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Andy Worthington is the author of "The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America's Illegal Prison" (published by Pluto Press), as well as and "The Battle of the Beanfield" (2005) and "Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion" (2004). He is also the co-director (with Polly Nash) of the documentary film, "Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo." Visit his website at: www.andyworthington.co.uk.
(5 comments) SHARE Sunday, July 1, 2012 Polish Senator's Startling New Allegations about the CIA Torture Prison in Poland
In the long quest for accountability for those who ordered, authorized, or were complicit in the Bush administration's torture program, every avenue has been shut down within the US by the Obama administration, the Justice Department, and the courts. The only hope lies elsewhere in the world, specifically Poland, one of three European countries that hosted secret CIA prisons where "high-value detainees" were tortured.
(1 comments) SHARE Thursday, December 16, 2010 Ten Thoughts About Julian Assange and WikiLeaks
Ardent right-wingers (and Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein) have looked idiotic in their hysterical condemnations of the leaks. Sen. Joe Lieberman suggested that the New York Times and other news organisations, as well as WikiLeaks, should be investigated under the Espionage Act.
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, May 7, 2012 Torture: The Bush Administration on Trial
While Rodriguez -- like John Yoo, Jay S. Bybee and senior Bush administration officials, up to and including the president -- have never been criminally prosecuted, it is uncertain whether, overall, the apologists for torture are winning. Despite their protestations over the years, they have no proof that torture worked.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, October 2, 2009 A Truly Shocking Gitmo Story
Judge Confirms an Innocent Man Tortured to Make False Confessions.
In the ruling, to put it bluntly, it was revealed that the U.S. government tortured an innocent man to extract false confessions and then threatened him until he obligingly repeated those lies as though they were the truth.
SHARE Thursday, July 1, 2010 Activists' Letter to the Justice Department on Guantánamo, Torture and Accountability
A coalition of groups and individuals met with Portia Roberson, the head of the Office of Public Liaison at the Department of Justice. Our goal was to express our frustration with detention policies under the Obama administration and articulate steps we'd like to see the Justice Department take.
(10 comments) SHARE Thursday, November 29, 2012 Accountability for Bush's Torture
Obama came into office promising to ban the use of torture. His administration released 4 "torture memos" from 2003-2005. Thatwas the end of the Obama administration's flirtation with accountability. In court, every avenue that lawyers have tried to open up has been aggressively shut down by the government, citing spurious concerns for "national security".
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, June 14, 2010 UN Human Rights Council Discusses Secret Detention Report
The UN Human Rights Council is quietly investigating the United States for the first time, in connection with the illegal practice of holding prisoners without trial or charge in secret detention camps.
(2 comments) SHARE Sunday, March 14, 2010 What Torture Is and Why It's Illegal and Not "Poor Judgment"
It's now over three weeks since veteran Justice Department (DOJ) lawyer David Margolis dashed the hopes of those seeking accountability for the Bush administration's torturers, but this is a story of such profound importance that it must not be allowed to slip away.
SHARE Friday, July 16, 2010 UK Sought Rendition of British Nationals to Guantánamo; Tony Blair Directly Involved
The time for silence, and the time for secrecy are over. To clear the air, and to draw a line under this most lamentable period in our recent history, we need an inquiry presided over by someone who is able to "balance the need for national security against the need for transparency."
(2 comments) SHARE Monday, October 5, 2009 US House Votes Draconian Gitmo Restrictions
The US House has voted (unconstitutionally) to forbid release or transfer of the people who are presently being illegally detained at Guantanamo, and forbidding release of photos documenting torture and abuse.
SHARE Friday, October 22, 2010 Judge Denies Guantánamo Prisoner's Habeas Petition, Ignores Torture in Secret CIA Prisons
In examining his habeas corpus petition, Judge Walton appeared to remain blissfully unaware that, despite being, at most, a lowly foot soldier, al-Bihani was held in a variety of secret CIA prisons in Afghanistan before his transfer to Guantánamo, where he was subjected to torture.
SHARE Friday, December 28, 2012 Torture, Torture Everywhere
Americans who remain silent in the face of torture & assassinations done by their government in their name are fully responsible for these war crimes.
(1 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 22, 2010 Fayiz Al-Kandari, a Kuwaiti Aid Worker in Guantanamo, Loses His Habeas Petition
For Fayiz al-Kandari, one of the last two Kuwaitis in Guantánamo, American justice has always been an oxymoron. Although he has maintained - for nearly nine years - that he is an innocent man, and although the U.S. government has no evidence against him.
SHARE Wednesday, January 11, 2012 Guantanamo Prisoners Stage Peaceful Protest and Hunger Strike on 10th Anniversary of the Opening of the Prison
Prisoners were concerned to let the outside world know that they still reject the injustice of their imprisonment, and feel that it is particularly important to let everyone know this, when the US government, under President Obama, is trying to persuade the world that "everything is OK" at Guantánamo, and that the prison is a humane, state of the art facility.
(4 comments) SHARE Thursday, January 20, 2011 Countering Pentagon Propaganda About Prisoners Released From Guantánamo
The United States cannot, in all honesty, claim that, in some instances, what happened to the men after their release from Guantánamo was not determined by what happened to them while they were held -- and brutalized -- in US custody.
SHARE Wednesday, September 23, 2009 Court Allows Return of Guantánamo Prisoners to Torture
A Bush-appointed appeals judge has overturned a lower court ruling on behalf of 13 Chinese Muslim prisoners at Guantanamo. The lower court ruling would have given the 13 the right to a court appearance, but if the Appeals Court ruling stands, these men will be rendered to the tiny Pacific island of Palau, where their torture may continue.
SHARE Monday, June 14, 2010 UN Human Rights Council Discusses Secret Detention Report
The UN Human Rights Council is quietly investigating the United States for the first time, in connection with the illegal practice of holding prisoners without trial or charge in secret detention camps.
SHARE Tuesday, November 24, 2009 Judge Orders Release of Algerian from Guantánamo (But He's Not Going Anywhere)
The judge's ruling is still classified, but it seems probable that the ruling will refute the government's claims that its rag-bag of hearsay, innuendo, and snippets of intelligence is coherent enough to constitute real evidence. Why does Obama's Justice Dept continue to defend the fiction that the prisoners at Guantanamo represent a terrorist threat to Americans?