The US Senate has given the go ahead to President Barack Obama’s decision to close the infamous military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Senate passed by a 79 to 19 vote to allow the government to transfer detainees from the prison to the US soil for trial or transfer them to their home countries.
The [...]
By Huma Yusuf
US President Barack Obama dominated headlines last week for tossing out George W. Bush’s plans for a missile defence shield in Eastern Europe.
The praise with which that decision was met globally will probably help mask the fact that another announcement earlier in the week, regarding the Bagram detention facility in Afghanistan, led [...]
- 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, [...]
A startling new development in the case of Dr Aafia Siddiqui has emerged following the recent release of a British resident from Guantanamo.
Torture victim Binyam Mohamed says he witnessed the detention of Dr Aafiya at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan in a testimony which contradicts the official position forwarded by the US Government that she and [...]
KARACHI, Jan.15, (APP): The hearing of a constitution petition filed by an NGO Human Rights Network seeking safe return of Dr Afia Siddiqui was adjourned here on Thursday by a division bench of High Court of Sindh (SHC) comprising Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali and Justice Faisal Arab.
When the matter was [...]
In ‘Global assault on local peace’ (December 3), I suggested that three basic tactics which become clear from the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui are dirty media, inquisition trials and ‘Zeroland’.
Dirty media is “the tool with which an individual or nation could be declared guilty without trial,” as I suggested. We can see this pattern [...]
Islamabad(ANI): Pakistani “terror suspect” Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who is on trial in the United States, has alleged that one of the interrogators at the Bagram Air Force base in Afghanistan was an Indian.
According to a report prepared by the by Pakistan Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Dr Aafia has narrated her entire story to [...]
Islamabad—A human rights body of the senate has urged the government to engage more intensely at the highest level with America to secure the repatriation of Dr Aafia Siddiqui.
A Joint Meeting of the Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was held at the Parliament House [...]
ISLAMABAD: Chairman Senate’s Standing Committee for Defence Nisar Memon has urged to summon US ambassador in the session and present a charge sheet against USA for an making objectionable video of Dr Aafia in New York jail.
The joint meeting of the Standing Committees for Human Rights and Foreign Affairs held in Parliament House under the [...]
KARACHI: A division bench of the Sindh High Court (SHC), comprising Chief Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali and Justice Faisal Arab, expressed extreme displeasure over the government’s failure to submit comments or show any development in Dr Aafia Siddiqui’s repatriation case.
The bench was hearing a constitutional petition filed by the Human Rights Network, seeking the safe [...]
