US Military Admits GITMO Wrongfully Detained For 13 Years. The Periodic Review Board, which reviews cases of prisoners still held at Guantanamo Bay, conceded a Yemeni prisoner was wrongfully detained.
U.S. military forces transferred Mustafa al-Shamiri from Afghanistan to Guantanamo on June 12, 2002. According to a 2008 detainee assessment brief released by WikiLeaks, officials believed Shamiri was a member of al Qaida, as Yemeni intelligence had identified his name on “al Qaida affiliated documents.” They believed he was part of a Yemen-based cell that attacked the U.S.S. Cole. “It was previously assessed that [Shamiri] also was an al Qaida facilitator or courier, as well as a trainer, but we now judge that these activities were carried out by other known extremists with names or aliases similar to [Shamiri’s],” the Board concluded in a summary of Shamiri’s case [PDF].
Shamiri, for the time being, remains a “forever prisoner,” someone indefinitely detained at Guantanamo. But the Periodic Review Board’s assessment of Shamiri is contradictory. U.S. Will Increase Force-Feedings of Guantanamo Prisoner Instead of Releasing Him. President Barack Obama’s administration would rather subject a gravely ill Guantanamo Bay prisoner to continuous abusive force-feedings, which amount to torture, than support his release from the military prison because he is sick.
Tariq Ba Odah, a Yemeni prisoner and resident of Saudi Arabia, has been on hunger strike for more than eight years at the military prison. He has been confined in “solitary conditions” for 13 years, despite the fact that Obama’s own review task force—comprised of officials from the top US security agencies—cleared Odah for release in 2009. His body can no longer endure the effects of nasal tube feedings, and he weighs about 74 pounds. In June, his lawyers at the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) launched a legal push for Odah’s release because the US has an “obligation to release seriously wounded and sick prisoners” under the “laws of war,” particularly the Third Geneva Convention. Also, the government contends Odah has refused medical treatment. Dr. Guantanamo Psychologist Led Rendition and Imprisonment of Afghan Boys, Complaint Charges. Four Ohio residents filed court papers last week seeking to compel the Ohio State Psychology Board to investigate Dr.
Larry James, a retired Army colonel and former chief psychologist for the intelligence command at the Guantanamo Bay prison facility, who oversaw the brutal torture of detainees, including children. The motion was filed by Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic (IHRC) in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas on behalf of the four residents, which includes a psychologist, a veteran, a minister and a long-time mental health advocate. Earlier this year, the psychology board had dismissed a complaint first filed by the same Ohio residents last July, stating, "It has been determined that we are unable to proceed to formal action in this matter.
" Omar Khadr and Gitmo Juvenile ‘Enemies’ of US. “I have memories, but I don’t know if they’re mine, if they are accurate or not,” said Omar Khadr recently, recalling the events for which he was convicted by a U.S. military tribunal.
Khadr, a Canadian citizen, spent almost nine years at Guantánamo Bay after being captured in Afghanistan at age 15. His father, Egyptian-Canadian Ahmed Said Khadr, who had connections to Al Qaeda’s elite, sent Omar Khadr to work mainly as an interpreter in Afghanistan with those fighting U.S. forces who had dispersed the Taliban government in early 2002. On July 27, 2002, in Khost, Afghanistan, Omar Khadr found himself in a firefight, during which grenades were tossed inside the compound where he had been staying.
“And something just exploded beside me,” he said, in comments airing Monday in an Al Jazeera exclusive documentary. “I got tossed … 2 or 3 meters back,” he said. Despite challenges citing international law, the U.S. has long defended its treatment of prisoners at Guantánamo — even the youngest. The Strange Case of the Forgotten Gitmo Detainee - Raymond Bonner. Since being seized in a raid in Pakistan in 2002, Abu Zubaydah has had his life controlled by American officials, first at secret sites where he was tortured, and since 2006 in a small cell in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
And, thanks to one of the strangest—and perhaps most troubling—legal cases to grow out of the War on Terror, it appears he’s not going to be leaving anytime soon, which was exactly what the CIA always intended. Today, not even his lawyers understand what’s transpired behind closed doors in a Washington, D.C., courtroom. Guantanamo's Detainee Library Won't Carry a Guantanamo Detainee’s Acclaimed New Book. A Guantanamo detainee who just published a critically acclaimed book about his life in captivity won't get the opportunity to see his own book.
Nor will 121 of the detainee's fellow inmates. Guantanamo spokesman Captain Tom Gresback told VICE News that "at this time" the detainee library has no intention of purchasing Mohamedou Ould Slahi's memoir Guantanamo Diary, which cracked Amazon's top 100. "The detention center library at Guantanamo has more than 19,000 titles," Gresback said. "Books are provided as a means of intellectual stimulation. The Flawed Arguments Behind Not Releasing Guantanamo Footage. Abu Wa’el Dhiab, a 43-year old Syrian national, was among the six Guantanamo Bay prisoners freed last week and transferred to Uruguay after spending 13 years in U.S. detention.
He had been cleared for release since 2009, yet the husband and father of three found himself imprisoned several years longer in circumstances characterized by indefinite detention, humiliation and inhumane treatment. Release of Six Detainees After Twelve Years Highlights the Historic Evil of Guantánamo. The U.S. military overnight transferred six Guantánamo detainees to Uruguay.
All of them had been imprisoned since 2002 – more than 12 years. None has ever been charged with a crime, let alone convicted of any wrongdoing. They had all been cleared for release years ago by the Pentagon itself, but nonetheless remained in cages until today. Among the released detainees is Abu Wa’el Dhiab, a Lebanese-born Syrian national and father of four who was seized by the Pakistani police and turned over to the U.S. in 2002 for what was reportedly a large bounty. He was cleared for release in 2009 – five years ago – and has repeatedly gone on hunger strikes inside the camp to protest his treatment. As a result of the conditions inside the prison and the callous treatment he has received, Mr Dhiab’s health has now deteriorated to such an extent that he is confined to a wheelchair.
More than a decade has passed since Abu Wa’el was taken from us in the night. First Yemeni Detainee Released from Gitmo in Years. Press@ccrjustice.org November 20, New York – In response to the transfer of five men from Guantanamo, including our Yemeni client Abd Al Hakim Ghalib Ahmad Alhag, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the following statement: “We are grateful to the Republic of Georgia for offering our client a new home where he can begin to rebuild his life after more than a decade in Guantánamo without charge or trial.”
This is the first transfer of a Yemeni man to any country since 2010. Navy Nurse Who Refused Order to Force-Feed Hunger Striking Guantanamo Prisoners May Face Discipline. Abi Wa’el Dhiab, who an unidentified Navy medical officer refused to force-feed The first and only officer on the medical staff at Guantanamo Bay to conscientiously object to force-feeding prisoners on hunger strike has reportedly had his assignment ended.
He has been sent back to Naval Health Clinic New England, his “parent command,” while an investigation is completed, which may result in discipline or a court-martial. The Associated Press reported on August 26 that Navy Captain Maureen Pennington, who is “his commander at the network clinics, indicated, “An investigation has been conducted into his conduct while stationed at Guantanamo but it has not yet been determined if he will face any discipline.” He is “now on leave and military officials declined to provide details about him or any allegations he may face.” Technically, the nurse has already faced a level of punishment. Crider suggested that the nurse had carried out his orders and force-fed prisoners. Gitmo Spent $300,000 on Liquid Supplements While Denying a 'Mass Hunger Strike' Hunger-striking Guantanamo detainees apparently prefer to be force-fed vanilla Ensure.
At least that's what documents obtained exclusively by VICE News from the US military suggest. Guantanamo officials spent nearly $300,000 on 161,352 cans of liquid nutritional supplements, which detainees at the detention facility are forced to drink if they engage in hunger strikes. Nearly half the money — $142,345 — was spent on 3,875 cases of vanilla Ensure. Navy nurse refuses to force-feed Guantánamo captive - Guantánamo. In the first known rebellion against Guantánamo’s force-feeding policy, a Navy medical officer recently refused to continue managing tube-feedings of prison hunger strikers and was reassigned to “alternative duties.” A prison camp spokesman, Navy Capt. Tom Gresback, would not provide precise details but said Monday night that the episode had “no impact to medical support operations at the base.” “There was a recent instance of a medical provider not willing to carry out the enteral feeding of a detainee,” he said in an email.
“The matter is in the hands of the individual’s leadership.” Word of the refusal reached the outside world last week in a call from prisoner Abu Wael Dhiab to attorney Cori Crider of the London-based legal defense group Reprieve. Crider called the nurse, a man, the first known U.S. military conscience objector of the 18-month-long hunger strike in the prison camps, and said his dissent took “real courage. " Retired Army Brig. Uncovering the Cover Ups: Death Camp in Delta by Mark Denbeaux, Charles Church, Ryan K Gallagher, Adam Kirchner, Joshua Wirtshafter. This report details the failure of the Department of Justice (DOJ) to address the dramatic deficiencies in the findings issued by the Navy Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS) in the wake of the deaths on June 9, 2006 of three detainees held at the detention camp in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
The NCIS report, issued two years after the deaths of the detainees, essentially rubber-stamped statements made by camp officials about the manner and cause of the deaths of the three detainees before any investigation was conducted, and before any such conclusions could be known. It concealed repeated evidence of tampering with the crime scene, the fact that two of the men had been dead for hours before they were “discovered,” and the fact that the third lived for several hours afterwards, dying while ostensibly under medical care.
The NCIS report relies on evidence disputed by documents that the Center for Policy & Research Fellows easily obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests. 1. 2. New Report: NCIS Hid Medical Evidence About Guantanamo Suicides. The Senior Medical Officer (SMO) at Guantanamo who attended at least two of three high-profile “suicides” at Guantanamo nearly eight years ago concluded at the time that, contrary to the conclusions of a later government investigation, the detainees did not die by hanging but by “likely asphyxiation” from “obstruction” of the airway. Deconstructing the Campaign to Malign Award-Winning Article on Guantanamo "Suicides" While not the first article attacking Scott Horton's controversial Harpers' article, "The Guantanamo Suicides," Alex Koppelman's critique in Adweek on May 23 capped a long campaign by some media figures to impugn the veracity of Horton's investigation, if not the integrity of both Horton and Harper's Magazine.
Horton's article in January 2010 strongly criticized the Department of Defense (DoD) investigations into the June 10, 2006, deaths of three Guantanamo detainees, bringing forth new eyewitness testimony as to what occurred that terrible evening at the camp, calling into question the official narrative. For their part, Guantanamo authorities immediately labeled these deaths suicides. The Guantánamo “Suicides” Please enjoy Scott Horton’s feature from the March 2010 issue of Harper’s Magazine, winner of the 2010 National Magazine Award for Reporting. 1. Citing Truthout Report, UN Special Rapporteur "Looking Into" Guantanamo "Suicides" The detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in a photo taken on Oct. 4, 2007. Death in Guantanamo: Suicide or Dryboarding? On June 10, 2006, three Guantánamo prisoners were found dead in their cells. Two days later, a Department of Defense (DoD) news release described these deaths as suicides.
Releasing the Guantanamo Five? 1: Biographies of the Prisoners (amended) Releasing Taleban from Guantanamo Bay is on the agenda – in the context of finding a negotiated end to the conflict. Former Guantanamo Chief Prosecutor: David Hicks' War Crimes Charge Was a "Favor" for Australia. Lawyers argue Guantánamo captive so sick he should go home - Guantánamo. Guantánamo hunger strikers accuse US of manipulating force-feeding data. Abandoned in Guantánamo: Mohammed Taha Mattan, an Innocent Palestinian. As we approach the 12th anniversary of the opening of the Bush administration’s “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba (on January 11, 2014), it remains profoundly unacceptable that, of the remaining 164 prisoners, 84 were cleared for release nearly four years ago, in January 2010, by a high-level, inter-agency task force appointed by President Obama shortly after he took office in 2009.
These men are still held because of legislative obstacles raised by Congress in the National Defense Authorization Act, which are designed to prevent prisoners from being released, and because President Obama has been unwilling to spend political capital challenging Congress or bypassing lawmakers using a waiver in the NDAA. The president lifted his ban in response to intense criticism domestically and internationally, which had been prompted by the prisoners embarking upon a prison-wide hunger strike to remind the world of their plight. The case of Mohammed Taha Mattan. Wasted Opportunities: The Cost of Detention Operations at Guantánamo Bay [Infographic] Torture and Dual Loyalty. Medical, Military, and Ethics Experts Say Health Professionals Designed and Participated in Cruel, Inhumane, and Degrading Treatment and Torture of Detainees; Seek Policies To Assure Conformance With Ethical Principles.
Here Are The Secret Details Gitmo Warden Claimed Could Be Used By Al-Qaeda to Attack Prison. Score one for transparency. Guantanamo's attorney-client mail controversy - Human Rights. Military attorneys risk careers to criticize practices at Guantanamo. Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld had seen colleagues die in combat, commit suicide and suffer excruciating injuries.
Army Reservist Told He's Barred From Re-Enlistment for Speaking to Truthout About Guantanamo. Are “Boumediene rights” expiring? Tyler Cabot’s Important Profile of Guantánamo Prisoner Noor Uthman Muhammed for Esquire. Guantanamo Prisoner - Noor Uthman Muhammed Guantanamo Story. Guantanamo Bay Detainee Defense - What Happened at Guantanamo? Noor Uthman Muhammed Guantanamo Trial - Inside New Guantanamo Trial. Noor Uthman Muhammed Sentencing - Inside a Guantanamo Sentence hearing. Hiding Horrific Tales of Torture: Why The US Government Reached A Plea Deal with Guantánamo Prisoner Noor Uthman Muhammed. Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantánamo Memoirs: An interview with Colonel Morris Davis, Gitmo’s former chief prosecutor. Guantanamo camp burns through $900,000 a year per inmate. Inmates Rising: Worsening Gitmo Mass Hunger Strike in Their Own Words. Tracking the hunger strike in Guantanamo.
Guantanamo detainees’ hunger strikes will no longer be disclosed by U.S. military. Physician dismisses force-feeding concerns - Human Rights. Q&A: Defending Guantanamo prisoners - Features. Amid Gitmo strike, ex-detainee tells of force-feed. Ahmed Zuhair, Long-Term Former Hunger Striker at Guantánamo, Speaks. Guantánamo’s Long-Term Hunger Striker Should Be Sent Home. Meet the Guantánamo Prisoner Who Wants to be Prosecuted Rather than Rot in Legal Limbo. From Guantánamo, Younus Chekhouri Speaks About the Prison Clampdown: “Everyone is Traumatized by What Happened” From Guantánamo, Hunger Striker Abdelhadi Faraj Describes the Agony of Force-Feeding. Guantanamo Bay detainees and military clash; hunger strike continues. Guantánamo Bay hunger strike worsens in spite of Obama's promises. Detainees News. Guantanamo by the Numbers. 'In Gitmo I got 30 days in darkness for feeding iguanas' - ex-detainee
My Guantánamo Nightmare. On Guantánamo’s 10th Anniversary, British Ex-Prisoners Talk About Their Lives, and Call for the Release of Shaker Aamer. Guantanamo guard reunited with ex-inmates. Guantanamo Detainees Stage Hunger Strike to Protest Confinement Conditions. Waste wars: Captives weaponize bodily fluids - Guantánamo. Judge Orders Release Of Algerian From Guantánamo (But He’s Not Going Anywhere) Congress OK'ed Naji Deportation, Ex-Gitmo Prisoner Charges Drugging, Torture, Coercion to Spy.
Obama "Stealth Transfer" of Gitmo Prisoner, Algerian Forcibly Repatriated. Center for Constitutional Rights - ccrjustice.org. Hamdan v. Rumsfeld: Path to a Landmark Ruling : NPR - Cable Viewer. Guantanamo Abuses Amount to War Crimes. Center for Constitutional Rights. Information Clearing House: Inside Guantanamo. Plight of Guantanamo Detainees Brought to New York Stage. Mohammed el Gorani and Jérôme Tubiana · Diary: Guantánamo · LRB 15 December 2011. Yemeni Prisoner Muhammad Salih Dies At Guantánamo.
CCR and Mr. Awal Gul's Attorneys Respond to his Death at Guantanamo Bay. The UK businessmen trapped in Guantanamo. Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantanamo Memoirs: A timeline of a detainee’s life in captivity. Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantanamo Memoirs: Part 1, the endless interrogations of a Gitmo detainee, in his own words. Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantanamo Memoirs: Part 2, a Gitmo detainee disappears, and the torture gets worse.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s Guantanamo Memoirs: Part 3, a detainee describes his life at Gitmo after the torture stops. Guantanamo prisoner’s tragic letter. Latif Autopsy Report Ready: Public Resolution to Gitmo Mystery Endures. Guantanamo Prison's True Secret: Jason Leopold in Conversation With Andy Worthington. Guantanamo Detainees Who Cooperate With Government Could Be Removed From Indefinite Detention List. Doctors and Interrogators at Guantanamo Bay. Neglect of Medical Evidence of Torture in Guantánamo Bay: A Case Series. Interrogators Cite Doctors' Aid at Guantánamo Prison Camp. EXCLUSIVE: Controversial Drug Given to All Guantanamo Detainees Akin to "Pharmacologic Waterboarding"
Guantanamo Bay: A Medical Ethics–free Zone? The Detention Dilemma. Baseness: On Guantánamo. Outrage Over Pentagon's Guantanamo "Propaganda" Video. US Military Commissions.