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Znet Article Worthington: Afghan Nobody Faces Trial by Military Commission

Znet Article, January, 08 2010 Andy Worthington
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On Wednesday evening, the Associated Press reported that, in court filings, Justice Department lawyers stated that Attorney General Eric Holder has decided that a sixth Guantánamo prisoner -- an Afghan named Obaidullah -- will be put forward for ...

Znet Article Worthington: No Escape From Guantánamo: The Latest Habeas Rulings

Znet Article, September, 10 2009 Andy Worthington
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A month ago, rulings made by District Court judges in the habeas corpus appeals of prisoners held at Guantánamo seemed, for the most part, to confirm that the courts were uniquely placed to deliver justice to the prisoners after their long years ...

Znet Article Worthington: Guantánamo As Hotel California: You Can Check Out Any Time You Like, But You Can Never Leave

Znet Article, August, 04 2009 Andy Worthington
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Imagine if you were imprisoned for seven years without charge or trial, and then a judge ruled that the government’s case against you consisted solely of unreliable allegations made by other prisoners who were tortured, coerced, bribed or suffer...

Znet Article Worthington: Guantánamo’s Long-Term Hunger Striker Should Be Sent Home

Znet Article, March, 20 2009 Andy Worthington
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Ahmed Zuhair, a 35-year old Saudi prisoner at Guantánamo -- and a father of ten -- has been on a hunger strike since June 2005, at the start of a fraught summer at the prison in which up to 200 prisoners (over a third of Guantánamo’s total pop...

Znet Article Worthington: Guantanamo: The Definitive Prisoner List

Znet Article, March, 05 2009 Andy Worthington
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The first definitive list of the 779 prisoners who have been held in the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

Znet Article Worthington: Who’s Running Guantánamo?

Znet Article, February, 10 2009 Andy Worthington
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On January 20, the answer to that question seemed obvious. In his inaugural speech, with George W. Bush standing just behind him, President Obama pointedly pledged to “reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals” -- a clear in...

Znet Article Worthington: How Cooking For The Taliban Gets You Life In Guantánamo

Znet Article, January, 31 2009 Andy Worthington
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Those of us who prefer justice to arbitrary and unaccountable detention without charge or trial were delighted when, last week, Barack Obama fulfilled a long-stated promise and issued a presidential order stating that Guantánamo will be closed â€...

Znet Article Worthington: Seven Years of Guantánamo, Seven Years of Torture and Lies

Znet Article, January, 11 2009 Andy Worthington
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Seven years ago, on January 11, 2002, when photos of the first orange-clad detainees to arrive at a hastily-erected prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba were made available to the world’s press, defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld reacted to the widesp...

Znet Article Worthington: Why Guantánamo Must Be Closed: Advice for Barack Obama

Znet Article, November, 17 2008 Andy Worthington
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On Sunday, in his first television interview since winning the Presidential election, Barack Obama repeated his campaign pledge to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay and to ban the use of torture by US forces. Speaking on 60 Minutes, he explained,...

Znet Article Worthington: In a plea from Guantánamo, Binyam Mohamed talks of “betrayal” by the UK

Znet Article, September, 11 2008 Andy Worthington
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On September 10, the Independent featured an article about Guantánamo prisoner and British resident Binyam Mohamed, which included exclusive extracts from a statement that Binyam made on August 11 during a visit by Cori Crider, staff attorney for ...

Znet Article Worthington: Rendered to Egypt for torture, Mohammed Saad Iqbal Madni is released from Guantánamo

Znet Article, September, 05 2008 Andy Worthington
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News that three more prisoners have been released from Guantánamo is cause for celebration, as all three men should never have been held in the first place. In a report to follow, I’ll look at the stories of the two Afghans released -- one a simpl...

Znet Article Worthington: British Court Rules Against UK and US in Case of Guantánamo Torture Victim Binyam Mohamed

Znet Article, August, 31 2008 Andy Worthington
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In the lawless world of Guantánamo -- and the United States’ even murkier network of secret prisons run by or on behalf of the CIA -- it has taken six years and four months for British resident Binyam Mohamed to secure anything resembling justice.

Znet Article Worthington: Guantánamo Suicide Report: Truth or Travesty?

Znet Article, August, 27 2008 Andy Worthington
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Two years and two months after three prisoners at Guantánamo died, apparently as the result of a coordinated suicide pact, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), which has been investigating the deaths ever since the three long-term hung...

Znet Article Worthington: “Screwed up” and “abused”: Omar Khadr’s Canadian interrogation at Guantánamo

Znet Article, July, 16 2008 Andy Worthington
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As the Abu Ghraib scandal demonstrates, a photo is worth a thousand words -- even if, as Errol Morris’ newly-released documentary Standard Operating Procedure demonstrates, those words are sometimes what the viewer wishes to see, rather than what ...

Znet Article Worthington: Italy’s Forgotten Residents in Guantánamo

Znet Article, June, 24 2008 Andy Worthington
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Reprieve, the London-based legal action charity that represents 35 of the 273 prisoners still in Guantánamo, has just released a report, The Forgotten Italian Residents in Guantánamo Bay, in an attempt to find a solution to the plight of six of it...

Znet Article Worthington: The Insignificance of “al-Qaeda operative” Abu Zubaydah

Znet Article, April, 25 2008 Andy Worthington
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Abu Zubaydah, an alleged senior al-Qaeda operative, has been held without charge or trial as a “high-value detainee” for over six years, first in secret CIA custody, and then in Guantánamo, while battles have raged within the administration over h...

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