Cageprisoners' Response to Sunday Times Attack
08-02-2010
I was shocked and extremely disappointed to see your article in today's Sunday Times make no reference at all to the questions you so ardently sought to have answered (as mentioned below) and, that I explained to you in some detail in our telephone conversation yesterday.
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Yvonne Ridley on Dr. Aafia Siddiqui
08-02-2010
Dr AAFIA Siddiqui is a bright, intelligent woman who has been through hell having being kidnapped, tortured in secret prisons, gunned down by US soldiers and renditioned to America where she is now facing attempted murder charges against those who shot her. Only in the cock-eyed crosshairs of George W Bush’s War on Terror could this happen and I hope to God that the jurors who will go through the evidence during the next few hours, if not days, see through this rotten legacy and recognize the case for what it is … a tissue of lies enveloped in a web of deceit.
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Terror and academic freedom
08-02-2010
Draconian anti-terror laws are blocking the serious study of terrorism and counter-terrorism at UK universities
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THE TRUTH ABOUT US JUSTICE
06-02-2010
Even some of the US media expressed discomfort over the verdict returned by the jurors … there was a general feeling that something was not right.
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Aafia Siddiqui Trial Coverage
04-02-2010
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Aafia Siddiqui Trial Day Twelve
04-02-2010
After a day and a half of deliberation, a 12-member jury found Siddiqui guilty today on charges that she tried to kill a team of U.S. soldiers and FBI agents in Afghanistan in 2008.
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Rachid Ramda: An Unsurprising But Disconcerting Verdict
03-02-2010
On the 13th of October at 5.30 pm, at the end of a month of debate, the Special Court of Assizes in Paris judging on the appeal of M. Rachid Ramda found him guilty of “complicity in murder and attempted murder relating to terrorism by having given the orders and provided the means” for the bombings of Saint-Michel, Maison-Blanche and Musee d'Orsay in 1995 and sentenced him to life imprisonment with a concurrent sentence of 22 years without remission.
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SHOCK, HORROR, DRAMA: New York media miss shock, horror, drama ...
02-02-2010
The last seven years of Dr Aafia's life could have been penned by a Hollywood scriptwriter, but instead all the folk from Tinsel Town could come up with was the rather tame blockbuster movie Rendition starring Reese Witherspoon.
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Lawyers Appeal Guantanamo Trial Convictions
02-02-2010
Last Tuesday, a little known court — the Court of Military Commissions Review — convened to hear appeals in the cases of the only two men sentenced in the Military Commission trial system established by Congress in 2006, after the first version, conceived by Vice President Dick Cheney and his close advisors in November 2001, was ruled illegal by the US Supreme Court.
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UN Secret Detention Report Asks, “Where Are The CIA Ghost Prisoners?”
02-02-2010
A major new report on secret detention policies around the world, conducted by four independent UN human rights experts, concludes that, “On a global scale, secret detention in connection with counter-terrorist policies remains a serious problem,” and that, “If resorted to in a widespread and systematic manner, secret detention might reach the threshold of a crime against humanity.”
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Aafia Siddiqui Trial Day ten
02-02-2010
After nine days of testimony from eyewitnesses, experts and Siddiqui herself, jurors heard closing arguments Monday from both prosecutors and defense teams.
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Justice for everyone…except Omar Khadr
01-02-2010
It seems that in Canada “everyone” is entitled to our fundamental rights and freedoms and that “anyone” denied them can apply to a court for an appropriate remedy unless, of course, their name is Omar Khadr.
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Aafia Siddiqui Trial Day Nine
01-02-2010
He said he saw a soldier go behind the curtain and immediately after that he heard shots. He said there was a stampede of people trying to get out of the room and in the chaos he fell from his chair and was trampled.
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The Day I Will Never Forget (Brothers in Bosnia)?
01-02-2010
From inside, I heard a sound so frightening and strange I was not aware it was even a human voice. My blood iced in my veins when I realised it was Amars voice painfully crying.
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Call for more Guantanamo resettlements
01-02-2010
Two Guantanamo detainees resettled in Ireland four months ago are "adapting very well" to life in the west of Ireland and next week another former Guantanamo inmate will urge government to accept more released detainees from the controversial detention camp.
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Aafia Siddiqui Trial Day Eight
29-01-2010
After days of vowing to boycott her own trial, Siddiqui voluntarily took the stand today and testified in her own defense. Her testimony came over the strenuous objections of her attorneys, who filed an application with Judge Richard Berman asking that he block her from taking the witness stand due to what they say is her mental instability and "diminished capacity."
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UN: Worldwide Use of Secret Detention Centres
29-01-2010
According to a joint study conducted by four independent UN investigating groups, dozens of countries have illegally used secret detention facilities in their counter-terrorism efforts.
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Aafia Siddiqui Trial Day Seven
28-01-2010
Tobin said SS109 rounds are designed to shatter but that the part of the projectile known as the "penetrator" should remain intact. No bullets or bullet fragments were found inside the wall by the FBI investigators who were on the scene in Ghazni. Asked whether the penetrator could have bounced back into the room, as prosecutors suggested in earlier testimony, Tobin said that was unlikely. "If the laws of physics in Afghanistan are the same as here, it would just fall to the base of the wall," he said.
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Aafia Siddiqui Trial Coverage Day Six
27-01-2010
In a letter submitted earlier today to Judge Berman, the attorneys argued that Siddiqui "suffers from diminished capacity," and that if she is permitted to "continue her irrational and bewildering insistence that she has the power to influence the Taliban, she will invite jurors to infer that she has terrorist associations."
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Aafia Siddiqui Trial Day Five
26-01-2010
On cross examination by defense attorney Charles Swift, the warrant officer was asked about several sworn statements he gave in the days following the shooting in which he said that he saw Siddiqui "lunge for her weapon," which was in contrast to his earlier testimony during the day when he said Siddiqui was already holding the rifle and pointing it in his direction when he first saw her.
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