The talk today will be this: The emergence of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch has underscored the potential complications in carrying out the executive order President Obama signed Thursday that the detention center be shut down within a year. The militant, Said Ali al-Shihri, is suspected […]
We seem to be seeing a lot of these stories anymore: A Hong Kong cargo ship loaded with 36,000 tonnes of wheat bound for Iran was hijacked on Tuesday by pirates in the Gulf of Aden, near the Yemeni coast. The latest example of piracy came as a Saudi supertanker, seized by pirates on Monday […]
Here’s an interesting article from The Guardian website, thought you might wish to read. Here is also a link to an audio file from BBC Radio4 with the full account of a detainies complaints and an interview with Colleen Grathy… very very interesting. James Sturcke Friday March 3, 2006 A man told today of the […]
From BBC News A court in the US has been asked to ban the practice of force-feeding detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The case is being brought on behalf of Mohammed Bawazir, a Yemeni who has been held there since 2002. The action is the first test for a new law explicitly outlawing torture of […]