Articles tagged with: Geneva Convention
Rubbing Salt in Guantanamo’s Wounds: Task Force Announces Indefinite Detentions
By Andy Worthington
With a stunning lack of sensitivity, President Barack Obama’s Guantánamo Review Task Force chose the anniversary of the president’s failed promise to close the prison to announce its conclusions regarding the eventual fate …
An open letter to President George W. Bush – By Andrew Sullivan
Americans want, and need, to move on from the debate over torture in Iraq and Afghanistan and close this tragic chapter in our nation’s history. Prosecuting those responsible could tear apart a country at war. …
Leaked Red Cross report details terror suspect torture by U.S. under Bush
WASHINGTON – The tales are horrifyingly medieval in nature – terror suspects beaten, bound and bleeding, forced into coffin-like boxes, shackled naked to their beds in darkened cells, deprived of food for weeks, forced underwater …
