[Updated] Gitmo Prisoner’s Death: Suicide or Murder?

Jeffrey Kaye at Truthout has a good piece today on the suicide — or murder? — of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay prisoner Mohammad Ahmed Abdullah Saleh al Hanashi in June. It’s a powerful reminder of why human rights advocates, as well as U.S. military leaders, think it’s important to close that More…

New Study on Detention and Inhumane Treatment Helps Explain Gitmo Suicides

New research finds that the psychological impact of captivity in a hostile environment, deprivation of basic needs such as food and sleep, isolation, psychological manipulation and other “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment” is actually more damaging psychologically than is physical torture.

Science Daily reports the findings of Dr. Metin Ba?o?lu, More…