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• It’s not just Trump: Islamophobia in America is spiraling out of control
• Rights Group Wants Bush-era Officials Tied to US Interrogations Program Investigated
• Why is Ibrahim Halawa spending his 20th birthday in an Egyptian prison?
• US appeals court reconsiders decision on ex-bin Laden aide
• Mistakenly Profiled Guantanamo ‘Forever Prisoner’ Seeks Release

It’s not just Trump: Islamophobia in America is spiraling out of control Posted: 01 Dec 2015 03:11 PM PST by Max Fisher  @Max_Fisher *protected email*   On the Tuesday after the Paris terror attacks, a Virginia civil engineer named Samer Shalaby carried a few poster boards [...]

Rights Group Wants Bush-era Officials Tied to US Interrogations Program Investigated Posted: 01 Dec 2015 02:53 PM PST Ken Bredemeier WASHINGTON—An international human rights advocacy group says former U.S. president George W. Bush and other key former government officials should be criminally investigated [...]

Why is Ibrahim Halawa spending his 20th birthday in an Egyptian prison? Posted: 01 Dec 2015 02:49 PM PST The Irish teenager is facing a death sentence for protesting in 2013   The family of Ibrahim Halawa has stepped up efforts to have the [...]

US appeals court reconsiders decision on ex-bin Laden aide Posted: 01 Dec 2015 02:42 PM PST By MICHAEL BIESECKER Washington • A federal appeals court is reconsidering the legality of the only remaining conviction of a Guantanamo Bay detainee who once [...]

Mistakenly Profiled Guantanamo ‘Forever Prisoner’ Seeks Release Posted: 01 Dec 2015 02:36 PM PST By Carol Rosenberg WASHINGTON — A Yemeni captive who was wrongly profiled at Guantanamo as an al-Qaida facilitator or courier — rather than a run-of-the-mill [...]