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Entries by Andy Worthington from 03/2009

Guantanamo: The Definitive Prisoner List

| Posted 03.05.2009 | World
Read More: Geneva Conventions, US Supreme Court, US Appeals Court, Terrorism, George W. Bush, Guantanamo Detainees, Maj. Gen. Michael Dunlavey, Guantanamo, David Addington, Taliban, US District Court, Habeas Corpus, Military Commissions, Osama Bin Laden, Dick Cheney, Al Qaeda, Politics, Guantanamo Uighurs, John Bellinger, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Jane Mayer, Mohammed El-Gharani, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Seton Hall Law School, Alberto Gonzales, The Guantanamo Files, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, World News

I've just published the first definitive list of the 779 prisoners who have been held in the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba (available in four p...

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Guantanamo's Long-Term Hunger Striker Should Be Sent Home

| Posted 03.20.2009 | World
Read More: Geneva Conventions, Hunger Strike, Force Feeding, Terrorism, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Barack Obama, Col. Bruce Vargo, Politics, Medical Ethics Guantanamo, Gen. Bantz J. Craddock, Guantanamo Hunger Strike, Sami Al-Haj, Saudi Arabia, Ahmed Zuhair, Breaking Politics News, Guantanamo Suicides, Ramzi Kassem, World News

Ahmed Zuhair, a 35-year old Saudi prisoner at Guantánamo -- and a father of ten -- has been on a hunger strike since June 2005, at the start of a fra...

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A Letter to Barack Obama from a Guantanamo Uighur

| Posted 03.26.2009 | World
Read More: Politics, Abu Bakker Qassim, Guantanamo Uighurs, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Albania, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Breaking Politics News, Uighurs, Barack Obama, World News

Mr. President, seventeen of my brothers remain in Guantánamo today. It is three years since I left the prison, and still they are there. Please end their suffering soon.

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