...It will be up to the Biden administration, which is working to close the detention center that now holds 39 men, to find a country willing to accept Khan for resettlement along with his wife and...
... A Guantanamo Bay prisoner held in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack gave a first hand account of the US government ’s brutal interrogation programme, which included sexual assault and forced...
... “The more I cooperated, the more I was tortured,” said Mr. Khan, shown in a 2018 photo, who is now cooperating with the government. Credit Center for Constitutional Rights In court on Thursday,...
... A Guantanamo Bay prisoner who went through the brutal U.S. government interrogation program after the 9/11 attacks described it openly for the first time Thursday, saying he was left terrified...
...A detainee held at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre has offered the first public account in a United States court of torture at a CIA clandestine facility during Washington’s decades-long so-...
...The clemency letter provided a harsh critique of the legal framework and C.I.A. detention system that the Bush administration established after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the legacy of which...
...The abuses, which spanned three years after Khan was detained in Karachi in 2003, included being waterboarded, hung naked from a ceiling beam, starved, and being physically and sexually assaulted...
... This was deliberate; governments that torture deny in public what they did in secret. To make the denial credible, victims must not speak. But isolation serves another purpose, equally pernicious...
...Khan's legal team, led by Wells Dixon of The Center for Constitutional Rights, reached the more favorable sentencing deal after agreeing to forgo an evidentiary hearing that would have involved...
...Last week, as Common Dreams reported , Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz's punitive designation targeted six groups—Addameer, AlHaq, the Bisan Center for Research and Development, Defense for...
