Search Results for indefinite detention is torturetag:www.firejohnyoo.net,2024:/cgi-bin/MTOS-5.2.13//feed/indefinite detention is torture2024-03-29T10:09:32ZMovable Type 5.2.1398198'The Israeli legal system has repeatedly litigated and legitimated the torture of Palestinian detainees,' wrote Ayah Kutmahtag:www.firejohnyoo.net,2024://10.37282024-01-03T20:01:04Z2024-01-03T20:22:41ZCurt Wechsler, The World Can't Waithttp://worldcantwait.org
"The Israeli military judicial system, tied to the 1967 occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, is over 50 years old, and the Guantánamo military commissions, a post-9/11 creation, are over 20. They are innovations justified by belabored legal rationales....
Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied Guantanamo Prisonerstag:www.firejohnyoo.net,2023://10.37112023-07-27T16:04:57Z2023-07-27T16:28:12ZCurt Wechsler, The World Can't Waithttp://worldcantwait.org
Illegal detention is torture for its victims; compounded by delayed judgment, it can be deadly. The history of neglect and passivity ascribed to treatment of prisoners in the US Naval Base in Cuba is insidious; the facility Amnesty International called...
FRIDAY FORUM - WHY IS GUANTANAMO STILL OPEN?tag:www.firejohnyoo.net,2023://10.37032023-01-04T17:10:29Z2023-01-04T17:25:49ZCurt Wechsler, The World Can't Waithttp://worldcantwait.org
A group of thought leaders and activists on the issue of Guantanamo discuss its dreadful history, how it clashes with America's stated ideals, and the prospects for its closure.Joining longtime ICUJP member and "Close Guantanamo" event organizer Jon Krampner...
Journey to Guantánamo: tag:www.firejohnyoo.net,2022://10.36962022-07-22T19:11:58Z2022-07-22T19:46:21ZCurt Wechsler, The World Can't Waithttp://worldcantwait.org
A Week in America's Notorious Penal ColonyA journalist heads to the US naval base and detention center, seeking out truths we're not meant to see. By Moustafa Bayoumi, July 11, 2022 Even if it's your first visit to Guantánamo, you...
Bush opened it. Obama failed to close it. Trump promised to keep it open. Now, it's Biden's turn to decide.tag:www.firejohnyoo.net,2021://10.36702021-02-01T20:20:39Z2021-02-01T20:40:50ZCurt Wechsler, The World Can't Waithttp://worldcantwait.org
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/dangerous-ideas/202102/psychologists-should-now-lead-the-call-close-guant-namo Psychologists Should Now Lead the Call to Close Guantánamo Roy Eidelson Last week, Mansoor Adayfi, Moazzam Begg, Lakhdar Boumediane, Sami Al Hajj, Ahmed Errachidi, Mohammed Ould Slahi, and Moussa Zemmouri published an open letter in the New York...
Justice Now: Close Guantanamo & End Torture Rallytag:www.firejohnyoo.net,2020://10.36412020-01-02T04:21:22Z2020-01-02T04:23:05ZCurt Wechsler, The World Can't Waithttp://worldcantwait.org
This January 11th, 2020 will mark the 18th year anniversary of Guantanamo's opening in the War on Terror in 2002. Witness Against Torture will join other human rights organization in once again calling attention to the brutality of the...
What the C.I.A.'s Torture Program Looked Like to the Torturedtag:www.firejohnyoo.net,2019://10.36392019-12-05T05:51:50Z2019-12-05T06:53:19ZCurt Wechsler, The World Can't Waithttp://worldcantwait.org
Drawings done in captivity by the first prisoner known to undergo "enhanced interrogation" portray his account of what happened to him in vivid and disturbing ways. Abu Zubaydah suffers indefinite detention -- in itself a form of torture -- while...
Unlawful Detention of U.S. 'War on Terror' Prisoners Must Ceasetag:www.firejohnyoo.net,2018://10.35932018-04-02T20:11:32Z2018-04-03T00:06:54ZCurt Wechsler, The World Can't Waithttp://worldcantwait.org
A California Law Review debate about the treatment of detainees during wartime will likely include discussion of the torture of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Prison Camp, where 800 years of Habeas Corpus law -- the right to know why you...
Take Torture Off the Tabletag:www.firejohnyoo.net,2016://10.35082016-09-21T17:32:50Z2016-09-26T18:16:16ZCurt Wechsler, The World Can't Waithttp://worldcantwait.org
"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons," wrote Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky in The House of the Dead. The cruel, inhumane, and degrading treatment -- torture -- inflicted on disfranchised subjects, from Pelican Bay in California...
Why Guantanamo Still Matterstag:www.firejohnyoo.net,2016://10.35032016-08-18T19:20:22Z2016-08-18T20:34:21ZCurt Wechsler, The World Can't Waithttp://worldcantwait.org
There are 61 illegally detained men left at Guantanamo, including 18 uncharged "forever prisoners." Not a single senior official has yet faced accountability for the systematic torture of detainees.Guantánamo's ill-conceived structures cannot provide justice. "Instead of fair trials in federal court,...
Ba Odah v. Obamatag:www.firejohnyoo.net,2016://10.34872016-06-20T17:43:14Z2016-06-20T20:39:02ZCurt Wechsler, The World Can't Waithttp://worldcantwait.org
Make no mistake: indefinite detention is torture. Just ask Tariq Ba Odah."There is no shortage of blame to go around for Guantánamo's continued operation," wrote Omar Farah, NYU Press. "In Tariq's view, the courts, lawmakers, and the president are all part of the same...
Good Law is Not Made in Secrettag:www.firejohnyoo.net,2016://10.34742016-04-14T20:42:46Z2016-04-26T04:31:16ZCurt Wechsler, The World Can't Waithttp://worldcantwait.org
"The Justice Department recently released another of the now-notorious Office of Legal Counsel memos written by John Yoo -- memos that authorized torture, warrantless wiretapping, and indefinite detention," reports Patrick Toomey for justsecurity.org. "The new memo, written as a 'letter'...
To Hell With Obama's Legacytag:www.firejohnyoo.net,2016://10.34562016-01-21T00:37:01Z2016-01-21T00:40:57ZCurt Wechsler, The World Can't Waithttp://worldcantwait.org
Closing Guantánamo is seen as a legacy issue for Barack Obama. Yet, while the media focuses on the impact his failure to close it will have on Obama's place in history, there is no consideration of the long-term physical...
When IGNORE-ance = Death, Silence Is Not An Optiontag:www.firejohnyoo.net,2016://10.34492016-01-06T20:39:32Z2016-01-11T19:10:59ZCurt Wechsler, The World Can't Waithttp://worldcantwait.org
On Monday January 11, the 14th anniversary of the opening of the U.S. prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, a group of people in orange jumpsuits representing the Guantanamo prisoners will walk thru busy downtown San Francisco. People walking alongside them will...