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A new chapter is about to begin in Guantanamo’s long history as a site of American international law violations.
Why does the US Bureau of Prisons refuse to allow Dr Aafia Siddiqui visits from an imam?
After 20 years in Guantánamo and a seven-year hunger strike, Ahmed Rabbani is finally free.
Alabama wanted to kill a man by making him breathe nitrogen, based on a film. Except officials didn’t know how to.
Ahmed Rabbani has been cleared to leave the infamous facility in Cuba months ago – but he is still stuck there.
Clive Stafford Smith reflects on how his clients remain in the detention centre without charges or a trial, 20 years on.
I found my name mentioned in a leaked US intelligence document under a section called ‘lawfare’. I was hardly surprised.
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The challenge is to understand how and why the West elected to position al-Qaeda as the counterweight to the US.
The 2001 US invasion was bound to devastate the country and the Afghan people.
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