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Entries by Andy Worthington from 10/2007

A New Guantánamo Whistleblower Steps Forward to Criticize the Tribunal Process

| Posted 10.09.2007 | Politics
Read More: Stephen Abraham, Guantanamo, Tribunals, Detainee Abuse, Mohammed Al-Tumani, Adel Hamad, The Guantanamo Files, Detainees, Guantanamo Whistleblowers, Politics News

The saga of the Guantánamo whistleblowers resurfaced last week when an Army Major filed an affidavit in the case of a Sudanese detainee who was kidnapped in 2002 from his home in Pakistan.

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Guantánamo: Original Whistleblower Condemns Proposals to Hold New Tribunals as Hypocritical and Cowardly

| Posted 10.16.2007 | Politics
Read More: Stephen Abraham, OARDEC, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Military Commissions Act, Theodore Fessel Jr, Habeas Corpus, Torture, Lt. Col Abraham, Politics News

Planning new tribunals would not only reveal the original process as a sham; it would also prolong an already intolerable situation.

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The Afghan Teenager Put Forward for Trial by Military Commission at Guantánamo

| Posted 10.17.2007 | Politics
Read More: Guantanamo, Child Prisoners, Mohamed Jawad, Children in Guantanamo, Omar Khadr, Donald Rumsfeld, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News

Dozens of teenagers - some as young as 12 or 13 - have been held in Guantánamo over the years, but until now Khadr was the only one to face a trial.

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Guantánamo Suicides: So Who's Telling the Truth?

| Posted 10.24.2007 | Politics
Read More: Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Suicides, Torture, Department of Defense, Gitmo, Guantanamo, Politics News

Sixteen months after the first deaths, it is surely time for the investigators of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service to deliver their verdict.

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