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Despite being the eleventh anniversary of the 9/11 attacks the US legacy of secret prisons and torture won't be forgotten by simply handing over the prison facilities to others

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Andy Worthington on the significance of WikiLeaks' release of secret military documents on the Guantanamo prisoners.

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Thursday, 03 March 2011 13:27

Friday: the day that toppled the tyrants

Since the beginning of the revolutions in the Arab world the most disconcerting day of the week for rulers has been Friday - yaum al-Jum'ah, the Day of Gathering. 

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Andy Worthington on what lies behind the plea deal of Guantanamo prisoner Noor Uthman Muhammed in his Military Commission trial.

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Andy Worthington bemoans the British media's failure to challenge George W. Bush's claims about the legality and efficacy of torture.

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Friday, 29 October 2010 15:07

Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi

Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi's case is perhaps the most notorious and controversially stark example of what happens when the use of torture is justified by the state. Following 'Operation Enduring Freedom' only a handful of alleged Al-Qaeda members were not sent to Guantanamo and became 'disappeared'. Al-Libi was one of them.
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This is the sixth part of an exclusive nine-part series telling the stories of all 174 prisoners in Guantanamo.

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As Colonel Gaddafi marks 41 years in power, Andy Worthington reports on the release of a former Guantanamo prisoner and three former CIA "ghost prisoners," but notes that others are still held.

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Andy Worthington examines the disturbing secrecy surrounding the recent conviction of Ibrahim al-Qosi at Guantanamo, and the prospects for the repatriation of the three remaining Sudanese prisoners.

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New revelations from Poland unearth more than was previously known about the secret CIA prisons in Poland and Romania. Andy Worthington reports.

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How US courts have overplayed the significance of torture victim Abu Zubaydah in a court case involving the Algerian, Sufyian Barhoumi.

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Monday, 24 April 2006 04:37

Is Torture Ever Justified?

Moazzam Begg's powerful presentation to the Law Society  in 2006 for the Graham Turnbull Award ceremony on the merits of torture                                                


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