Stories by Andy Worthington
Andy Worthington is a writer and historian, and author of The Guantánamo Files.
This latest release still leaves seven Uighurs in Guantánamo -- not to mention the 60 or so other prisoners who have been cleared for release
Posted on Nov 2, 2009, Source: Andy Worthington's Blog
There's no reason for any of these prisoners, several of whom were cleared under Bush, to be held for one minute longer.
Posted on Oct 5, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Like torture victims groomed for show trials throughout the centuries, Fouad al-Rabiah made up false stories under torture in the hopes of one day leaving Guantanamo.
Posted on Oct 5, 2009, Source: CounterPunch
The Obama administration has announced it will introduce a review system for the 600 prisoners at Bagram airbase. But a close look at the plan reveals cause for alarm.
Posted on Sep 16, 2009, Source: Andy Worthington's Blog
In Guantánamo, 225 men remain imprisoned, most of them never charged, ostensibly for some connection with these attacks.
Posted on Sep 11, 2009, Source: Comment Is Free
A Spanish newspaper reports that Judge Baltasar Garzón is pressing ahead with a case against attorneys who implemented torture at Guantánamo.
Posted on Sep 9, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The Obama administration is still refusing to release prisoners who have been found to pose no threat to the U.S. What is going on?
Posted on Aug 4, 2009, Source: Andy Worthington's Blog
Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld: "I am here today to offer a single, straightforward message: the military commission system is broken beyond repair."
Posted on Jul 13, 2009, Source: AlterNet
A death at Gitmo is always felt keenly in the Muslim world, creating tension for an administration that claims it is running a 'humane' facility.
Posted on Jun 5, 2009, Source: Andy Worthington's Blog
Obama needs to find the courage to resist the shrill opportunism of some of his least principled colleagues, and to order the Uighurs' release.
Posted on Jun 1, 2009, Source: AlterNet
The suspicious death of Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, who was tortured into lying about an Iraq-al Qaeda connection, raises a series of troubling questions.
Posted on May 13, 2009, Source: Andy Worthington's Blog
Capt. John Murphy led the prosecution of Salim Hamdan and is helping prosecute Omar Khadr, who was just 15 years old when he was captured.
Posted on May 6, 2009, Source: AlterNet
If the torture of the first "high-value detainee" was authorized by the Bybee memos, who ordered his torture 18 weeks before they were written?
Posted on Apr 26, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Under Obama's Justice Department, "change" means nothing more than turning "enemy combatants" to "Nobodies Formerly Known As Enemy Combatants."
Posted on Mar 17, 2009, Source: AlterNet
"I was abducted, hauled from one country to the next, tortured in medieval ways -- all orchestrated by the U.S. government."
Posted on Feb 23, 2009, Source: AlterNet
It's now up to Obama to decide whether to find homes for the Uighurs in the U.S., or to keep them at Gitmo until further notice.
Posted on Feb 20, 2009, Source: AlterNet
Mohammed El-Gharani arrived at Guantánamo when he was 14 years old and has spent a third of his life in prison.
Posted on Jan 16, 2009, Source: AlterNet
From Britney to Barney, any music can drive you mad if it's played enough. And unlike with physical torture, you can't mentally prepare yourself.
Posted on Dec 17, 2008, Source: CounterPunch
Are Khalid Sheikh Mohamed and his co-defendants focusing on their pursuit of martyrdom?
Posted on Dec 8, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The repatriation of Salim Hamdan to Yemen should hasten the demise of the U.S. prison camp.
Posted on Dec 3, 2008, Source: AlterNet
If President-elect Barack Obama truly plans to make good on his promise to close the American gulag, he should start by heeding this advice.
Posted on Nov 19, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The government's case against the Canadian child soldier, who was only 15 when he was imprisoned, is collapsing.
Posted on Oct 27, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Mohamed was brutally tortured after being rendered by the CIA to Morocco. "We're going to change your brain," one of his captors said.
Posted on Oct 16, 2008, Source: AlterNet
The story behind last week's stunning ruling on the fate of 17 Uighur prisoners at Guantanamo Bay.
Posted on Oct 11, 2008, Source: AlterNet
A day after the controversial Gen. Thomas Hartmann is relocated, Lt. Col. Darell Vandeveld resigns, citing "slipshod" prosecutions.
Posted on Oct 1, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Yesterday was the birthday of Guantanamo's child soldier and sole Canadian citizen, Omar Khadr, who has been held in isolation since he was 15.
Posted on Sep 20, 2008, Source: Andy Worthington's Blog
The latest charges brought forth at Gitmo are an alarming reminder of the misplaced zeal of the Military Commissions.
Posted on Sep 18, 2008, Source: Andy Worthington's Blog
More than two years after the government began investigating the suicides of three Guantanamo prisoners, disturbing questions remain.
Posted on Aug 30, 2008, Source: Andy Worthington's Blog
Biden doesn't have clean hands when it comes to Iraq, but he's been a leader in re-establishing the rule-of-law in Bush's terror war.
Posted on Aug 24, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Until now, the Bush administration has said it has the right to hold "enemy combatants" without charge or trial. The Hamdan sentence says otherwise.
Posted on Aug 13, 2008, Source: AlterNet
Widely considered a trial of the military commissions system itself, the Hamdan trial was a two-week exercise in government secrecy and propaganda.
Posted on Aug 6, 2008, Source: AlterNet
As the military commission trial of Salim Hamdan continues, justice and logic remain in short supply.
Posted on Jul 25, 2008, Source: Andy Worthington's Blog
A 5 to 4 ruling in the case of Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri legitimizes the president's right to indefinitely imprison "enemy combatants."
Posted on Jul 22, 2008, Source: Andy Worthington's Blog
A closer look at the first Guantánamo interrogation to be released on video reveals, above all, a "victimized and exploited" child.
Posted on Jul 16, 2008, Source: Andy Worthington's Blog
The ruling in
Parhat v. Gates invokes Lewis Carroll: "the fact the government has 'said it thrice' does not make an allegation true."
Posted on Jul 2, 2008, Source: Andy Worthington's Blog
Thursday's verdict is a resounding triumph for the importance of the law as a check on unfettered executive power and the caprice of politicians.
Posted on Jun 13, 2008, Source: Andy Worthington's Blog
While much reporting after last week's arraignments focused on KSM's desire to be executed, torture itself is on trial at Guantánamo Bay.
Posted on Jun 9, 2008, Source: Andy Worthington's Blog
Guantánamo prisoner Mohammed Hashim's delusions of grandeur have led the Pentagon to charge him with "providing material support for terrorism."
Posted on Jun 5, 2008, Source: Andy Worthington's Blog
With four more prisoners charged last week, the Bush administration seems intent on trying as many Guantánamo detainees as possible before November.
Posted on Jun 3, 2008, Source: Andy Worthington's Blog
A recent decision by a military judge shows how political squabbles make the wheels of justice revolve in slow motion at Guantánamo Bay.
Posted on May 28, 2008, Source: Andy Worthington's Blog
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