An investigation by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) has revealed that former detainees at the U.S. Bagram airbase in Afghanistan were beaten, deprived of sleep and threatened with dogs. The BBC's conclusions are based on interviews with 27 former detainees...
Empty Evidence
At the end of a hectic week at Guantánamo, which saw the Obama administration overcome its previous inability to release prisoners (just two were released from January to May), it was announced that, following the release of four Uighurs to Bermuda, the return...
Obama’s Wrong Turn on Detention
Pioneers of Torture
When the Abu Ghraib photos were released in 2004, it seemed that most Americans were shocked by such novel and horrific images, but at least one was not. I'm talking about Alfred McCoy, who had been following the Central Intelligence Agency since the early 1970s, when...
Death At Guantánamo Hovers Over Obama’s Middle East Visit
Obama Versus Osama
How Many Times Will Guantánamo Kill?
Obama Breaking Vows on Secrecy
Out of Guantánamo and Into Court
In a move that seems to open up a route out of Guantánamo for prisoners accused of having an active involvement with international terrorism that does not involve reviving the much-criticized system of trials by military commission, the Justice Department...