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U.S. Tried to Get Gitmo Detainee to Waive Rights in Exchange for Release

By | 03.23.09 | 12:33 pm

The U.S. government tried to get Binyam Mohamed — the British resident who was held by the United States at Guantanamo Bay for four years and allegedly tortured in CIA “black sites” — to promise not to speak to the media or sue the United States as a condition More…

British Court Re-Opens Case of Tortured U.K. Resident Ahead of Release from Gitmo

By | 02.12.09 | 5:10 pm

Scott Horton at Harper’s has posted a helpful roundup of the latest developments in the increasingly bizarre case of Binyam Mohamed in the United Kingdom.

Mohamed, readers will recall, is the British Ethiopian-born Gitmo prisoner first abducted in 2002 in Pakistan and tortured over the next two years More…

Bipartisan Advocacy Group Urges Holder to Change Position on State Secrets

By | 02.06.09 | 11:46 am

Since my story a few weeks ago on the Jeppesen Dataplan case, there’s been growing pressure on the Obama administration to reverse course and stop asserting “state secrets” to thwart the case, which in addition to compensating these victims, could reveal critical information about the Bush administration’s torture and More…

Obama Supports Bush Secrecy About U.S.-Sponsored Torture

By | 02.04.09 | 10:08 pm

The Obama administration may have just failed the first big test of its promises to end unwarranted government secrecy.

According to a decision issued Wednesday by the High Court in Great Britain, the court will not publish its summary of the alleged torture of Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam More…