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CIA torture victim denied his day in US court
A U.S. federal appeals court has upheld a refusal to hear the case of a Lebanese-born German man who was detained and tortured by the CIA for five months. http://snipurl.com/1by6r From Information... ...
Human Rights Watch lists 39 secret CIA detainees
A human rights group published the names of 38 men and one woman it believes have been locked up in secret overseas facilities, and asked President Bush to disclose the identity and fate of all detainees... ...
U.S. Blasted for Treatment of Detainees
The U.N. human rights chief expressed concern Wednesday at recent U.S. legislative and judicial actions that she said leave hundreds of detainees without any way to challenge their indefinite imprisonment.... ...
Fate of Many "Ghost Prisoners" Still Unknown
The US government should account for all "ghost prisoners" detained by the CIA in secret prisons around the world, urges a new report by Human Rights Watch. The report, "Ghost Prisoner: Two Years in Secret... ...
The MCA, Gitmo detainees and habeas corpus
CounterPunch by Marjorie Cohn 02/28/07 Last week, in Boumediene v. Bush, two judges on a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the provision of the Military Commissions Act of... ...
US blasted for treatment of detainees
South Florida Sun-Sentinel 02/28/07 Th e U.N. human rights chief expressed concern Wednesday at recent U.S. legislative and judicial actions that she said leave hundreds of detainees without any way to... ...
Inside Navy's secret brig
Officials at the Navy's brig in Hanahan developed elaborate plans to dodge public scrutiny of its operations to detain enemy combatants, plans that include destroying "critical info," scrubbing public... ...
New Light Shed on CIA's "Black Site" Prisons
Human Rights Watch has identified 38 people who may have been held by the CIA and remain unaccounted for. The number of detainees held in such facilities over nearly five years remains classified but is... ...
Testing the line between despotism and a free society
Boston Globe by Scot Lehigh 02/27/07 Habeas corpus is now headed back to the US Supreme Court, in a case that will prove a fundamental test of US justice. Will the Roberts court uphold one of the oldest... ...
Court condemns detainees to detention without review
Truthout by Stephen F. Rohde The Writ of Habeas Corpus, traced to the Magna Carta of 1215, protects people from arbitrary arrest, disappearance and indefinite detention without charge. … Yet, last week,... ...