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Take Action for Ahmed Belbacha, at Risk of Enforced Repatriation from...
Since the US Supreme Court ruled on July 17 that there was no legal obstacle to the involuntary repatriation of Algerians at Guantánamo, and one man, Abdul Aziz Naji, was promptly flown back to...
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Lawyers for Ahmed Belbacha, Guantánamo Prisoner and Former UK Resident, Sue...
In an attempt to bring to an end a nearly four-year deadlock in the case of Ahmed Belbacha, an Algerian prisoner in Guantánamo, lawyers at the London-based legal action charity Reprieve have “started...
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On Democracy Now! Andy Worthington and Katie Gallagher of CCR Discuss the...
This morning, as part of my current US tour to raise awareness of Guantánamo, in the week that the 173 men still held in the “War on Terror” prison begin their tenth year of detention, I was delighted...
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Guantánamo Forever?
On the 9th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, it may sound uncharitable to President Obama to be asking whether all plans to close the prison have failed, and to be asking whether it might...
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What Does Tunisia’s Revolution Mean for Political Prisoners, Including...
For the twelve Tunisians held in Guantánamo over the last nine years, the news that a popular uprising forced the hated dictator, President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, to flee the country for Saudi Arabia...
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Guantánamo: A Tale of Two Tunisians
Two weeks ago, in light of the uprising in Tunisia that brought to an end the 23-year reign of terror of President Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, I wrote an article about the twelve Tunisians held in...
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Torture and Terrorism: In the Middle East It’s 2011, In America It’s Still 2001
The gulf between what’s happening on the ground in the Middle East and the way it is perceived by the US intelligence services — as well as the gulf between how critics perceive America’s...
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Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Adel Al-Gazzar Returns Home to Egypt and Is Arrested
Yesterday, former Guantánamo prisoner Adel al-Gazzar (aka Adel El-Gazzar), who had been living in Slovakia since being freed last January from America’s notorious prison on Cuban soil, returned, for...
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Why Algeria Is Not A Safe Country for the Repatriation of Guantánamo Prisoners
Since July 2008, when the first Algerian prisoners were repatriated from Guantánamo, the position taken by the US government — first under George W. Bush, and, for the last three years, under Barack...
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Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Calls for Release of Djamel...
As published on the “Close Guantánamo” website. Please join us — just an email address required. On March 30, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), a key part of the Organization of...
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