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• Feds framed my client, ISIS suspect’s lawyer says
• Guantánamo detainee declines release; 2 others sent to Balkans
• Canada won’t grant citizenship to jailed blogger
• Guantánamo parole board clears Yemeni who was victim of mistaken identity
• Reprieve urges supporters to lobby for the release of horrific force-feeding footage
• NGO: Israeli doctors force-feed Pal hunger-striker
• US in no position to lecture on compassion
• Mohamed Soltan is Dying to Live
• Saifullah Paracha
• Pentagon Blocks Prisoner Releases From Guantánamo Including 74-Pound Yemeni Hunger Striker – OpEd
• US Could Release Footage or Guantanamo Torture This Week
• Yemeni Pleads Guilty in U.S. to Supporting Al Qaeda
• Israel forcing treatment on hunger-striking journalist

Feds framed my client, ISIS suspect’s lawyer says Posted: 21 Jan 2016 04:22 PM PST The attorney for one Virginia resident accused of backing ISIS says the plot was manufactured by three government informants. He claims federal agents are targeting [...]

Guantánamo detainee declines release; 2 others sent to Balkans Posted: 21 Jan 2016 03:42 PM PST  By Carol Rosenberg The Pentagon disclosed Thursday that it sent two Guantánamo captives to start new lives in the Balkans in its continuing efforts to [...]

Canada won’t grant citizenship to jailed blogger Posted: 21 Jan 2016 09:11 AM PST By Lynn Desjardins | *protected email* Saudi blogger Raif Badawi will not be granted Canadian citizenship, reports the Globe and Mail newspaper, because Canada’s foreign [...]

Guantánamo parole board clears Yemeni who was victim of mistaken identity Posted: 21 Jan 2016 09:02 AM PST By Carol Rosenberg The Guantánamo parole board on Thursday approved the release of a captive who has been held for more than a decade at [...]

Reprieve urges supporters to lobby for the release of horrific force-feeding footage Posted: 21 Jan 2016 06:45 AM PST A BRITISH charity urged its US supporters yesterday to lobby their government to release disturbing top-secret footage of a hunger-striking Guantanamo Bay prisoner being force-fed. [...]

NGO: Israeli doctors force-feed Pal hunger-striker Posted: 21 Jan 2016 06:33 AM PST Force-feeding hunger-striker is a breach of international law Days of Palestine, West Bank –Administrative prisoner journalist Mohamed al-Qeq, who is on hunger strike, has been [...]

US in no position to lecture on compassion Posted: 20 Jan 2016 04:11 PM PST In his snapshot of the current situation across the Middle East (The opening up of Iran will count for little without American support for democracy [...]

Mohamed Soltan is Dying to Live Posted: 20 Jan 2016 03:59 PM PST Mohamed Soltan has been imprisoned in Egypt since August 25th, 2013 and has been on a hunger strike since January 26th, 2014. Mohamed’s health is [...]

Saifullah Paracha Posted: 20 Jan 2016 10:51 AM PST Saifullah is a 67 year old businessman and father of four children. He studied at the New York Institute of Technology where he met his [...]

Pentagon Blocks Prisoner Releases From Guantánamo Including 74-Pound Yemeni Hunger Striker – OpEd Posted: 20 Jan 2016 09:39 AM PST By Andy Worthington As the US prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba begins its 15th year of operations, there has been a flurry of mainstream media [...]

US Could Release Footage or Guantanamo Torture This Week Posted: 20 Jan 2016 09:10 AM PST The United States government will decide Friday whether or not to release video of inmates being force-fed at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. The U.S. [...]

Yemeni Pleads Guilty in U.S. to Supporting Al Qaeda Posted: 20 Jan 2016 08:38 AM PST A Yemeni man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to conspiring to kill Americans abroad by working with al Qaeda to attack U.S. military and coalition forces [...]

Israel forcing treatment on hunger-striking journalist Posted: 20 Jan 2016 08:23 AM PST The Israeli authorities have been forcing treatment on Palestinian hunger striker Muhammad al-Qiq in violation of medical ethics, medical rights group Physicians for Human Rights [...]