Last week, lawyer, ex-Army Captain, and Iraq veteran Phillip Carter, described by Glenn Greenwald as “a very harsh critic of the Bush administration's detention and interrogation policies,” suddenly resigned his post as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense ...
On Friday, District Court Judge Gladys Kessler ordered the release from Guantánamo of Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed, a 48-year-old Algerian, after granting his habeas corpus petition. Her ruling has not yet been declassified, so the reasons for her decision ...
Andy Worthington a freelance journalist and historian.
Andy writes regularly for newspapers and websites including the Guardian, Truthout, the Future of Freedom Foundation, Cageprisoners, the Daily Star, Lebanon, the Huffington Post, Antiwar.com, CounterPunch, AlterNet, and ZNet.
On November 8, 2009, Andy Worthington gave a talk on his new documentary film, Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo. The speech can viewed below in its entirety.
So it’s finally over. Ali al-Marri, a legal U.S. resident from Qatar, who was held as an “enemy combatant” on the U.S. mainland for five years and eight months without charge or trial, was finally sentenced in a federal ...
After railing against Senators and Representatives for their cowardly, uninformed, and unacceptable attempts to prevent President Obama from bringing any Guantánamo prisoner to the U.S. mainland for any reason — even for trials — which I wrote about most ...
In a recent article, “75 Guantánamo Prisoners Cleared For Release; 31 Could Leave Today,” I examined the implications of an announcement that 75 of the remaining 223 prisoners in Guantánamo have been cleared for release. This came ...
I like to believe that, despite studying Guantánamo for four years, I still have a sense of humor, but last Thursday I lost it, after 258 members of the House of Representatives (including 88 members of President Obama’s ...
Last Wednesday, Obama administration officials told the Washington Post, as Peter Finn described it, that the administration “has decided not to seek legislation to establish a new system of preventive detention to hold terrorism suspects.”
In some ways, of ...
As rumors swirl, suggesting that a number of the remaining 13 Uighur (Muslims from China’s Xinjiang province) prisoners in Guantánamo may soon be relocating to the tiny Pacific island state of Palau, a court case relating to ...
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