Alleged Afghan Prisoner Abuse

EasyBourse.com
December 2, 2008

... notably in the Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad. According to human rights groups, former prisoners from the US military jail in Bagram, north of Kabul ...

The Secret Weapon

Commonweal
November 30, 2008

This story and similar ones now emerging from Guantánamo and other detention facilities should highlight a crucial problem in the torture debate in the ...

'The Most Dangerous Woman In The World'

Free Internet Press
November 30, 2008

After two weeks Aafia Siddiqui was flown from the US Air Force's Bagram airbase in Afghanistan to New York. She was now wearing a tracksuit, had two bullet ...

'The Most Dangerous Woman in the World'

Spiegel Online
November 27, 2008

After two weeks Aafia Siddiqui was flown from the US Air Force's Bagram airbase in Afghanistan to New York. She was now wearing a tracksuit, had two bullet ...

End a US, global disgrace

Statesman Journal
November 27, 2008

Those who reported physical abuse said most of it occurred at the US's Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, where about half the men were initially held before ...

'Human Terrain' Murder Suspect Brought to US

Wired News
November 26, 2008

Ayala was immediately taken into custody, and held at a detention facility at Bagram Air Force Base. Last week, Ayala he was charged with 2nd degree murder ...

UN: "Grave Abuses" Against Afghan Youth

CBS News
November 24, 2008

The National Directorate of Security has allowed only "sporadic" access to its detention facilities for monitoring bodies. Earlier this year, the United ...

Captive on film

Varsity
November 24, 2008

The evidence used against him is based on a series of confessions Khadr made at the US military base in Bagram and Guantanamo Bay. ...

Attorney hopes for Gitmo policy change

Statesman Journal
November 24, 2008

As the Democratic presidential nominee, Obama promised to close the prison at the US naval base, as did Republican rival John McCain. The US Supreme Court, ...

Tehran slams Canada over anti-Iran human rights resolution

ISNA
November 23, 2008

Inhuman condition in Gaza Strip, Palestinian lands, Guantanamo prison, Afghanistan's Bagram city, bombardment in the country, secrete arrests in Europe and ...

Dear Guantanamo Detainees

Middle East Online
November 23, 2008

(2) Sami al Haj, you were a journalist covering the conflict in Afghanistan for Al-Jazeera when you were captured and tortured at Bagram Air Base and ...

Number of juveniles held at Guantanamo almost twice official ...

RINF.COM
November 23, 2008

All were treated brutally in a US base in Gardez and at Bagram, where, according to another released prisoner, Habib Rahman (PDF, pp. ...

Obama pledges to close Guantanamo

Green Left Weekly
November 23, 2008

However, to have any genuine claim to "moral stature", his administration needs to close Abu Ghraib, Bagram and all secret prisons. ...

You´re Scaring Me, Obama: Let the Bush Years Die

American Chronicle
November 22, 2008

But what about Bagram? What about the other CIA "black site" secret prisons set up in Afghanistan, Thailand, Eastern Europe and elsewhere? ...

UN: UNITED NATIONS BRIEFING AND TV: FRIDAY, 21/11/2008 (MaximsNews ...

MaximsNews Network
November 22, 2008

... and human rights monitoring bodies full access to all their detention facilities, including the National Directorate of Security and the Bagram airbase. ...

Close Gitmo with great care: Barack Obama must not rush to shut ...

New York Daily News
November 22, 2008

... to be transferred and held indefinitely if necessary after judicial review in secure prisons inside the US or in Bagram, Afghanistan, or elsewhere. ...

Robert Fisk: Making movies the Afghan way

Belfast Telegraph
November 21, 2008

Robert Fisk visits a set near Bagram Drive north of Kabul for an hour, turn left into a grey desert and head east for fifteen minutes, the sand shawling up ...

Guantánamo detainees confirm 'arbitrary and humiliating' treatment ...

Berkeleyan Online
November 21, 2008

the US detention facility at Guantánamo Bay is an institution of total confinement designed largely to serve the needs of interrogators and their superiors. ...

How Bush can smooth the Gitmo transition

Los Angeles Times
November 21, 2008

The new team needs to be fully briefed on what the intentions have been for those held at the Bagram detention facility in Afghanistan, where the next ...

A National Security Court: Restoring the Balance Between Security ...

JURIST
November 20, 2008

Guantanamo Bay is but one detention facility; what about the detainees held in Abu Ghraib, Bagram and Camp Buco? What about detainees held elsewhere in the ...

Robert Fisk: Making movies the Afghan way

Independent
November 20, 2008

Fisk visits a set near Bagram Drive north of Kabul for an hour, turn left into a grey desert and head east for fifteen minutes, the sand shawling up the ...

Aafia Siddiqui not fit to stand trial

Tehran Times
November 19, 2008

Some political activists believe she was prisoner 650 of the US detention facility in Bagram, Afghanistan, where they say she was tortured for five years ...

When a friend become Malevolent

Frontier Post
November 18, 2008

But, after Bush's war-mongering and a mushroom of concentration camps at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, Bagram in Afghanistan, Guantanamo in Cuba and secret gulags ...

Eugene Robinson: Closing Guantanamo

Arizona Republic
November 18, 2008

Those who reported physical abuse said most of it occurred at the US's Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, where about half the men were initially held before ...

Torture must be investigated, not tolerated

Albany Times Union
November 18, 2008

At Guantanamo, at Abu Ghraib and in a little gulag of secret CIA prisons overseas, the Bush administration failed to live up to these basic responsibilities ...

20 Reasons to Shut Down the Guantánamo Trials

Lew Rockwell
November 18, 2008

A Tanzanian, and one of the 14 "high-value detainees" transferred to Guantánamo from secret CIA prisons in September 2006, Ghailani, who was captured after ...

Why Guantánamo Must Be Closed

Antiwar.com
November 18, 2008

Just as disturbing is the realization that, once they were in US custody in the prisons at Kandahar airport and Bagram airbase, the majority of the ...

Cal study finds ex-Guantanamo prisoners broken

San Francisco Chronicle
November 17, 2008

The first extensive study of prisoners released from the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, finds that many of them are physically and ...

Amnesty is lobbying the Government to accept a Guantánamo detainee ...

Irish Times
November 16, 2008

After Bagram, Mr Jabbarov was taken to a prison in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, and then transferred to Guantánamo in the summer of 2002. ...

Why Closing Gitmo Isn't Enough

The Washington Independent
November 14, 2008

Thousands more suspected terrorists, or their associates, are detained under similar conditions in other US-controlled prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq. ...

Guantánamo Bay was bad enough - Bagram is worse

RINF.COM
November 14, 2008

A portion of the prison known as the Afghan National Detention Facility, also designated Block D, is being used to detain suspected terrorists previously ...

Six years in Guantanamo

The New Nation
November 13, 2008

The TV cameraman, 38, was never charged with any crime, nor was he put on trial; his testimony makes it clear that he was held in three prisons for ...

Nigeria: Bush - End of a Bad Dream

AllAfrica.com
November 12, 2008

The torture of prisoners in Guantanamo, Bagram and other secret prisons which his administration endorsed has hurt the moral standing of the US. ...

No We Didn't

Boise Weekly
November 12, 2008

... secret prisons and concentration camps at Abu Ghraib, Bagram and Guantanamo (and don't forget Diego Garcia and the prison ships), if he quickly orders a ...

Sign petition to return Omar Khadr to Canada

Straight Goods
November 12, 2008

He has been held in solitary confinement at Guantanamo Bay for years on end, and he has been tortured in custody by US officials at both Bagram and ...

Pakistani MPs call for Gitmo closure

PRESS TV
November 11, 2008

Lawmakers have called for the closure of the US detention center in Cuba's Guantanamo Bay, demanding the release of all Pakistani prisoners. ...

Gitmo closing in flux: No definite plan, says Obama aide

New York Daily News
November 11, 2008

WASHINGTON - Team Obama reportedly wants to turn out the lights in Guantanamo Bay's notorious terror prison, but the President-elect's aides say no plan has ...