World
Rooting Out Prison Corruption In Afghanistan Poses A Major Test For Obama »
Amid the near-constant speculation over President Barack Obama's strategy for Afghanistan, there appears to be virtually universal consensus that rooting out corruption has to be a top priority if the US and its NATO allies are to have a "credible partner" in the Afghan government. But corruption takes many forms and is found at many levels. To the lawyers of Human Rights First (HRF), understanding the relationship between corruption, how prisoners are treated and the...
November 27 2009 / 1 comment / Read More »Law
Judge Orders Algerian Released From Gitmo; But Detainee Is Not Going Anywhere »
On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler ordered the release from Guantánamo of Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed, a 48-year old Algerian, after granting...
Nov 25 2009 / 1 comment / Read More »World
British Inquiry: Blair Conspired with Bush as Early as 2002 to Plot Iraq Invasion »
Most Americans are blissfully in the dark about it, but across the Atlantic in the UK, a commission reluctantly established by Prime Minister Gordon...
Nov 24 2009 / 8 comments / Read More »Law
Justice Department Pointlessly Gags Guantanamo Attorney »
One of the saddest stories in Guantánamo is that of Abdul Hamid al-Ghizzawi, a Libyan married to an Afghan woman and with a newly-born...
Nov 22 2009 / 1 comment / Read More »
