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Feds Consider Bringing Another High-Level Gitmo Prisoner to Trial in NYC

By | 12.14.09 | 6:32 pm

Federal prosecutors are weighing sending Guantanamo prisoner Majid Khan to face a federal court trial in New York, The Associated Press reports, based on an anonymous source.

Khan is one of fewer than two dozen “high-value” detainees at the prison camp, believed to be a senior member of More…

ICRC Torture Report Posted Online

By | 04.07.09 | 11:36 am

The New York Review of Books has published the complete 43-page report by the International Committee of the Red Cross detailing the gruesome torture and abuse of “high value” prisoners held by the United States government at overseas CIA prisons, known as “black sites.” Although confidential, journalist Mark Danner More…