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Inmates Rising: Desperate Gitmo Prisoners Tell Lawyers They Will Starve Themselves to Get Out

Detainees in Camp 4, one of the camps inside Camp Delta, at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on June 8, 2010. (Photo: Richard Perry / The New York Times)Abdulsalam Al-Hela does not understand why he and other…
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3272 words)

Obama Fails to Deliver Transparency as Cabinet Defies Requests

More than half of President Barack Obama’s cabinet agencies continue to defy open-government rules by not disclosing the cost of travel by top officials. Nine of 15 cabinet offices have yet to…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 18, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1580 words)

Latif Letter About Guantanamo Speaks From the Grave: "I Am Being Pushed Toward Death Every Moment"

Guards from Camp Five at Guantanamo escort a detainee from his cell to a recreational facility within the camp. (Photo: Petty Officer 2nd Class Kilho Park / DVIDSHUB / flickr)Explosive claims in a…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3822 words)

Latif Autopsy Report Calls Gitmo Death a Suicide: Questions Remain

Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif. (Photo: JTF-GTMO)The cause of death has been ruled a suicide, the manner of death has not yet been disclosed. The list of unanswered questions grows. Truthout has obtained…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2939 words)

Sold Into "a Piece of Hell:" A Death of Innocence at Gitmo

(Photo: Wikipedia)Sold for a $5,000 bounty, Adnan Latif was among the first prisoners detained at Guantanamo. A federal judge and two presidential administrations said he didn't belong there. A…
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5026 words)

Exclusive: From Hopeful Immigrant to FBI Informant - The Inside Story of the Other Abu Zubaidah

WORLD EXCLUSIVE: Meet the brother of the first high-value detainee: he came to the US to pursue the American dream, spent two years in an immigration jail following the 9/11 attacks and was then…
LENGTH: 61 minutes (15352 words)

Citing Truthout Report, UN Special Rapporteur "Looking Into" Guantanamo "Suicides"

The detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in a photo taken on Oct. 4, 2007. (Photo: Todd Heisler / The New York Times) On Friday, March 9, Christof Heyns, the UN Special Rapporteur on…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2170 words)
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The McGill Daily » Why you shouldn’t tell American border guards you’re in Islamic Studies

On May 1, 2010, Pascal Abidor was riding an Amtrak train from Montreal to New York. His parents live in Brooklyn, and he was on his way to visit them. The school year at McGill had just ended, and he…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1956 words)

poor, black, and jailed under FBI 'entrapment' tactics

Imam Salahuddin Muhammad could hardly miss Shahed Hussain when he first appeared three years ago at his mosque in the dilapidated town of Newburgh, just 60 miles up the Hudson River from New…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 12, 2011
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2137 words)
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