Dr Aafia Siddiqui – The Prisoner 650

KARACHI: Chairman of Senate Committee for Interior, Senator Talha Mahmood has said that about 20,000 Pakistanis are [...]

ISLAMABAD: The Chairman of Senate Standing Committee on Interior, Senator Talha Mehmood has [...]

- Moazzam Begg is Director for the British organisation, Cageprisoners. The opinions expressed are his own.

Little seems to have changed regarding the treatment of prisoners held at the U.S. military-run Bagram prison since I was there (2002-2004). The recent study conducted by the BBC shows allegations of sleep deprivation, stress positions, beatings, degrading treatment, [...]

ISLAMABAD: President Asif Ali Zardari has succeeded in obtaining five helicopters from President Barack Obama, but failed to obtain the release of Pakistani citizen Dr Aafia Siddiqui.
Dr Aafia claims that the Americans are trying to kill her and those who have met this frail lady say she is in bad shape both physically and mentally. [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the United States to release a prisoner from the Guantanamo detention center.
U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle issued a one-page judgment Tuesday ordering the release of Yasin Muhammed Basardh, a 33-year-old from Yemen.
The judge didn’t explain in the ruling why Basardh should be let go, but said [...]

 
In the wake of the September 11 attacks and the subsequent US-led ‘War on Terror’, hundreds of Muslim men were handed over by various countries to US intelligence. One of these men was Binyam Mohamed, a British resident of Ethiopian origin, who had gone toAfghanistan and Pakistan to rediscover his faith in Islam and to find a way [...]

To friends and family, he was a maturing leader in the Muslim community, a passionate writer who was departing for Saudi Arabia for a career as a pharmacist. But the arrest of Tariq Mehanna in November, as he was about to board a plane at Logan International Airport for his new life in the Middle [...]

On his release from Guantanamo Bay, Badr-uz-Zaman and his brother Abdul Rahim Muslim Dost set about writing a book on their experiences in Pashto. Soon after the publication of the book Dost was detained and Badr-uz-Zaman was forced to go on the run. In this rare interview, Cageprisoners managed to speak with him about the [...]

By Yvonne Ridley
Guantanamo Bay is, without doubt, the world’s most notorious prison, which has left an indelible stain on the Bush administration.
One of the first acts of U. S. President Barack Obama was to order its closure and there is speculation that some of the detainees may now be offered asylum in Wales.

by VIVIAN SALAMA, ISLAMABAD, Pakistan

Mohammed Saad Iqbal never imagined that his 26th birthday would be the first of many spent behind the concrete walls and barbed-wire fences of Guantanamo Bay.
(Matthew Tabaccos)

Mohammed Saad Iqbal never imagined that his 26th birthday would be the first of many spent behind the concrete walls and barbed-wire fences of Guantanamo [...]