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Entries by Andy Worthington from 09/2008

Victim of Rendition and Torture Freed from Guantanamo

| Posted 09.04.2008 | Politics

News that three more prisoners have been released from Guantánamo is cause for celebration, as all three men should never have been held in the first...

Two Afghans Released from Guantanamo: a Farmer and a Teenager

| Posted 09.07.2008 | Politics

The stories of the two Afghans released with Madni -- though involving slightly less brutality -- do nothing to justify the United States' detention policies in the "War on Terror."

Controversy Still Plagues Guantanamo's Military Commissions

| Posted 09.10.2008 | Politics

Lost in the coverage of Hamdan's trial, which dominated media reports about Guantanamo was the fact that a twenty-third prisoner had been put forward for trial by Military Commission on July 28.

Guantanamo trials: another insignificant Afghan charged

| Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics

The Military Commissions at Guantánamo -- the trial system for "War on Terror" prisoners that was established in the wake of the 9/11 attacks -- are ...

Seized at 15, Omar Khadr turns 22 in Guantanamo

| Posted 09.19.2008 | Huffington Post

Today, Omar Khadr, the sole Canadian citizen in Guantánamo, marks his 22nd birthday in isolation. Seized in Afghanistan when he was just 15 years old...

Guantanamo: Government Says Six Years Is Not Long Enough To Prepare Evidence

| Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics

Imagine after six and a half years of this imprisonment -- in which, unlike convicted criminals on the US mainland, you have never been charged or tried, and have not been allowed a single visit from your loved ones.

Is Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Running the 9/11 Trials?

| Posted 09.28.2008 | Politics

It could all have been so different. Between September 2002 and April 2003, the five defendants in the forthcoming 9/11 trial at Guantánamo -- Khalid...

A Message to Barack Obama: Don't Forget Cheney and Addington

| Posted 09.29.2008 | Politics

Obama the presidential candidate has been almost silent on the crimes of the current administration.