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Entries by Andy Worthington from 10/2008

The Dark Heart of Guantanamo

| Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics

Vandevelt's profound criticisms of a system that imprisons juveniles and suppresses evidence relevant to the defense, is just part of a much darker narrative that has been unfolding for the last 18 months.

Two 50 Year Olds Are Released From Guantanamo

| Posted 10.08.2008 | Politics

Like at least 120 other prisoners seized in Pakistan, their long imprisonment never had anything to do with al-Qaeda or the war in Afghanistan.

From Guantanamo to the United States? Meet the Uighurs

| Posted 10.09.2008 | Politics

On Tuesday, in an extraordinary and unprecedented ruling in a US District Court, Judge Ricardo Urbina ruled that 17 wrongly imprisoned Chinese Muslims...

New Evidence of Systemic Bias in Guantanamo Trials

| Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files, continues his analysis of the corrupt command structure of the Military Commissions at Guantánamo,...

U.S. Justice Department drops "dirty bomb plot" allegation against Binyam Mohamed

| Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics

As the Washington Post reported yesterday, the U.S. Justice Department has dropped the key allegation against British resident and Guantánamo prisone...

Guantanamo Uyghurs' resettlement prospects skewered by Justice Department lies

| Posted 10.17.2008 | Politics

Guantánamo is full of bleak stories. How could it fail to be, when it is a vast failed experiment, a "terror prison" that contains few terrorists, a ...

The Collapse of Omar Khadr's Guantanamo Trial

| Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

The latest news to rock the Commissions is that the trial of Omar Khadr... has been delayed until after the administration leaves office.

An Empty Trial at Guantanamo

| Posted 10.28.2008 | Politics

Yesterday, the second trial by Military Commission at Guantánamo -- the second US "war crimes" trial since WWII -- opened not with a bang, and not even with a whimper, but with complete silence.