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Guantanamo
BBC News: Video of Omar Khadr interrogation released

Amnesty calls for Omar Khadr to be moved to Canada


Torture
Guardian: MPs call for inquiry into MI5 role in torture

New book reveals use of 'torture' by CIA


42 days
Guardian: Opposition by former head of MI5 should halt 42 days bill in the House of Lords


Renditions
Irish Times: UN to question Irish government over renditions


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Previously...42 Days

BBC News: Ex-MI5 chief attacks 42 days

The Independent: Labour senior peers oppose 42 days

Rendition
The Independent: MPs accuse Washington of lying over torture flights

The Guardian: The secretary general of the Council of Europe speaks out against renditions

Amnesty: New Amnesty report condemns governments of complicity in 'torture flights'

FT: European role in secret US flights criticised

Guantanamo
Amnesty: Take action for UK resident Binyam Mohammed

Tunisia
Amnesty: New report criticises Tunisia for its record on torture and unfair trials

Waterboarding
Guardian: It’s torture – just ask Christopher Hitchens

Full article in Vanity Fair / Watch the video

Guantanamo
BBC News: US court rules detainee must be freed, transferred or receive a fresh hearing

Amnesty: Sami Al Hajj thanks Amnesty activists for the 10,000 letters he received in Guantanamo

NY Times: Interrogation techniques came from Chinese, Korean War manual

Torture
Canadian Press: US ruling gives green light to sending foreigners off to be tortured

Calgary Herald: Canadian Maher Arar slams ruling

BBC News: Former Abu Ghraib detainees sue US firms over torture

TAKE ACTION for Binyam Mohammed

UK resident Binyam Mohammed's case is becoming increasingly urgent

Guantanamo
FT: Former Navy legal chief condemns Guantanamo cruelty

Read George Monbiot on Guantanamo and secret detention centres

Guardian: Protestors greet George Bush in orange boiler suits

ITV

BBC: Guantanamo interrogation policies condemned


Military Trials
Guantanamo detainees win right of appeal

Waterboarding
Read the BBC's examination of waterboarding
 
BBC News
David Davis resigns from Commons
He is to force a by-election in his Haltemprice and Howden constituency which he will fight on the issue of the new 42-day terror detention limit.

The Guardian

Diane Abbott's 42-days speech
The Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP's speech last night was hailed by the Tory who followed her, David Davies, as 'one of the finest speeches I have heard since being elected to the House of Commons'. Here is what she said.

There were no deals over 42 day vote, insists Brown

Guardian Editorial: A shaming victory

This risks strangling freedom without any security gain
The narrow majority on 42 days makes it a bad day for British democracy, even if the bill has been amended into futility

The Times
42-day detention: bribes' and concessions that got DUP on side
Sweeteners for Northern Ireland and a peerage for the Rev Ian Paisley, dropping sanctions on Cuba and the governorship of Bermuda were among the offers the Government is thought to have used to secure Gordon Brown’s victory in yesterday’s vote.

42-day terror law faces 'very rough ride' in Lords
Lord Goldsmith, the former attorney-general under Tony Blair, also accused the Prime Minister of having pushed the measure through the Commons yesterday purely to show his "political virility", echoing a widespread view that it has little chance of making it onto the statute books in its present form.

42-day detention: David Cameron lost — but gamble may still pay off


The Independent
Brown wins 42-day detention vote by a whisker

Brown triumphs on terror – but then he is stopped in his tracks
Gordon Brown won a hollow victory for his new 42-day anti-terrorism powers last night when he was forced to rely on the votes of nine Democratic Unionist Party MPs during a day of backroom deals and concessions.

Brown wheels out the weak and wounded
Even wheeling out the walking wounded was not enough. Gordon Brown was forced to resort to blatant bribes and an alleged deal with the nine Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) members to save his skin in the biggest Commons cliff-hanger since the days of John Major's government.
 
Guantanamo
British detainee, Binyam Mohamed to face US military court
The Independent

Read Clive Stafford Smith's comment on piece Binyam Mohamed
The Independent

Guantanamo
A new report by Human Rights Watch finds the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo is unnecessarily harsh and is having a damaging effect on their mental health

Guardian: Families sue over Guantanamo suicides

Military Commissions
The Show Trial begins
Read Amnesty's latest report

Reuters: Military trials fall short of international standards according to Louise Arbour, UN Commissioner for Human Rights

42 days
'Concessions' planned on 42 days
BBC News

Read Simon Jenkins' comment piece on the Government’s failure to make a case
The Guardian

Rendition
UK MP makes complaint about use of UK territory, Diego Garcia for renditions
The Guardian


Secret Detention
The US has been accused of using 'floating prisons' to hold detainees
 The Guardian

More on the prison ships
The Guardian

Reprieve name missing detainees
The Guardian

Guantanamo

Canada illegally handed over information on Omar Khadr to the US
BBC News

Who is Omar Khadr?
Amnesty

Amnesty calls for the closure of Guantanamo this year
Google News

Read Amnesty’s State of the World's Human Rights report
Amnesty

Torture
Medical Foundation criticises the fallacy of the 'Ticking Time Bomb' argument
Torture Care
 
 
Guantanamo
US 'stuck' with Guantanamo
BBC News

Download Amnesty’s framework for ending illegal detention in the ‘war on terror’ (download as Word file)

International parliamentarians meet US authorities over illegal detentions
Amnesty link

UK MP says the promises to close Guantanamo are not enough
Amnesty link


Torture
FBI agents objected to interrogation techniques
USA Today

42 Days
Labour MPs table amendment to the 42 days Bill
The Guardian
 

'Fundamental flaws' in 42-day detention plan
"Gordon Brown should abandon plans to take the "extraordinary step" of detaining terror suspects without charge for up to 42 days because the proposals are fundamentally flawed, a committee of MPs and peers advised yesterday..."
The Guardian

Brown vows to 'win' over 42 days
"Gordon Brown says he wants to "win the argument" in Parliament over his plans to extend the pre-charge detention limit for terror suspects to 42 days..."
BBC News

Parliamentarians reject 42-day plan
"The committee says it is "astonished" that ministers have "completely failed" to answer the substantial case against the extension made in its earlier report..."
epolitix.com

Guantanamo
Former detainee 'carries out suicide bombing'
BBC News

The survivors' stories leave no doubt: Guantánamo makes us all less safe

Read George Monbiot's comment piece
The Guardian

So much for the rights of man
For more information about life in Guanatanamo
The Guardian

Judge may delay trial of child detainee
"Lawyers for Canadian-born Omar Khadr, now 21, have accused the US government of scuttling a 2006 investigation into his allegations of abuse at Guantánamo..."
The Guardian

Torture
US judge to review CIA 'torture' memo
Reuters

 Guantánamo
Nine freed from Guantánamo, the first releases of 2008
Amnesty link

Al-Jazeera journalist freed
BBC News link

British resident calls for disclosure of evidence
Lawyers acting for Binyam Mohamed, a British resident who faces a military trial in Guantánamo, have launched a legal attempt to make the UK government release evidence for his defence
BBC News link

Torture
Cheney aide called to give testimony on use of torture by US
Reuters link

MI5 knew about torture of UK Briton
Times Online link

One million people watch 'The Stuff of Life
Over a million people watched 'The Stuff of Life', the new Unsubscribe film on waterboarding, in the first week alone. Incredibly, it was the 36th most viewed film on YouTube last week. We want to keep the debate going so please forward the www.unsubscribe-me.org link to your friends and colleagues and join in the debate on YouTube
Waterboarding video on YouTube


UK accused of outsourcing torture
Four Britons have accused MI5 of collusion in their torture in Pakistan
Guardian link

'Endemic, widespread and systematic' use of torture
Guardian link

Iranian Diplomat tortured by CIA
An Iranian diplomat has claimed the CIA tortured him after he was abducted in Iraq
BBC News link


42 days
The UK government is under increasing pressure over 42 days
Times Online link

Unsubscribe in the news
Amnesty’s new film on waterboarding released (through this site).
Boing Boing
The Telegraph
The Guardian
The Independent
Google / Press Association
Monsters and Critics
Belfast Telegraph


Guantanamo
Torture victim’s records lost
The Guardian


New book reveals top Bush aids pushed for Guantanamo torture
The Guardian
The Telegraph

UK detainees to sue British government
The Times


42 Days
Britain’s most senior prosecutor questions 42 days
The Guardian

Ex head of MI5 blocked from giving evidence
Financial Times


Guantanamo

Another CIA detainee facing death penalty trial by military commission
Amnesty US

New Amnesty report released on Omar Khadr, the child ‘enemy combatant’ facing military commission
Amnesty.org


Rendition
Extraordinary Rendition creator says the procedure is unreliable
Globe and Mail


Torture
Barack Obana would ‘immediately review’ torture
Independent

US interrogation memo made public
BBC News


42 Days
Cabinet split on 42 days
The Guardian
 
 
No deportation to torture states
The British government has lost a legal ruling that would have allowed them to deport Islamic preacher Abu Qatada to Jordan on the grounds that evidence allegedly obtained under torture may form part of a future trial in Jordan.
BBC News link

Amnesty has long campaigned against the ‘memoranda of understanding’ that the British government has signed with states that have been accused of committing torture
Amnesty link

Renditions
Jordan has been accused of playing a key role in the US rendition programme
Ft.com link


42 days
Another former minister opposes the extension of pre-charge detention from 28 to 42 days
Daily Mail link


42 days

The Counter Terrorism Bill, which includes the proposed extension of pre-charge detention from 28 to 42 days will be scrutinised in detail at the committee stage
BBC News Online link

Leading figures attack 42 days
Many leading figures have spoken out against 42 days
Independent link

Unnecessary
Britain’s top prosecutor says 42 days is unnecessary
Times Online

Cabinet Split
Splits are emerging in the cabinet over the proposed extension of pre-charge detention from 28 to 42 days
Guardian link

Thanks to everyone who has signed the not-a-day-longer petition. If you haven’t yet, it’s not too late!

Rendition
The UN Special Rapporteur on torture, Manfred Nowak, has stated that several former detainees have told him they were held on the British Pacific Territory of Diego Garcia before being transferred to secret detention centres elsewhere
Guardian link

 
Military commissions update
More military commissions are taking place at Guantanamo. Two of the detainees, Mohammed Jawad and Omar Khadr were under the age of 18 when they were first detained
More on Mohammed Jawad
Download Amnesty briefing (PDF)


New Amnesty Report
From Abu Ghraib to secret CIA custody: The case of Khaled al-Maqtari
Download the PDF report about the global reach of the USA’s secret detention network

UK Terrorism Bill
The Home Secretary was accused of of "failing to persuade her own backbenchers" after rumours that the second reading of the counter terrorism legislation would be postponed.
Read more in The Guardian
 
Bush commits to use of waterboarding

President Bush has vetoed a bill which would have banned the CIA from using waterboarding and other ‘enhanced interrogation techniques.
BBC News: House of Representatives fails to overturn veto
Amnesty’s response


Australia calls for closure of Guantanamo
The Australian Government has called for the closure of Guantanamo Bay. This is a reversal of their previous position and Australia has been a close US ally with regard to their 'war on terror' policies.
Full story in The Australian News


Campaigners arrested for Diego Garcia protest
Two British campaigners were arrested at sea off Diego Garcia after protesting against the use of the islands for rendition, amongst other things.
Full story in The Guardian


UK MPs call for rendition enquiry
MPs have called for an independent enquiry into the use of UK territory for rendition.
Full story in The Guardian


Court gags ex-soldier

Ben Griffin, an ex-SAS soldier has been gagged by a high court order preventing him from disclosing how British and American special forces rendered Iraqis and Afghans to prisons where they faced torture.
Guardian Article


European court reaffirms torture ban
Italy has been prevented from deporting a man to Tunisia because of a genuine fear that he could have been subjected to torture. The UK intervened in the hope that the European Court of Human Rights could be persuaded to weaken the absolute prohibition on torture and other ill treatment and allow European countries to deport people to countries where they could face torture, and other inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.
Amnesty

Guantanamo
Spain drops extradition request
Spain has dropped its request for the extradition of UK residents and former Guantanamo detainees Jamil El-Banna and Omar Deghayes.
Guardian article

More prisoners released
David Hicks is back in Australia after more than five years in Guantanamo. He thanked Amnesty and all those who campaigned for his release.
Read his full statement on the Sydney Morning Herald


Adel Hamad is back in Sudan
More info on his release from the Project Hamad blog


Not a day longer
Keep up the pressure on MPs to reject the extension of pre-charge detention form 28 to 42 days
Have you signed the Not-a-day-longer petition and written to your MP?
Labour MPs revolt on 42 days
Write to your MP
Not a day longer petition on Number 10 site