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Human rights groups urged to take part in torture probe

04.08.11
Human rights groups and lawyers have been urged to 'think again' after saying they would boycott an inquiry into the alleged torture of UK terror suspects... more

Guantanamo book profits are frozen

03.08.11
An Australian judge today froze proceeds from a book by a former Guantanamo Bay inmate... more

Tactical Questioning is another trial for our boys in Basra

07.06.11
Tactical Questioning covers the Baha Mousa Inquiry, which examined the 2003 death in the custody of the British Army in Basra of Mousa, who was found with 93 injuries to his body... more

Guantanamo inmate 'commits suicide'

19.05.11
Afghan detainee at the Guantanamo Bay prison dies in an apparent suicide, the US military says ... more

London terror detainee 'served as Osama bin Laden's translator'

26.04.11
A London terror suspect who William Hague believes should be freed from Guantanamo Bay worked for Osama bin Laden and commanded al Qaeda fighters, according to leaked US documents published... more

Lidless is a terror vision

18.03.11
Lidless, from American playwright Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig, made news in Edinburgh last year, shutting 20 or so audience members inside a large box that represented a cell at Guantánamo... more

David Cameron blasts George Bush: Guantanamo has made Britain less safe

11.11.10
David Cameron clashes with George Bush by claiming that the Guantanamo Bay detention camp made Britain less safe... more

Guantanamo tribunal gives Osama bin Laden cook 14 years in jail

12.08.10
Osama bin Laden’s cook given 14 years in jail by a Guantanamo Bay tribunal after admitting providing material support for terrorism... more

Tony Blair ‘ordered illegal actions on renditions’

15.07.10
Secret government documents suggest Tony Blair ordered diplomats to prevent the return to Britain of a UK national detained as a terror suspect and later sent to Guantanamo Bay, it was claimed... more

9/11 mastermind to go on trial in New York

13.11.09
Self-proclaimed ringleader of the 9/11 terror attacks is to face public trial in New York, President has announces... more

Transparency is vital to restore West’s reputation

13.11.09
Todays's decision that the key plotters behind the 9/11 attacks should face trial in a public court is not only a symbolic and poignant moment for the city’s residents but could prove to be a significant step in the battle to combat Islamic extremism.... more

Guantanamo trials to be moved to US

21.10.09
BARACK OBAMA is a step closer in his efforts to close Guantanamo Bay as the senate voted to allow prisoners to be tried in the US... more

Cuba50 in all its glory at Victoria Park

22.06.09
Cuba50 tips its flat cap to the music nurtured by the island’s half-century-old revolution; the legendary Orquestra Aragon.... more

Six police accused of torturing suspects by simulated drowning

10.06.09
Scotland Yard is set to sack officers who are found guilty of torturing suspects by simulating drowning... more

US threatens to withhold intelligence from Britain after Guantanamo court case

14.05.09
The US government has threatened to withhold future intelligence from Britain if a court releases details of the torture of former Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed... more

Guantanamo 'fun' blog is censored

02.04.09
A post on the Miss Universe website from Miss Venezuela describing "having fun" at Guantanamo Bay has been taken down... more

Dick Cheney 'cover-up' over Guantanamo innocents

20.03.09
A former White House official claims many prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are innocent... more

Guantanamo Londoner 'is emaciated and living in fear'

06.03.09
Former Guantanamo detainee Binyam Mohamed is “emaciated and weak” and struggling to deal with life since returning to Britain, his family and friends told the Evening Standard... more

Ex-Guantanamo prisoner detained on visit to britain

25.02.09
A former Guantanamo Bay prisoner said that he was detained at Heathrow while visiting a human rights lawyer... more

Londoner to be freed from Guantanamo man set for return to UK

20.02.09
Binyam Mohamed, the former London resident held at Guantanamo Bay for more than four years, may be returned to Britain next week... more

Miliband faces cover-up claims over torture case

05.02.09
Foreign secretary David Miliband faces claims of a cover-up over allegations that British security services colluded in the torture of a terror suspect... more

Obama runs into storm of protest over closure of Guantanamo

23.01.09
President Barack Obama’s honeymoon is drawing to a close, less than 48 hours after he took office... more

Now it's straight to work: Obama halts Guantanamo trials

21.01.09
Barack Obama has set out to confront the twin crises facing America: economic meltdown and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan... more

I'll close down Guantanamo in two years, says Obama

18.12.08
Barack Obama has said he plans to close the Guantanamo Bay detention centre and mark a "clear end" to torture in the US within two years of becoming president... more

9/11 relative 'wants to lock eyes with son's killer'

08.12.08
The man behind the September 11 attacks on New York was appearing before a military judge with four alleged co-conspirators... more

Bin Laden's driver goes free from Guantanamo

25.11.08
Osama bin Laden's former driver is being transferred from detention at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to his home country of Yemen, US defence officials said... more

Guantanamo 'Londoner' in plea to No 10

30.05.08
A Guantanamo detainee who lived in Kensington for seven years has written to Gordon Brown to plead for his release... more

Election Diary

14.04.08
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Dance of the detainee

13.11.07
The duo behind Honour Bound, Nigel Jamieson and Garry Stewart, reveal how the plight of one Guantánamo Bay detainee inspired their latest piece of spectacular dance theatre.... more

All hail Jesus, he's the new Bono

06.06.07
Abie Philbin Bowman's intermittently insightful in-character monologue Jesus: The Guantánamo Years is an intriguing assault on Bushism.... more


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