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Life After Gitmo

By | 10.27.09 | 5:10 pm

Winning his freedom was a big step for Mohammed Jawad, reportedly the youngest prisoner at Guantanamo Bay until he was released in August. But Jawad, who two U.S. judges have said was tortured in U.S. custody, is still suffering from the effects of his treatment during seven years More…

New Study on Detention and Inhumane Treatment Helps Explain Gitmo Suicides

By | 06.03.09 | 11:20 am

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…

Freddie Mac’s Acting CFO Found Dead in Apparent Suicide

By | 04.22.09 | 9:47 am

A longtime analyst for mortgage giant Freddie Mac who served as acting Chief Financial Officer since the firm was taken over by the federal government ast September was found dead in his suburban Virginia home, after an apparent suicide, The Washington Post reports. David Kellermann became CFO after the More…