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IJNetwork Press Release Petition Addendum
July 6, 2010, New York, NY – In its continued fight to protect the human rights of three men who have been held for more than eight years without charge by the US Government at Bagram Prison in Afghanistan, attorneys with the International Justice Network (IJN) and co-counsel today filed a petition asking a DC Circuit Federal Court of Appeals to reconsider its prior decision to deny the men access to US courts.
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IJNetwork Press Release New York, NY, May 18, 2010-- The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia yesterday agreed to vacate a lower court ruling denying habeas rights to Afghan detainees held by the United States at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan. The International Justice Network (IJNetwork) originally filed the case in September 2006 on behalf of Mr. Haji Pacha Wazir, an Afghan businessman detained for more than seven years without justification by the US government at the infamous Bagram prison in Afghanistan.
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Bagram’s New Black Hole
Read the full story at : http://blog.amnestyusa.org/
United States, War on Terror | Posted by: Tom Parker, April 21, 2010 at 1:29 AM
Last week the BBC reported that it had interviewed nine Afghan detainees who claimed to have been held in a secret detention facility on Bagram Air Base
where they suffered abuse at the hands of US personnel.
The detainees were held in a hitherto unidentified detention facility called “The Black Hole” by their American guards. Most of the detainees said they
had been beaten at the time of their arrest – one was missing a row of teeth.
In the prison lights were kept on in the cells 24 hours a day and the constant hum machinery seemed designed to prevent detainees from sleeping. One detainee, Mirwais, claimed that he was made to dance by the guards every time he needed to use the bathroom.
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IJNetwork Press Release Jan Sher Khan Habeas Petition Amanatullah Habeas Petition
New York, NY, March 30, 2010--The International Justice Network (IJNetwork) today filed two new lawsuits against the U.S. government challenging the illegal detention of two Pakistani men who have been held for over five years, without charge, in U.S. custody at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan.
One of the petitioners, Amanatullah, was taken into custody by British National Forces in Iraq, and illegally rendered to U.S. custody in Afghanistan. Amanatullah has repeatedly asked the U.S. government to allow him to meet or speak with his attorneys, Tina M. Foster and Erin Valentine of the International Justice Network. The U.S. government continues to deny all such requests.
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Keep Guantanamo away from Afghanistan
By Sahr Muhammedally
Foreign Policy - Tuesday, March 23, 2010 - 5:05 PM
Closing Guantanamo and deciding what to do with future international terrorism suspects has been harder than expected. According to the LA Times, some U.S. officials are considering expanding U.S. detention operations in Afghanistan and creating a prison similar to Guantanamo to hold terrorism suspects in order to avoid trying them in U.S. courts due to lack of evidence. This is a bad idea -- a very bad idea.
Although it may be tempting to suggest Afghanistan as an alternative holding site for suspected terrorist from places like Yemen and Somalia, I can say with certainty that establishing mini Gitmos in other countries is not a solution. If we go that route it would undoubtedly lead to a public relations disaster for the U.S. military still trying to mend relations with the Afghan people, and put a strain on diplomatic relations with the Afghan government. Not to mention such a move is legally impermissible.
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Sahr Muhammedally is a humanrights lawyer based in London.
Read the full story at: http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/03/23/keep_guantanamo_away_from_afghanistan |
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Bagram Detainees and Torture Victims
