Ahmed Belbacha

Guantánamo Uighurs Are Not Alone: US Communities Welcome Other Detainees in Need of Safe Haven

Nancy Talanian | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ravil Mingazov, Guantanamo, Amherst, Uighurs, Ahmed Belbacha, Detainees, Habeas Corpus, Politics News
Nancy Talanian

On April 22, attorneys for five Chinese Uighurs who remain at Guantánamo Bay prison will argue for their clients' entry into the US at a hearing sche...

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Britain's Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abdullah Bin Omar, Lotfi Bin Ali, Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, Terrorism, Tony Blair, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, David Addington, Abu Qatada, Ahmed Belbacha, Lotfi Lagha, Britain's Guantanamo, Politics, Libya, UK Government, UN Convention Against Torture, Return to Torture, World News
Andy Worthington

There are many unnerving similarities between the Bush administration's policies and those implemented in the U.K., which have caused barely a ripple of protest.

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Guantanamo: Repatriation as Russian Roulette

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mustafa Hamlili, Terrorism, Sandra Hodgkinson, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Abdul Raham Houari, Return to Torture, Algeria, The Guantanamo Files, Ahmed Belbacha, Al Qaeda, Guantanamo Torture, Torture, Politics News
Andy Worthington

In the disturbing game of Russian roulette that confronts Algerians repatriated after facing allegations of impropriety (however groundless), they could face torture, show trials and further imprisonment.

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