Truthdigger of the Week: Singing Obama Protesters

Staff / Truthdig Apr 23, 2011 This week’s Truthdigger of the Week award goes to the cantabile group that interrupted President Obama in song over the detention of alleged WikiLeaks’ source Pfc. Bradley Manning. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Accused WikiLeaker Bradley Manning’s Torture by Isolation

Staff / Truthdig Dec 16, 2010 Bradley Manning, the Army private accused of leaking sensitive material to WikiLeaks, has been held for seven months in what Glenn Greenwald reports are “inhumane, personality-erasing, soul-destroying, insanity-inducing conditions” (more). Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Israel Moves to Corral Illegal Entrants

Staff / Truthdig Nov 29, 2010 Amid rhetoric that could be coming straight out of Arizona, the Israeli Cabinet has voted to build a facility in the desert to hold detained illegal migrants, who arrive mostly from Africa. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Aung San Suu Kyi to Be Freed

Staff / Truthdig Nov 13, 2010 Reports are streaming in that suggest Burmese military authorities have authorized the release of pro-democracy superstar Aung San Suu Kyi after a national election in the junta-led country. Suu Kyi has lived the past seven years under house arrest and 15 of the past 21 years in state-sponsored detention. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Profiting From Immigration Injustice

Staff / Truthdig Feb 15, 2010 Business is booming in Arizona, thanks to a disturbing federal immigration program that transfers millions of taxpayer dollars to a private prison company, parasitic attorneys and other opportunists. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

America’s ICE Backwards Approach to Immigration

Andrew Becker / Truthdig Jun 30, 2009 While the nation’s understaffed immigration courts strain under a backlog that has grown to more than 200,000 cases, thousands of new border agents have been hired and the number of government attorneys who argue for deportation has increased by 35 percent, pushing more cases onto an already overburdened system. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Fighting Crime by Reforming Juvenile Hall

Staff / Truthdig Jun 2, 2009 This week on the podcast: Sheerly Avni and Omar Turcios from The Beat Within, a magazine written by and for the troubled kids in juvenile prisons. Such facilities could be "recruiting grounds for crime fighting," argues Avni, and that's in our self-interest. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

From ‘Mission Accomplished’ to ‘So What?’

Eugene Robinson / Truthdig Dec 23, 2008 The history-be-my-judge interviews that President Bush and Vice President Cheney have been giving recently help me understand their choices -- but also reinforce my confident belief, and my fervent hope, that history will throw the book at them. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

White House Angered by Guantanamo Ruling

Staff / Truthdig Oct 8, 2008 The Bush administration is reportedly angry at a decision by US District Judge Ricardo Urbina, who ruled the detention of 17 Chinese Muslim prisoners at Guantanamo Bay was unfounded, citing a seemingly archaic document that prohibits indefinite detention without cause -- the U Constitution . Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Hamdan Sentence Is a Snub to Prosecution

Staff / Truthdig Aug 8, 2008 Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's former driver, has been sentenced by a military jury to five and a half years in prison -- most of which he's already served in detention. The prosecution wanted his sentence to be 30 years or longer, but it needn't be too upset: The military has said it can hold Hamdan indefinitely if it feels like it. Hamdan's lawyers are expected to appeal. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Military Court Finds Osama’s Driver Guilty

Staff / Truthdig Aug 6, 2008 Osama bin Laden's alleged driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, was convicted Wednesday by a military court on five counts of supporting terrorism. The decision was largely symbolic, since the U.S. had reserved the right, regardless of guilt or innocence, to detain Hamdan indefinitely. The ACLU called the verdict a "monumental debacle." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Help Me’: Gitmo Video Shows Tearful Teen

Staff / Truthdig Jul 15, 2008 Canadian lawyers released a wrenching 2003 video -- the first of its kind ever made public -- of a tearful 16-year-old boy suffering what appears to be a mental breakdown during an interrogation by Canadian officials at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay. Five years later, Omar Khadr has still not been charged with any crime. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )