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U.N. Secret Detention Report

Posted: 17 June 2010 by Editors in Af-Pak War, International Affairs, Political Science
Tags: Abdul Rahim al-Nashiri, Abu Zubaydah, Afghanistan, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Australia, Bagram, Binyam Mohamed, Bisher al-Rawi, Canada, CIA, Egypt, extraordinary rendition, FBI, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, human rights, Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, international law, Iraq, Jamil El-Banna, Jordan, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, KSM, Maher Arar, Majid Khan, Mamdouh Habib, Manfred Nowak, Moazzam Begg, Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Mohammed Saad Iqbal Madni, Morocco, Murat Kurnaz, Mustafa al-Hawsawi, Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, Obama, Obama Administration, Omar Deghayes, Pakistan, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Russia, Saifullah Paracha, secret prisons, Syria, torture, UK, UN, UNHRC, US, Walid bin Attash, War on Terror

The heroic Andy Worthington—leading journalist on the Kafka-esque U.S. military prisons at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba and Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan; the Bush-Obama Administrations’ policy and standard operating procedures regarding kidnapping, rendition and torture; and the ensuing legal processes—has outstandingly posted excerpts from the February report conducted by the U.N. Human Rights Council, “Joint Study on Global Practices in Relation to Secret Detention in the Context of Counter-Terrorism” [.pdf].

Read the series at his blog:

Intro: U.N. Human Rights Council Discusses Secret Detention Report
Part I: “The C.I.A. ‘High-Value Detainee Program and Secret Prisons“
Part II: “C.I.A. Prisons in Afghanistan and Iraq“
Part III: “Proxy Detention, Other Countries, Complicity and Obama’s Record“

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Daily Briefing—17th June 2010

Posted: 17 June 2010 by Editors in Daily Briefing
Tags: AIG, Andy Worthington, Arizona, BP, BP Gulf oil spill, Carol Rosenberg, Chicago Police, child soldiers, Colonial Bank, Democrats, Ezra Klein, Fannie Mae, Federal Reserve, Freddie Mac, Freedom Flotilla, Garani Massacre, Gitmo, Goldman Sachs, Granai Massacre, Guantanamo Bay, IMF, immigrant jails, indefinite detention, Israel, Jon Burge, Joshua Claus, Michelle Shephard, no-fly list, Omar Khadr, Orrin Hatch, police brutality, public opinion, secret prisons, Somalia, Spain, TARP, Turkey, UN, UN Secret Detention Report, UNHRC, Wikileaks, Yemen, yuan renminbi

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Daily Briefing—15th June 2010

Posted: 15 June 2010 by Editors in Daily Briefing
Tags: 1953 Iran coup, Afghan Taliban, Afghanistan, Ahmed Wali Karzai, Amity Shlaes, Andy Worthington, Antoaneta Becker, austerity measures, Bill O'Reilly, Blackstone Group, BP, Canada, China, CIA, Coal India, currency manipulation, Daniel Tencer, death row, deportation, drug war, Dubai assassination, E, Eric Ruder, euro, European Union, extrajudicial assassinations, fiber optics, GCC, general strike, Gitmo, Glenn Greenwald, global debt, Goldman Sachs, Gregory White, Guantanamo Bay, habeas corpus, Haqqani Network, healthcare, Hindustan Copper, Honda, immigration, indefinite detention, India, inflation, Iran, Iraq, ISI, Israel, James Risen, Jan Brewer, Kyrgyzstan, labor unions, Latin America, Maher Arar, Matthew Berger, Maxim Bakiyev, Michael Gould-Wartofsky, mineral deposits, Mossad, Nigeria, Obama Administration, Pakistan, Pentagon, Persian Gulf, private military contractors, Quetta Shura, RCMP, renminbi, renminbi yuan, Robert Gibbs, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, SCOTUS, secret prisons, Singapore, Spain, Taliban, torture, treasury bonds, TTP, UN, UNHRC, USD, Vincent Fernando, War on Terror, yuan

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Sri Lanka ‘Will Hang’ Former Army Chief for War Crimes Investigation Participation

Posted: 7 June 2010 by Little Alex in International Affairs, Political Science
Tags: Anna Neistat, Arundhati Roy, BBC, China, corporatism, Cuba, detention camps, Geneva Conventions, Gotabhaya Rajapakse, HardTalk, human rights, Human Rights Watch, IHL, India, international humanitarian law, international law, Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, LTTE, Mahinda Rajapakse, Manmohan Singh, Pakistan, Pratibha Patil, Rajavarothayam Sambanthan, Rajiv Gandhi assassination, Russia, Sarath Fonseka, SLAF, Sonia Gandhi, Sri Lanka, Stephen Sackur, Sutirtho Patranobis, Tajikistan, Tamil Tigers, UN, UN Security Council, UNHRC, UNSC, Uzbekistan, Venezuela

The Sri Lankan defense minister has threatened to hang a parliament member, recently resigned from the S.L.A.F., if he exposes the country’s war crimes against the Tamils. The suppression of the war crimes during the country’s quarter-century civil war and the government’s forging alliances have dangerous potential.