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US shuts once-secret Guantanamo prison unit, moves prisoners
April 4, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — A once-secret unit within the Guantanamo Bay detention center that had fallen into disrepair has been closed and the...
Judge Juan Guzmán Tapia: A Tribute
National Security Archive Remembers an Icon of Justice, Truth, And Dignity
Judge Guzmán Was First Chilean Judge to Prosecute Augusto Pinochet for Human Rights Crimes
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‘Holding our breath’: Will Biden keep his promise and shut Guantanamo...
President-elect is expected to close prison camp before its 20th anniversary next year, analysts say
By Sheren Khalel
13 January 2021
There are few who are expected...
UN expert joins calls for presidential pardon for Assange
UN special rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer has written an open letter to US president Donald Trump, becoming the latest in a chorus of...
The ICC refuses to prosecute UK war crimes in Iraq despite...
By Jean Shaoul
Dec, 17, 2020
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has abandoned its inquiry into war crimes committed by British troops in Iraq between 2003...
Ex-CIA Chief Says US-Assassinated Iranian General Soleimani Was His Personal ‘Nemesis’
by Aleksandra Serebriakova
Dec. 7, 2020
Former Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan, who will be remembered by many as a defender of the use of...
The CIA’s Secret Global War Against the Left
Forty-five years ago, under a cloak of secrecy, Operation Condor was officially launched: a global campaign of violent repression against the Latin American left...
Argentina’s House of Horrors
CIA Document Leads Human Rights Investigators to Previously Unidentified Clandestine Torture Center
Declassified U.S. Records Reveal Address of House Used by State Intelligence Service to Interrogate,...
Human Rights Watch: Children in Egypt tortured in detention
March 23, 2020
Human Rights Watch (HRW) is accusing Egypt of arresting and torturing children as young as 12. A report from the international rights...
End torture and medical neglect of Julian Assange
By Stephen Frost, Lissa Johnson
Jill Stein, William Frost
on behalf of 117 signatories
February 17, 2020
On Nov 22, 2019, we, a group of more than 60...