Posted on May 2nd, 2008 by Marian Houk
A Sudanese journalist working for Al-Jazeera Television was released from Guantanamo prison camp yesterday after six years of detention and sixteen months on a hunger strike. He was never charged with any crime.
Upon his arrival in Sudan, he was carried off the plane on a stretcher, and taken straight to the hospital.
AP quoted him [...]
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Filed under: Guantanamo, Journalism and Journalists, Sudan, USA
Posted on October 30th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The UN’s independent investigator on human rights in the fight against terrorism, Martin Scheinin, said in a report released Monday to the UNGA in NY that he’s concerned about U.S. detention practices, military courts and interrogation techniques. He urged the U.S. government to end the CIA practice of extraordinary rendition, in which terrorism suspects [...]
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Filed under: Guantanamo, Human Rights, Sanctions, Torture
Posted on September 15th, 2007 by Marian Houk
The Associated Press reported recently that “Guards at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp found two prisoners sporting unauthorized underwear, and the U.S. military is investigating to determine how they got the contraband. Both prisoners were caught wearing Under Armour briefs and one also had on a Speedo bathing suit, items the military said were [...]
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Filed under: Guantanamo, Human Rights, International Law
Posted on March 1st, 2007 by Marian Houk
At what was just a routinely-scheduled press conference with journalists on Wednesday, while she was visiting UNHQ/NY, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour of Canada (former judge, and former chief prosecutor at the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia) said a number of interesting things — all in response to questions from [...]
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Filed under: Former Yugoslavia, Guantanamo, Human Rights, International Court of Justice - ICJ, International Law, Iraq
