At least 50 U.S. State Department cables released by WikiLeaks report on the U.S. government's contacts and negotiations with foreign governments over U.S. detainee policies, requests to resettle detainees, and follow-up on resettlements.
AP | PETE YOST | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — Detainees at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan cannot use U.S. courts to challenge their imprisonment the way detainees in Guantanamo...
Kathy Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011
Acting as our own lawyers in court, we aimed to defend a population that finds little voice in our society at all, and to bring a sort of prosecution against their persecutors.
Jonathan Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011
The only way the United States will feel comfortable getting out of the risky and destructive detention business, is if it trusts the Afghan justice system.
Harry Shearer | Posted 05.25.2011
While the President and the punditocracy alike have no compunctions in talking about Guantanamo Bay, the word that continues to be unspoken is Bagram.
Jonathan Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011
Having toured it, I give the new Bagram detention facility a "vastly improved" grade compared to what it was before. But, that being said, U.S. detention policy still has a long way to go.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
With Gitmo celebrating another anniversary, it's a good time to revisit a fantastic McClatchy series, which addressed who the detainees were, and what happened in the prisons the Bush administration set up in Afghanistan and Cuba.
Jonathan Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011
New Bagram detainee procedures, while not all bad, fail to create a fair and effective detention system that will be credible in the eyes of the Afghan government, the Afghan people, and human rights groups.
Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
AFP | Lucile Malandain and Daphne Benoit | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON (AFP) For the first time, the United States is granting some 600 prisoners held in the US air base in Bagram the right to challenge their d...
Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011
I can't for the life of me figure out why Dick Cheney is still walking around free and -- even worse -- continues to get airtime so he can spew lies about the utter awesomeness of American torture.
Jonathan Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011
The U.S. military finally seems to have learned that dropping bombs on civilians isn't the way to win the hearts and minds of Afghans. But neither is grabbing people out of their houses and jailing them.
Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011
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.
Harry Shearer | Posted 05.25.2011
This weekend brought two different statements from representatives of two different governments about the notion of torture being used or condoned by their regimes.
Jonathan Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011
* Scroll down for the Pentagon's response. Text and photos by Jonathan Horowitz, a consultant working in Afghanistan for the Open Society Institute. ...
Huffington Post Contributor | Posted 05.25.2011
* Scroll down for the Pentagon's response. Text and photos by Jonathan Horowitz, a consultant working in Afghanistan for the Open Society Institute. ...
BBC NEWS | Posted 05.25.2011
Allegations of abuse and neglect at a US detention facility in Afghanistan have been uncovered by the BBC....
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
While he only dedicated the first two minutes of his show to the issue, Stephen Colbert's mini-segment on President Barack Obama's decision to preserv...
Daniel Firger | Posted 05.25.2011
Why does it seem so easy to bring charges against Somali pirates in federal court, but so hard to do the same with suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay?
Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011
Whereas Gitmo prisoners had, over the years, secured habeas corpus rights, none of these privileges had been extended to the prisoners in Bagram.
AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled Thursday that some prisoners in the war on terror can use U.S. civilian courts to challenge their detention a...
ProPublica | Posted 05.25.2011
In a court filing Friday, President Obama's lawyers declared that the new policy on detention is the same as Bush's.
The Independent | By Stephen Foley | Posted 05.25.2011
Less than a month after signing an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, President Barack Obama has quietly agreed to keep denying ...
AP | NEDRA PICKLER and MATT APUZZO | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, siding with the Bush White House, contended Friday that detainees in Afghanistan have no constitutional r...
Nancy Talanian | Posted 05.25.2011