The Washington Independent

Saturday, February 11th, 2012

Posts Tagged disappeared

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

By | 11.20.09 | 4:19 pm

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…

U.S. Will Provide OAS Body with Obama Administration’s Position on Truth Commission

By | 03.20.09 | 5:57 pm

It was an odd but refreshing spectacle, to see U.S.-based human rights lawyers arguing to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the United States has effectively insulated itself from accountability for torture and war crimes, and ought to be pushed by an international body to do better.