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Blog Entries by Andy Worthington from 09/2009

Who Are the Two Syrians Released From Guantanamo to Portugal?

| Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics

Their stories, as revealed in publicly available documents from Guantánamo, reveal that neither man had any connection whatsoever to international terrorism.

Spanish Judge Resumes Torture Case Against Six Senior Bush Lawyers

| Posted 09.08.2009 | Politics

Judge Baltasar Garzón is pressing ahead with a case against six senior Bush administration lawyers for implementing torture at Guantánamo.

No Escape From Guantanamo: The Latest Habeas Rulings

| Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics

Rulings made by District Court judges in the habeas corpus appeals of prisoners held at Guantánamo seemed to confirm that the courts were uniquely placed to deliver justice to the prisoners.

Is Bagram Obama's New Secret Prison?

| Posted 09.15.2009 | Politics

The Obama administration is following Bush's lead by unilaterally rewriting the Geneva Conventions, presumably to allow it to continue exploiting prisoners of war for their supposed intelligence value.

Guantanamo Envoy: U.S. Should Have Taken Cleared Prisoners; Some Should Never Have Been Held

| Posted 09.17.2009 | Politics

To my mind, President Obama missed a golden opportunity to bring 17 Uighur prisoners to the U.S. in his early days in office.

Judge Orders Release From Guantanamo of Kuwaiti Who Met Bin Laden

| Posted 09.18.2009 | World

Following Judge Kollar-Kotelly's ruling, the DOJ did not indicate whether it will appeal the decision, but I sincerely hope that the government follows the judge's advice and repatriates al-Rabia.

9/11 Trial At Guantanamo Delayed Again: Can We Have Federal Court Trials Now, Please?

| Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Scarcely in its history has the United States entertained such a shabby and shamelessly politicized travesty of justice as the Military Commissions.

A Truly Shocking Guantanamo Story: Judge Confirms That an Innocent Man Was Tortured to Make False Confessions

| Posted 09.30.2009 | Politics

The U.S. government tortured an innocent man to extract false confessions and then threatened him until he obligingly repeated those lies as though they were the truth.