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Guantanamo Hunger Strike

Death at Guantanamo Hovers Over Obama's Middle East Visit

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Force Feeding, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, President Obama, Guantanamo, Obama Middle East Policy, Taliban, Obama Mideast Trip, Barack Obama, Politics News, Politics, Death at Guantanamo, Obama Middle East Trip, Bush Administration, Guantanamo Hunger Strike, Obama Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Muhammad Salih, Guantanamo Suicides, President Bush, Closing Guantanamo, Politics News
Andy Worthington

A death at Guantánamo is always felt keenly in the Muslim world, and is also uncomfortable for the Obama administration, which claims that it is running a "humane" facility.

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Guantanamo's Long-Term Hunger Striker Should Be Sent Home

Andy Worthington | Posted 04.20.2009 | World

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Hunger Strike, Force Feeding, Terrorism, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Barack Obama, Col. Bruce Vargo, Politics, Medical Ethics Guantanamo, Gen. Bantz J. Craddock, Guantanamo Hunger Strike, Sami Al-Haj, Saudi Arabia, Ahmed Zuhair, Breaking Politics News, Guantanamo Suicides, Ramzi Kassem, World News
Andy Worthington

Ahmed Zuhair, a 35-year old Saudi prisoner at Guantánamo -- and a father of ten -- has been on a hunger strike since June 2005, at the start of a fra...

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Who's Running Guantanamo?

Andy Worthington | Posted 03.12.2009 | World

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Hunger Strike, Terrorism, Abdul Rahim Al-Nashiri, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Lt. Col. Yvonne Bradley, Death in Guantanamo, Susan Crawford, Binyam Mohamed, David Addington, Military Commissions Act, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Politics, Bush Administration Torture, Guantanamo Hunger Strike, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Robert Gates, Sandra Hodgkinson, Breaking Politics News, Col. James Pohl, Mohammed Al-Qahtani, Tara Jones, Closing Guantanamo, Torture, World News
Andy Worthington

On January 20, the answer to that question seemed obvious. However, on January 29, the Commissions' recently appointed chief judge provided the first challenge to the president's plans.

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I Took a Truth Serum Test

Paulette Cooper | Posted 03.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cult, Scientology, Terrorists, Narcoanalysis, Truth Serum, Guantanamo Hunger Strike, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Gitmo, Torture, Politics News
Paulette Cooper

Now that our government is abandoning the coercive methods of the past, they might look into "truth serum" as a more humane (and in instances like mine, more effective) method of eliciting the truth.

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Last(ing) Days of Indignity..?

Ross Tuttle | Posted 02.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Binyam Mohamed, Jose Padilla, Guantanamo, Barack Obama Guantanamo, Human Rights, Guantanamo Hunger Strike, Gitmo, Torture, Politics News
Ross Tuttle

The Pentagon reports that 42 GTMO detainees are on a hunger strike. Human rights lawyers estimate the total is closer to 70, roughly 30% of those remaining in this netherworld prison.

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Seven Years of Guantanamo, Seven Years of Torture and Lies

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.11.2009 | World

Read More: George Bush, Geneva Conventions, Al-Qaeda, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Maj. Gen. Michael Dunlavey, Donald Rumsfeld, Guantanamo, David Addington, Taliban, Salim Hamdan, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Osama Bin Laden, Bush Administration Torture, Guantanamo Hunger Strike, Obama Transition, Closing Guantanamo, Torture, The Guantanamo Files, World News
Andy Worthington

Seven years later, it should be abundantly clear that none of the defenders of Guantanamo who indulged in hysterical rhetoric had any idea what they were talking about.

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Brother of US "Enemy Combatant" Released from Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, Al-Qaeda, Guantanamo Hunger Strike, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Jarallah Al-Marri, Ali Al-Marri, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, Taliban, Qatar, US District Court, Politics News
Andy Worthington

What is distressing about this latest batch of releases is that two of the men -- those from Afghanistan and the UAE -- have left Guantanamo as unknown as when they arrived.

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