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Faisalabad

Convert Or Die

Qasim Rashid | Posted 08.16.2011 | Religion
Read More: Finality of Prophethood, Taliban, Ahmadi, Faisalabad, Pakistan, Religious Freedom, Islam, Religious Persecution, Religion News
Qasim Rashid

While this letter specifically targets Ahmadi Muslims, lest we forget, Christians, Hindus, Jews, and even Atheists in Pakistan suffer similar systemic persecution.

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Guantanamo: A Prison Built On Lies

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Guantanamo Evidence, Foreign Affairs, Abu Zubaydah, President Obama, Administrative Review Boards, Guantanamo, Fbi, Obama Administration, Taliban, Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, Habeas Corpus, Dick Cheney, Politics News, Politics, Enemy Combatants, Obama Guantanamo, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Mosaic Theory, Guantanamo Bay, Judge Gladys Kessler, Advocacy, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Pakistan, Guantanamo Detainees, David Addington, Yemeni Detainees Guantanamo, US District Court, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Military Commissions, Al Qaeda, Faisalabad, Guantanamo Uighurs, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, Cuba, World News
Andy Worthington

It is difficult to see how much of the "evidence" against the Gitmo prisoners can be anything other than a tissue of lies extracted through torture, coercion, bribery and exploitation.

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Judge Gladys Kessler Releases Yemeni Detainee, Slams "Mosaic" Of Guantanamo Intelligence And Unreliable Witnesses

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: US Supreme Court, Guantanamo Evidence, War on Terror, Terrorism, Pakistan, Abu Zubaydah, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Taliban, Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, US District Court, Justice Department, Eric Holder, Al Qaeda, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Politics, Bagram, Judge Richard Leon, Robert Gates, Obama Guantanamo, Mohammed El-Gharani, Jabran Al-Qahtani, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Mosaic Theory, Guantanamo Bay, Dark Prison, The Guantanamo Files, Judge Gladys Kessler, Torture, Faisalabad, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, World News
Andy Worthington

I am surprised that senior Obama officials seem to have been content to let a Bush-era approach to prosecution survive unchanged.

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