SEATTLE (AP) - A man who helped plot an attack with machine guns and grenades on a Seattle military complex has been sentenced to 17 years in prison.

CagePrisoners has no political affiliations, but would urge all to step aside and show support for Dr Fauzia Siddiqui, the sister of Dr Aafia Siddiqui in the forthcoming elections in Pakistan.

Friday circle presents CagePrisoners FundRaiser on Friday 12th April 2013. CagePrisoners is an organisation created to tackle the so called 'War on Terror'. They create awareness of the underlying issue which has seen many Muslim brothers and sister kidnapped, tortured and incarcerated for many years without trial.

Director of Research Asim Qureshi will be our guest speaker and will be explaining the Drone Attacks on Pakistan. Unarmed planes are flown to Pakistan dropping bombs indiscriminatley killing innocent women, children and men.

CagePrisoners needs our help. Without funding they cannot continue to do the great work they do. We cannot let their great efforts be kerbed due financial restraints when the Muslim ummah especially in Britain have been blessed with so much wealth.

This is a BROTHERS ONLY event and will be held in Al Muzammil Mosque Gatton Road, Tooting. All brothers are encouraged to attend and donate generously.

A political analyst tells Press TV that there is a kind of very brutal attempt to clamp down on the prisoners in Guantanamo Bay to try and stop them from being on hunger strike.

(Reuters) - Italy's president on Friday pardoned a U.S. Air Force officer convicted of kidnapping an Egyptian Muslim cleric who was taken away for interrogation on a CIA "rendition" flight.

The UN human rights chief, Navi Pillay, has urged the US to close Guantanamo Bay, saying the indefinite detention of many inmates there without charge or trial violates international law.

In the midst of an ongoing hunger strike, the military is denying reporters access to the prison camps at Guantanamo Bay. Military reps tell reporters it will be over a month before there’s even a possibility of a tour of the detention facility.

OTTAWA — Aaron Yoon, the Canadian man linked to two London, Ont., high school friends who died in a terrorism mission in Algeria, is serving a two-year jail sentence in Mauritania for having ties to Al Qaeda, says Amnesty International.

The last Briton held at U.S. detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has joined a hunger strike in protest against the mistreatment of copies of The Holy Qur’an by U.S. troops there.

In Yemen, hundreds of people protested outside the U.S. embassy in Sana’a to call for the release of Yemeni prisoners from Guantánamo.