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Great Malvern Gives Resounding Welcome to “Outside the Law: Stories from...
Congratulations to the Malvern Hills Amnesty International Group for demonstrating, on Tuesday evening, that compassion and empathy are not dead. Less than 24 hours before the coalition government...
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Lawyers for Ahmed Belbacha, Guantánamo Prisoner and Former UK Resident, Sue...
In an attempt to bring to an end a nearly four-year deadlock in the case of Ahmed Belbacha, an Algerian prisoner in Guantánamo, lawyers at the London-based legal action charity Reprieve have “started...
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Christmas at Guantánamo
Ten days ago, when I traveled to Sheffield with my friend, the former Guantánamo prisoner Omar Deghayes, for a screening of the documentary film, “Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo” (which I...
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During Obama’s UK Visit, Shaker Aamer’s Children – and Campaigners – Call for...
On Tuesday, as President Obama, on his first state visit to the UK, was welcomed by the Queen at Buckingham Palace, campaigners from the Save Shaker Aamer Campaign and the London Guantánamo Campaign...
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Bring Shaker Aamer Home: Parliamentary Screening of “Outside the Law: Stories...
“‘Outside the Law’ is a powerful film that has helped ensure that Guantánamo and the men unlawfully held there have not been forgotten.” Kate Allen, Director, Amnesty International UK “[T]his is a...
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Why Algeria Is Not A Safe Country for the Repatriation of Guantánamo Prisoners
Since July 2008, when the first Algerian prisoners were repatriated from Guantánamo, the position taken by the US government — first under George W. Bush, and, for the last three years, under Barack...
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Ahmed Belbacha, An Algerian Refugee in Guantánamo, Has Been Waiting for a New...
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EXCLUSIVE: Guantánamo Scandal: The 40 Prisoners Still Held But Cleared for...
This investigative report is published simultaneously here, and on the website of the “Close Guantánamo” campaign, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an...
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A Call for 90 Men to be Freed from Guantánamo on the 11th Anniversary of the...
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Who Are the 55 Cleared Guantánamo Prisoners on the List Released by the Obama...
I wrote the following report exclusively for the “Close Guantánamo” campaign and website, which I established in January with US attorney Tom Wilner. Please join us — just an email address is required...
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Guantánamo Stories: 19 of the 43 Men Being Force-Fed in the Prison-Wide...
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150 Doctors Condemn Force-Feeding at Guantánamo; Ahmed Belbacha Describes It...
Over 150 doctors from the US and around the world have condemned the force-feeding of hunger strikers at Guantánamo in a letter to President Obama that was published in the Lancet this week. They were...
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Shaker Aamer and Other Prisoners Ask US Court to Stop the Force-Feeding and...
Lawyers at the London-based legal action charity Reprieve, and co-counsel Jon B. Eisenberg, an attorney in Oakland, California filed a motion with the District Court in Washington D.C. on Sunday...
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In Court Submission, Hunger Striker Ahmed Belbacha Tells Obama, “End the...
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Shaker Aamer and Other Guantánamo Prisoners Call Force-Feeding Torture, Ask...
On June 30, as I reported here, lawyers for four prisoners in Guantánamo — Shaker Aamer, the last British resident in the prison, Nabil Hadjarab and Ahmed Belbacha, both Algerians, and Abu Wa’el Dhiab,...
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Watch the Shocking New Animated Film About the Guantánamo Hunger Strike
Below is a powerful new animated film, six minutes in length, which tells the story of the hunger strike at Guantánamo that began in February, and involved the majority of the 164 prisoners still held...
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Today, As Guantánamo Hunger Strikers Seek Relief in Washington Appeals Court,...
Today, at 11 am Eastern time (4 pm GMT), lawyers for three prisoners still held at Guantánamo Bay — including the last British resident, Shaker Aamer — will ask the appeals court in Washington D.C. to...
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US Appeals Court Rules that Guantánamo Prisoners Can Challenge Force-Feeding,...
In the latest news from Guantánamo, the court of appeals in Washington D.C. ruled yesterday that hunger-striking prisoners can challenge their force-feeding in a federal court — and, more generally,...
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Long-Cleared Algerian Prisoner Ahmed Belbacha Released from Guantánamo
I’m delighted to report that Ahmed Belbacha, an Algerian prisoner, has been released from Guantánamo. It’s always good news when a prisoner is released, and in Ahmed Belbacha’s case it is particularly...
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