“This was the fifth execution that I’ve witnessed in Alabama, and I have never seen such a violent reaction to an execution,” said journalist Lee Hedgepeth. Ultimately, the execution lasted about 22 minutes.
There are still 30 detainees at Guantánamo. Sixteen of them have been deemed no longer threats to the United States and cleared for release, but arrangements have yet to be made to transfer them... Now there are tiny steps toward closure.
Doing Harm investigates the American Psychological Association’s complicity in post-9/11 torture programs and the struggle to reform the psychology field.
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A shocking investigation by Insider reveals how patrol dogs in U.S. prisons have attacked at least 295 people since 2017.
To honor those who have died and suffered from the fires Biden nominee Elliott Abrams lit and fanned abroad, we must stop his appointment.
Khader Adnan died in prison on May 2, aged 45, after an 87-day hunger strike. He had been repeatedly held in administrative detention since 1999. Despite vilifying him as a terrorist, Israel never charged him with involvement in military activities.
For 21 years, the Guantanamo detainee Abu Zubaydah has been in US custody without charge, tortured and sexually humiliated, with no prospect for release.
An interview with the attorney for the former al Qaeda operative, who testified to the CIA’s ‘enhanced interrogation’ and more torture at the prison camp. That torture was a war crime that should have been—and should in the future be—prosecuted as a criminal act.
Russia is not a signatory to the International Criminal Court, which means that its nationals can’t be tried at the ICC for war crimes in Ukraine. The United States is the other Great Exception to the rules of war.
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