Thomson Reuters Saudi Arabia is set to release several Yemeni ex-Guantanamo detainees who have completed a deradicalization program. The move is likely to anger President Donald Trump, who has voiced his opposition to releasing Guantanamo detainees. The move comes at an uncertain period for both the US and Saudi Araba in the Middle East. RIYADH […]
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US Military to seize, burn Guantánamo Bay detainees’ art (PHOTOS)
Published time: 18 Nov, 2017 13:28 The US Military has decided to seize artwork produced by detainees at Guantánamo Bay Navy Base and will no longer release prisoner artwork to the public. The detainees’ attorneys have said that the ultimate plan is to destroy it. A practice has been in place for years whereby detainees […]
Tom ‘two-dinners’ Watson joins Guantanamo solidarity hunger strike
Published time: 17 Oct, 2017 11:45 Labour’s deputy leader Tom Watson has gone on a hunger strike in solidarity with prisoners in Guantanamo Bay. Watson will go without food and will drink only water as he protests against the treatment of Ahmed Rabbani and Khalid Qasim in the US-controlled prison in Cuba. According to reports, […]
Like in Guantanamo? Turkey introduces court uniforms for failed coup defendants & terror suspects
Published time: 6 Aug, 2017 18:31 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said defendants in the trials linked to last year’s failed coup as well as terrorism suspects will now have to wear a standard brownish prison uniform, following controversy in which an accused soldier wore a t-shirt saying ‘hero’ in court. The ‘hero’ T-shirt […]
U.S. board refuses to release so-called 9/11 ’20th hijacker’ from Guantanamo Bay
A board reviewing the status of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay has decided against releasing a Saudi who U.S. authorities believe narrowly avoided becoming one of the hijackers in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack. CBC | World News