Guantanamo Detainees

It's Rotten Here in Jail

Allan Hogarth | Posted 14.06.2013 | UK Politics
Allan Hogarth

I explained to them that I actually understand and agree that many of the people on whose behalf Amnesty work are probably guilty. Guilty of insulting the president, guilty of being gay, guilty of standing up for women's rights. I explained that it's often repressive laws that puts many of the people on whose behalf Amnesty work behind bars.

Free Nabil Hadjarab

David Morrissey | Posted 12.06.2013 | UK
David Morrissey

Nabil was just 22 years old when he was sold for a bounty to US forces and taken to Guantanamo Bay. He has been held there ever since without charge or trial. The US has since admitted that he was mistakenly arrested. In 2007 Nabil was cleared for release. Then, in 2009, Barack Obama became President and promised to close Guantanamo Bay. Nabil - like all the detainees - thought that maybe, finally his time had come to be released from his indefinite detention. Instead, the President did nothing.

WATCH: 'I Like Steak, But I Haven't Had It In A While'

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 12.06.2013 | UK

A young Muslim man who is on hunger strike in Guantanamo Bay, despite being cleared for release in 2007, is the subject of a new animated film designe...

Shaker Aamer: Prisoner 239 and the Ongoing Scandal of Guantánamo Bay

Rob Atkinson | Posted 29.05.2013 | UK Politics
Rob Atkinson

Shaker Aamer had been working for an Islamic charity in Afghanistan in 2001 when he was captured in Jalalabad and handed over to US officials. He was interrogated and then transported to Guantánamo Bay.

Forget Gun Control, Guantanamo and Gay Marriage, The Change Obama Promised Will Be Worth His Every Unfulfilled Ambition

Alastair Carr | Posted 07.05.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Alastair Carr

Obama the "Communist Muslim Atheist" couldn't be more antithetical to the current Republican Party if he tried. He's young, black, unashamedly liberal and actually just as uncompromising as his right wing nemeses.

Will William Hague Try And Save Britain's Last Guantanamo Detainee?

Observer | Posted 05.05.2013 | UK Politics

Foreign secretary William Hague is considering making a dramatic public plea for the return of the last former British resident held inside Guantánam...

A Willing Bystander to the Guantanamo Debacle

Hilary Stauffer | Posted 01.05.2013 | UK Politics
Hilary Stauffer

Mr. President, it is true that the NDAA and rampant fear-mongering make it difficult to close Guantanamo Bay. But it's not impossible - and the power doesn't rest solely with Congress. You have the ability to make an immediate difference.

Obama Must Shut 'Unpatriotic' Guantanamo Bay, Says Former Terror Prosecutor

The Huffington Post UK | Ned Simons | Posted 02.05.2013 | UK

President Obama hasn't delivered on his promises on Guantanamo Bay and is unpatriotic in keeping the prison open, according to the prison camp's forme...

Plea To Barack Obama Over British Guantanamo Detainee

PA | Posted 13.02.2013 | UK

A 20,000-strong petition will be presented to US President Barack Obama to urge the release of a British detainee at Guantanamo Bay who has been held ...

Last Brit In Guanatanamo To Sue UK Intelligence For Defamation

The Huffington Post UK | Jessica Elgot | Posted 14.12.2012 | UK

The last remaining British inmate in Guantanamo Bay has launched a defamation case against the British security services for making "knowingly false s...

The Use of Torture by Great Democracies Was the Most Shameful Scandal of the War on Terror

Corinna Ferguson | Posted 13.03.2012 | UK Politics
Corinna Ferguson

The government is more than capable of setting up effective and independent investigations - consider the Leveson Inquiry into press practices or the Baha Mousa Inquiry into the use of banned interrogation methods by the MoD in Iraq. Why can't ministers do the same for victims of torture?

'Torture Victim' Accuses Britan Of Criminality At The Highest Levels

PA/The Huffington Post | Posted 12.01.2012 | UK

The former Guantanamo Bay detainee who has claimed a MI5 officer colluded in his torture while he was held in Pakistan has accused British authorities...

The Whitewashing of Britain's Guantanamo Bay Detainees

Robin Simcox | Posted 10.03.2012 | UK Politics
Robin Simcox

I had never heard of anyone having their limbs blown off while trying to buy property until I learned of Tarek Dergoul, the former British Guantánamo Bay detainee.

Juan Mendez: Person Of The Week

The Huffington Post UK | Olivia Williams | Posted 22.11.2011 | UK

Juan Mendez's first encounter with torture was as a victim, when he spent 18 long months as a political prisoner in his native Argentina. Now, as a U...