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    August 30

    Cageprisoners.com.....Guantanamo Prisoner

    "Realise that this is only the beginning of the wave, so if it did not reach you it will reach your children, if the new Prime Minister is going to be like Tony Blair"
    (Faraj Hassan, former Long Lartin detainee, facing deportation to Libya)


    Interviews with Faraj Hassan
    Interview with Faraj Hassan Al-Saad
    Cageprisoners exclusive interview with former Long Lartin detainee, Faraj Hassan Faraj, aka Detainee AS. Faraj was first arrested in 2002 and held in a number of British prisons, including Brixton and Belmarsh, before being imprisoned in the notorious HMP Long Lartin. He was amongst 17 Muslim prisoners there, fighting deportation to their home countries where it is highly likely they would face torture or ill-treatment. Faraj was released earlier this year and finally reunited with his wife and young daughter, Shaima.


    Events
    Charity Iftar for Hhugs and Cageprisoners
    ! Martin Mubanga: Ramadhan in Captivity
    Asim Qureshi: The ! UK's War on Error


    Shut Down Guantلnamo! Weekly Demo, London
    The London Guantلnamo Campaign has been protesting outside the US Embassy in Mayfair every Friday evening at 6-7pm since February 2007. Come and join us!

    Campaigns
    Ali Al Timimi Summer Appeal
    Ali's team continue to need funds for the upkeep of Ali and to meet the costs of his legal team

    ! Tear Down Guantanamo Bay
    You can tear down Guantanamo Bay. One pixel at a time. Sign the pledge. Get a pixel. When they're gone, we'll have 500, 000 new signatures. And the power to tear down the real Guantanamo Bay.

    Downloads
    Report On Scottish Involvement In Extraordinary Rendition
    Reprieve, 23rd August 2007
    Scottish authorities deliberately misled by Polish aviation authorities and a CIA company with an office in Crawley, in the rendition of Khaled Sheikh Mohammed

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    An Unjust Trial By Media
    by Clive Stafford Smith
    Some Guantanamo Bay prisoners have been cleared for release. But US defence officials still insist - and the unquestioning media reports - that they are dangerous terrorists. Why would any country want to take them?


    411-0: Opposition to Bush’s Guantلnamo Policy Grows

    by Andy Worthington
    As the time steadily approaches when the US Supreme Court will consider whether, after over three years of stalling and obfuscation on the part of the administration, the detainees at Guantلnamo will be allowed “full acces! s to the US court system” and the right to challenge the basis of their detention in federal courts, the Associated Press reports that 411 senior officials from the United States and Europe – 25 retired US diplomats, two retired rear admirals, a retired Marine general, and 383 current or former members of the European and British parliaments – made their support for the detainees’ case clear to the Supreme Court on Friday


    Good Riddance, Gonzales, But Don’t Forget Cheney and Addington, The True Architects of Torture
    by Andy Worthington
    OK, so the departing Attorney General was not as malevolent as some made out: more a willing pawn of his old friend George W. and his guiding brain, the recently departed Karl Rove, and, moreover, of the genuinely malevolent Dick Cheney, an! d his close associate David Addington.

    Did Chertoff Lie To Congress About Guantلnamo?
    by Mark Benjamin
    He told the Senate that Pentagon interrogation methods were "plain vanilla," but e-mails reveal his top staff met weekly with FBI officials who said they were torture.


    CCR Says Gonzales Resignation Welcomed But Nothing To Celebrate:
    Today, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) welcomed the resignation of Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General of the United States and now calls upon Congress to investigate his role in the Bush administration's abuse of Executive authority

    The Testimony of Guantلnamo Detainee Omar Deghayes: Includes Allegations of Previously Unreported Murders in Bagram
    by Andy Worthington
    Such is the turnover of stories in the news that genuinely shocking claims – such as those made by Guantلnamo detainee Omar Deghayes in a dossier released by his family two weeks ago – often become tomorrow’s fish and chip paper without anyone having really paid attention.


    Tajiks Released From Guantلnamo Sentenced To 17 Years in Prison

    by Andy Worthington
    From Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, comes news that two of the three Tajik detainees released from Guantلnamo in March – Muqit Vohidov a! nd Rukniddin Sharopov – have received jail sentences of 17 yea! rs in “h igh-security penal colonies” (aka labour camps) for “serving as mercenaries in Afghanistan” – where they were accused of aiding the Taliban by fighting for the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) – and for taking part in “illegal border crossing.”


    Collusion Concerns
    by Paul Donovan
    There are striking similarities between the way in which the cases of Brazilian Jean Charles De Menezes and Irish solicitor Pat Finucane have been dealt with by the British state.


    Reprieve Calls For Full Investigation Into Scotland’s Role As Host To CIA Torture Flights
    by Reprieve
    Scottish! authorities deliberately misled by Polish aviation authorities and a CIA company with an office in Crawley, in the rendition of Khaled Sheikh Mohammed


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    News

    GUANTANAMO

    Guantanamo May Soon Close, To Avoid Court Defeat
    Yemen 'Must Prioritise Freedom of Detainees'
    Unusual Coalition Files Amicus Brief in Boumediene Case
    Foreign Affairs Minister Briefed on Responding To Khadr Questions!
    Gitmo Chief: Al-Jazeera Detainee Is Fine

    Prosecutors Push to Resume War Crimes Trials
    White House Defends US Terror Tribunals
    Full Court Access Urged for Detainees
    Bosnia Interested in Fate of Its People in Guantanamo
    Guantanamo Victims May Get BD50,000

    GHOST

    Scottish Inquiry Into 'Rendition' Flights By CIA
    Kenyan Rights Activist Miss! ing
    Pakistan's Release of al-Qaida Suspect Upsets US and UK
    Pakistan Released Qaeda Suspect as Case Was to Be Heard

    UK

    Terror Accused Was 'Model Pupil'

    US

    Abu Ghraib Officer Acquitted of Failing To Control Soldiers
    Abu Ghraib Verdict Irks Rights Groups
    'Credible' US Justice Chief Urged
    US To Shut Anti-Terror Databa! se

    MISCELLANEOUS

    No Adjustment in 'Guantanamo North' Regime
    5 of the 11 Arrested on Suspicion of Belonging To Terror Group Freed
    Lawyer For Detainee Seeks Access To Guantanamo Prisoner
    U.S. OK'd Troop Terror Hunts in Pakistan
    Charkaoui Witness Recants, Reporter Tells Court
    Jack Thomas Allowed To Travel Interstate

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