Daily Archives: January 11, 2022

2022-01-11: News Headlines

Yimel Díaz (2022-01-11). Assange, el mensajero asesinado. globalizacion.ca El pasado 10 de diciembre los jueces del Tribunal Superior de Londres dieron marcha atrás al fallo de la magistrada de primera instancia, la jueza Vanessa Baraitser, que en enero del 2020 bloqueó la extradición de Julian Assange a Estados…

Hina Shamsi (2022-01-11). 20 Years Later, Guantánamo Remains a Disgraceful Stain on Our Nation. It Needs to End. aclu.org Twenty years have passed since the first detainees arrived in Guantánamo Bay, making it the longest-standing war prison in U.S. history. Since 2002, 779 Muslim men and boys have been held at Guantánamo, nearly all of them without charge or trial. Today, 39 men remain indefinitely detained there, and 27 of them have never even been charged with any crime. Fourteen of those 27 have been cleared for transfer or release, some for years. Many of the remaining men are torture survivors; the CIA formerly disappeared some of them at "black sites" before our government sent them to Guantánamo. All of the prisoners have…

Prensa Latina (2022-01-11). Expertos de ONU condenan abusos en ilegal base de Guantánamo. peoplesworld.org NACIONES UNIDAS, 10 ene (Prensa Latina) Un grupo de expertos en derechos humanos de la ONU condenó hoy los abusos cometidos en la cárcel de la Base Naval de Guantánamo, territorio que ocupa de forma ilegal Estados Unidos en Cuba. Por medio de un comunicado, los relatores independientes del organismo multilateral señalaron que en la …

Staff (2022-01-11). 20 years of Gitmo an affront to 'all humanity,' never-charged ex-prisoner tells RT. rt.com Yemeni man who was thrown into notorious US prison in his late teens and spent over 14 years there pleads for its belated shutdown | The abuses and injustices committed at Guantanamo Bay military prison hurt not only people locked up there, but the world in general, former prisoner Mansoor Adayfi believes. He spoke to RT as the jail turned 20. | Adayfi was one of hundreds of Muslim men sent to the infamous US offshore detention facility under the George W. Bush administration only to be held for years without trial and subjected to torture and other forms of degrading treatment. | "As prisoners, we lost years…

Amy Goodman (2022-01-11). Former Army Chaplain at Guantánamo Was Jailed There Himself. truthout.org Twenty years ago today, the U.S. military began imprisoning Muslim men at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. We speak with the prison's former Muslim chaplain, James Yee, who was jailed and held in solitary confinement for 76 days after being falsely accused of espionage. All charges were eventually dropped, and he received an honorable discharge. Yee describes how boys as young as 12 to 15 years old were treated as enemy combatants on the prison complex and the widespread Islamophobia that put even Muslim Americans under…

Cynthia Papermaster (2022-01-11). Tuesday 1/11: Cancelled: Guantanamo Rally/Press Conference, 12:30pm, Feinstein's office. indybay.org Dianne Feinstein's office, One Post, SF…

_____ (2022-01-10). US War Lobby Fuels Conflict In Russia, Ukraine, And Syria. popularresistance.org Douglas Macgregor, a retired US Army Colonel and former Pentagon senior advisor, analyzes the US-Russia standoff in Ukraine; the aftermath of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan; Trump's failure to act on 2016 campaign anti-interventionist rhetoric, only to surround himself with neocons; and the ongoing, overlooked US military occupation of Syria after the decade-long CIA dirty war. | "The Military Industrial Congressional Complex," Macgregor says, "seems to be more powerful than anyone who occupies the office of the presidency."ffice of the presidency."

Cynthia Papermaster (2022-01-10). Tuesday 1/11: Rally & Press Conference to Close Guantanamo; 20 yrs of detention and torture. indybay.org Dianne Feinstein's Office, One Post, above Montgomery St. BART…

Editor (2022-01-10). "20 Years of US Torture and Counting": Report Details Post-9/11 Abuse at Gitmo and Beyond. scheerpost.com Amnesty International activists dressed in orange jumpsuits and hoods, representing the 39 men still held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, marched from London's Parliament Square to Trafalgar Square on January 8, 2022. (Photo: Thomas Krych/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) | By Jessica Corbett / A report released Sunday, nearly 20 years after the first prisoners arrived at Naval Station Guantánamo Bay, details "systematic abuses carried out by the United St…

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