Staff / TruthdigNov 16, 2007
Web site Wikileaks has uncovered a 238-page manual that addresses almost every aspect of detainees' lives at the Guantanamo detention facility. Cooperative prisoners, for example, should be allowed three showers a week instead of two, the manual says. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigNov 2, 2006
Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, said he is in talks with Israel via a UN mediator to negotiate a prisoner swap The U Security Council resolution that ended the monthlong conflict in Lebanon, during which more that 1,200 people died, called for the unconditional release of the soldiers whose capture ignited the war. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMar 17, 2006
NFL star Tiki Barber, a "Fox & Friends" guest host, asserted that an Abu Ghraib torture victim is "taking advantage" of his past by heading a prisoners' rights group. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigMar 10, 2006
Some sources are reporting that the U.S. has decided to close the notorious prison and transfer its prisoners elsewhere, but don't celebrate just yet: The seeds for future abuse are already well sown. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMar 10, 2006
Over 250 medical experts sign a letter condemning the U.S. for force-feeding prisoners on hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 22, 2006
Almost 100 prisoners have died in U.S. custody in Iraq and Afghanistan since August 2000, with homicide suspected or confirmed in 34 deaths, concludes a report fom Human Rights First. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigFeb 17, 2006
In the wake of a UN report condemning the US treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the U secretary-general says America must shut down the prison "as soon as possible" U officials react about as you might expect
Earlier: Read about the former U interrogator whose book blew the lid off inhumane practices at Gitmo
Update: From the Jordan Times (via Watching America): "It is immensely sad that the U should end up imitating the worst aspects of the very systems it says it wants to 'democratize'". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Blair Golson / TruthdigFeb 16, 2006
Newly released photos and videos of inhumane conditions at Abu Ghraib have again shone a spotlight on America's treatment of its prisoners Read the sworn statements by prisoners at Abu Ghraib, obtained and translated by the Washington Post in 2004 at the height of the prison abuse scandal
Excerpt: "As soon as we arrived, they put sandbags over our heads and they kept beating us And every single night this military guy comes over and beat us and handcuffed us until the end of his shift". Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Robert Scheer / TruthdigDec 14, 2005
The more we learn of the Bush administration's pervasive outsourcing of torture, the more sensible it seems as a policy. Evidently, our intelligence people, tainted as they are by the squeamish morality of Western civilization, are just not fully up to the task of getting prisoners to tell us what the administration wants us to hear. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )
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