Six years in jail, no charge: war on terror's forgotten victim speaks
08-07-2010
Babar Ahmad, 35, is the longest-serving prisoner held without charge or trial in the UK. In his first media interview since his arrest on a US extradition warrant in 2004, Mr Ahmad tells Robert Verkaik that he is the forgotten victim of the 'war on terror'. In March 2009, he was awarded £60,000 in compensation after an admission by the UK's anti-terrorist police that they subjected him to 'grave abuse, tantamount to torture' during his first arrest in December 2003. Corresponding via email from a secure isolation unit at Long Lartin prison, he calls on the Government to charge him or release him. Today, the European Court of Human Rights rules on his case
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Fighting ghosts: an interview with Husein Al-Samamara
02-07-2010
Institute for Race Relations has just published an interview with Husein Al-Samamara, currently subjected to draconian immigration bail conditions in the UK as he fights against his deportation to Jordan, where he was imprisoned and tortured. His story recently featured on a BBC Newsnight report.
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Gitmo detainees were exploited for intelligence
30-06-2010
Pakistan-based political analyst Ali Kamran Chishti recently interviewed former Guantanamo Bay prison chief prosecutor Colonel Morris Davis.
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Experiments in Torture: Physicians group alleges US conducted illegal research on detainees
08-06-2010
Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) has just released evidence it says indicates that the Bush administration conducted "illegal and unethical human experimentation and research" on detainees' response to torture while in CIA custody after 9/11.
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National Geographic: Inside Guantanamo
01-06-2010
Exclusive footage obtained by National Geographic in a revealing major documentary about the world's most infamous prison camp.
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Guantanamo Forever
23-05-2010
Two days after his inauguration in January 2009, Barack Obama, the US president, signed an executive order promising to close the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba within one year. But the deadline was missed, and today some 180 men are still being held at Guantanamo.
Now many worry that Guantanamo may not close during Obama's first term and may even stay open far into the future. People & Power's Bob Abeshouse investigates why Guantanamo remains open, and the obstacles to closing it any time soon.
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Testimony of former U.S. Navy Corpsman at Guantanamo Bay
14-05-2010
"There were men in very small cells that were hunkered down in various ways. People in misery. Many of the men seemed in agony, hiding their heads. It felt like they were on the edge of animal. Like unhappy zoo animals. Kind of slow moving. Perhaps they were on medication for depression."
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Letters of Faith: A short film about the plight of Shaker Aamer
29-04-2010
Despite his innocence, Shaker Aamer remains incarcerated as Guantanamo's last British resident.
Watch the latest Cageprisoners' presentation, 'Letters of Faith' a moving account of the plight of Shaker Aamer and his children who wait patiently for his return one day.
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Ghosts: A disturbing new film on the torture of Canadians citizens
15-04-2010
On March 22nd Morvary Samare was on the CTV noon news to talk about the release of a new documentary "Ghosts", which had its world premiere at the Montreal Human Rights film Festival. The film reveals the extent to which the Canadian government was complicit in the severe torture of Canadian citizens Abdullah Almalki, Ahmad El Maati and Muayyed Nureddin
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US Recants Claims on "High Value Detainee" Abu Zubaydah
01-04-2010
The US Justice Department has quietly recanted nearly every major claim the Bush administration had made about "high-value" detainee Abu Zubaydah, a Guantanamo prisoner - waterboarded 83 times in secret prisons - who at one time was said to have planned the 9/11 attacks and was the No. 2 and 3 person in al-Qaeda.
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‘War on terror’ has cost Pakistan $50bn and 40,000 people killed or injured, says Imran Khan
26-03-2010
During his visit to London earlier this month, Imran Khan, Chairman of Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insafi (PTI) in an exclusively interview with The Muslim News, he argued that Pakistan should be independent of US influence in the country which is “destroying Pakistan”.
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Yvonne Ridley and Imran Khan answer tough questions on the case of Aafia Siddiqui
22-03-2010
Two leading campaigners for justice in the case of Aafia Siddiqui, Yvonne Ridley and Imran Khan, answer some tough questions on Pakistan's Awaz TV about one of the most contraversial cases in the history of Pakistan
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The Talking Dog Interview with Ellen Lubell
11-03-2010
Ellen Lubell is a partner at Tennant Lubell, a law firm in Newton, Mass. Ms. Lubell and her partner Doris Tennant represent Abdul Aziz Naji, an Algerian national detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Talking Dog treats us to an in-depth interview with her focusing on the legal and moral struggle faced by her client.
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Galloway speaks with Andy Worthington about Torture
09-03-2010
George Galloway speaks with author of The Guantanamo Files about the use of torture and the fact that MI6 knew and allowed torture to go on all in the cause of War on Terrorism.
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Cageprisoners Interview with Brent Mickum
09-03-2010
Brent Mickum is the US lawyer of Shaker Aamer and Abu Zubaydah. he was the first attorney to volunteer to represent the deatainees there and has become a vocal advocate for their rights
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Moazzam Begg speaks about Omar Khadr's case
01-02-2010
Omar Khadr is a Canadian citizen that has been held in Guantanamo bay for seven years. He is the only citizen from a western country still held in Guantanamo. The Canadian Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that Omar Khadrs right to life, liberty and security has been violated and continues to be violated. Mark Kelly asks Canada what do we do about Omar Khadr?
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The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle
18-01-2010
Army Staff Sergeant Joseph Hickman and men under his supervision have disclosed evidence in interviews with Harper’s Magazine that strongly suggests that the three prisoners who died on June 9 had been transported to another location prior to their deaths. The guards’ accounts also reveal the existence of a previously unreported black site at Guantánamo where the deaths, or at least the events that led directly to the deaths, most likely occurred.
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Guantanamo: The Reunion
14-01-2010
Victoria Debyshire has been speaking to two British men who were held prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, and one of the American soldiers who kept guard over them.
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An Interview With Andy Worthington About Guantánamo, “Outside the Law” and New Media
02-01-2010
An interview with Andy Worthington by Amelia King discussing "Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo", the British citizens and residents held in Guantanamo, and the power of the new media.
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British High Court judge frees control order detainee Faraj Hasan
23-12-2009
The 28 year old British resident has spent the last 7.5 years of his life incarcerated or under a crushing control order imposed by the Home Office and the Security Services. On 21st December 2009, after weeks of cross-examination of all parties involved, a High Court judge ruled he should be freed.
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