Lakhdar Boumediene

Hypocrisy Alert: Cheney Relies on the Objectivity of the Justice Department to Defend Torture

Mitchell Bard | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics


Mitchell Bard

The gall of Cheney's statements is that he was a key part of the administration that deconstructed the objectivity of the Justice Department, which he now relies on to defend the use of torture.

The Bush Hangover: Guantanamo Undercuts Our Protests of North Korea

Mitchell Bard | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics


Mitchell Bard

The next time you see a Republican defend torture or Guantanamo, think of what is going on in North Korea now and what Lakhdar Boumediene went through.

Lakhdar Boumediene: I Was Tortured At Guantanamo

The Huffington Post | Posted 07.09.2009 | Politics


Lakhdar Boumediene was an aid worker for the Red Crescent when he was swept up in a 2001 raid by Bosnian police and then transferred to the military p...

Boumediene Describes Guantanamo Experience: Interrogated For 16 Straight Nights

nytimes.com | STEVEN ERLANGER | Posted 06.27.2009 | World


PARIS -- A former Guantánamo detainee, an Algerian given a new home in France, is contending that he was interrogated at the Cuban detention center f...

Freed Bosnian Calls Guantanamo "The Worst Place In The World"

Andy Worthington | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics


Andy Worthington

It remains an appalling indictment of the Bush administration's detention policies that it took nearly seven years for the case of three Bosnian Algerian Guantanamo inmates to be reviewed.