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Blog Entries by Andy Worthington from 08/2009

Guantanamo As Hotel California: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave

| Posted 08.03.2009 | Politics
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Prisoners who do not face ill-treatment on return to their homelands are still held, no matter how many times their release is approved by various representatives of the U.S. government.

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A Plea to Barack Obama from the Guantanamo Uighurs

| Posted 08.06.2009 | Politics
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Four months ago, 17 unjustly detained prisoners wrote a letter to Obama asking for their release. The government censors have only just cleared it and I have reprinted it here.

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Bagram Isn't The New Guantanamo, It's The Old Guantanamo

| Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics
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From what I have been able to gather about the workings of Bagram, I have no reason to conclude that the prison is now being run according to the Geneva Conventions.

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