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13th July 2004, 01:49 PM
“It has been three years since they used the word ‘father’ to anyone… Every day her grandfather gives the youngest money and she goes to buy something for her father, but in the end she had to eat it as he is not there." (Brother of Guantanamo detainee, Saeed Ahmed al-Sarim)

Cageprisoners.com, keeping alive the plight of the Muslim prisoners of war at Guantanamo Bay Concentration Camp in Cuba.

EX-DETAINEE DESCRIBES HELL IN US PRISONS

"As days went by, I realized that I would end up in a tomb”

Wesam Abdul-Rahman, a Jordanian who was released from Guantanamo earlier this year, broke his silence this week, speaking for the first time about his horrific experiences in US prisons (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2339) and how US soldiers defiled the holy book of the Muslims, the Qur’an. (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2357)



LETTERS FROM PRISON

CAMP X-RAY: ABDULLAH IBN THANI FARIS AL UNAYZI (http://www.cageprisoners.com/prisoners.php?lid=80)

“Put chains around my hands and burn my chest, Yet you can never siege my mind for a moment”
The first in a series of inspiring extracts translated by Cageprisoners.com from the letters of Abdullah ibn Thani Faris al-Unayzi, from AlQaisumah in Saudi Arabia, who is now being held in Guantanamo Bay.

BRITAIN’S GUANTANAMO: A WITNESS AND A CALL (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2281)


From behind the bars of Belmarsh, Britain’s high-security prisons, Muslim inmates held under emergency powers address the world in this letter, in which they describe an oppression no less than the accounts that have surfaced from Guantanamo and Iraq.


IMAGES

Inside Guantanamo: In Pictures (http://forums.cageprisoners.com/showthread.php?p=2280)

Andres Leighton of the Associated Press was recently granted the most extensive access yet allowed for an independent photographer inside the US detention and interrogation centre at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Here we present a selection of his images which were cleared by the US military for publication.

Former Detainees
Rasul Kudayev (Russian) (http://www.cageprisoners.com/prisoners.php?pri_id=251)
Wesam Abdul Rahman (Jordanian) (http://www.cageprisoners.com/prisoners.php?pri_id=540)
Released Afghan Detainees (http://www.cageprisoners.com/gallery.php?img_id=551)




AUDIO
O Mother, Do Not Shed A Tear On My Captivity (http://www.cageprisoners.com/dn_files/mama.ram)
Arabic nasheed (poem)



ARTICLES


Belmarsh Prison - Britain's Guantanamo-lite (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2321)
by Steve Crawshaw
Tony Blair's government has belatedly discovered an enthusiasm for due process where Camp Delta is concerned. So why isn't it minding its own back yard, asks Steve Crawshaw of Human Rights Watch

A World Apart At Gitmo (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2367)
by Kay Luna
Kay Luna felt a little like a prisoner herself when she spent three days in Guantanamo Bay two years ago as a visiting journalist. So she was astounded by the extreme change in media access and the smiling detainees described by the Associated Press this week which causes her to wonder what is really going on over there.

Nuaimi & Watt On The Treatment of Mamdouh Habib (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2368)
by Jayne-Maree Sedgman
Qatar's former justice minister has told the SBS network's Dateline program he knows Habib was tortured in Egypt and was prepared to sign anything to stop the torture.

AP Tours Guantanamo Bay Detention Centre (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2341)
by Paisley Dodds
Sliding a knight into attack mode with a meaty hand, a terrorism suspect teaches his unarmed interrogator chess, grinning at his opponent and pausing briefly to look at a manual that U.S. officials believe holds key intelligence.

A Blow For Freedom (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2343)
by Conor Gearty
The supreme court ruling that Guantánamo Bay prisoners can challenge their detention in the US is almost certain to lead to hundreds being released.

A Question Of Principle - Why Michael Ratner Took The Guantanamo Cases (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2356)
by Fred Bruning
As a New Yorker who lived through Sept. 11. when Michael Ratner contemplated aiding Guantanamo suspects, the civil liberties lawyer had doubts.

Supreme Court Orders A Step Back From Lawlessness (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2331)
by William Pfaff
What should be said about the adoption of torture by the largest and most influential democratic state in the modern world?

Q&A: US Supreme Court Guantanamo Ruling (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2338)
by BBC News Online
The United States Supreme Court has ruled that prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay can take their case that they are unlawfully imprisoned to the American courts. BBC News Online looks at the issues involved.

Long Island Nazi Case Set Precedent For Military Tribunals (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2342)
by Connie Cass
A German submarine slipped through dark waters toward New York's Long Island in June 1942, creeping so close it bumped the sandy bottom. A second settled into shallows along the Florida coast. Each sent ashore four men, who dragged crates of explosives up the beaches. Both supporters and opponents of Bush’s military tribunals use the German saboteurs' case to buttress their arguments.

Guantanamo Defence Team Taking On System (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2325)
by John Hendren
What bothered Lt. Cmdr. Swift was that his client — along with five other prisoners in the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — had been selected to have his case heard before a special military tribunal that would operate outside the framework of American and international law.

Young Muslims 'Made Scapegoats' In Stop And Search (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2308)
by Rosie Cowan
Police are scapegoating and alienating Muslims in the wake of September 11, community leaders warned yesterday as Home Office figures revealed that stop and searches of Asians under new anti-terror laws soared 302% in a year.

The Meaning of the US Supreme Court Rulings On “Enemy Combatants” (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2310)
by Barry Grey
The decisions handed down June 28 by the US Supreme Court on the Bush administration’s detention of alleged terrorists as “enemy combatants,” including hundreds of non-Americans at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and two US citizens being held in Navy brigs in the US, have vast implications for the democratic rights of the American people.

Suspects' Rights: A Guide To What The Police Can & Can't Do (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2301)
The rights of suspects go hand in hand with police powers.

The Advocates: Scrappy Group of Lawyers Show Way For Big Firms (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2291)
by Adam Liptak and Michael Janofsky
The Center for Constitutional Rights, the scrappy left-leaning public-interest group that filed the first lawsuits on behalf of people detained as suspected terrorists in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, works out of an office in Lower Manhattan, not far from some of the biggest law firms in the nation. But until the cases reached the Supreme Court, the group fought almost alone.

Hamdi, Padilla, and Rasul vs. Rumsfeld and Bush, et al: Who Won? (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2292)
Forget what the media’s talking heads have told you about these three Supreme Court decisions that tested the power of George W. Bush. The President won far more than he lost.


NEWS

Belmarsh Detainees In Court Appeal (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2362)

Doubt Cast On Repatriation Of Detained Britons (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2348)

Pakistani Government: US Took Habib (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2350)

Moussaoui's Mental Health May Be an Issue (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2351)

Blunkett To Outlaw Religious Hatred (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2355)

Jordan Requests Information on Guantanamo Detainees (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2358)


US Claims Released Detainees Return to Fight (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2359)

Detainee Will Challenge US Tribunals (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2360)

Hicks Movie To Premiere In Adelaide (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2361)

Civil Rights Protest Outside Terrors Suspects' Appeal (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2363)

Six Detainees Charged Over USS Cole Attacks (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2364)

Downing Street Press Conference: Four Britons in Guantanamo Bay (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2365)

Detainee Files Sought (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2366)

Habib's Lawyer Takes Aim At Government (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2369)

UK Not Ready For Guantanamo Four (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2344)

Swedish Detainee Soon To Be Released (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2345)

Detainees Not Part Of Deal With US - Lawyer (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2346)

Dirty Bomb Suspect Padilla Odd Man Out In Ruling (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2347)

'Britain's Guantanamo Bay' Fury Ahead of Appeal (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2349)

Call For EU Anti-Terror Crackdown (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2352)

Indonesian Arrest 3 Carrying Tons of Potassium Chlorate (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2353)

Arrests At Embattled Azeri Mosque (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2354)

Three Bahrainis To Challenge Detention (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2329)

Rights Lawyers Get Go-Ahead (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2330)

Terror Suspect Due In Court (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2332)

Ex-Qatar Minister Nuaimi To Sue Bush, Rumsfeld (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2333)

Afghan Militia Accused in Detainee Death (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2334)

Khadr Closer To Day In Court (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2335)

Pakistani Provinces Asked To Monitor Ex-Gitmo Detainees (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2336)

Hicks' Lawyer Rejects Cheney's Fair Trial Claim (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2337)

Straw Quizzed Over 'Saudi Deal' (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2340)

Officials Detail a Detainee Deal by 3 Countries (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2316)

Kuwaiti Detainees in Guantanamo Allowed to Meet With Lawyers (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2317)

Guantanamo Lawyers Confident of Success (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2318)


Pakistani Police Detain Doctors (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2319)

Government May Back Britons' Bid To Leave Guantanamo (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2320)


Hicks Will 'Receive Fair Trial' (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2322)

Bahrain Still Investigating Released Detainees (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2323)


Israeli Interrogators 'In Iraq' (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2324)


The Guantanamo Detainees: Getting Heard (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2326)


Libya Arrests "Terrorists" (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2327)

Reforming Guantánamo (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2328)

Court Asked to Hear First Guantanamo Cases (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2305)


Family Steps Up Fight For Guantanamo Man's Freedom (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2306)


Muslim Anger Over Stop and Search (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2307)


Father Welcomes Britons' Challenge (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2309)


Prisoner Abuse in Afghanistan Investigated (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2311)


Indonesia Opens Anti-Terror School (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2313)


US Troops Charged Over Iraq Detainee Death (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2314)


Police Closing On Bali Bomb-Maker (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2315)


Nightmare Goes on after Guantanamo Release, MPs Told (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2290)


Mother Puts Her Hopes In U.S. Ruling (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2293)


US Prosecutors Drop All Raps Against Saudi Student (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2294)


Lawyers Demand Detainee Access (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2295)


Afghan Militia Accused In Detainee Death Under Investigation By U.S. Military (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2296)


US Hints at Guantanamo Releases (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2297)


Lawyers Sue Over Tapes With Detainees (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2298)


The Detainees and the Bush Tyranny (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2299)


Rise In Police Searches Of Asians (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2300)


Indonesia Demand Hambali Access (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2302)


Hicks, Habib Would Walk Free: PM (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2303)


Defense Official: No Plans to Move Detainees from Guantanamo (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2304)


Supreme Court's Combatant Rulings Seen As Confusing (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2312)


U.S. Facing Guantanamo Decision (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2274)


U.S. Struggles With Guantanamo Ruling (http://cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2275)

Guantanamo 'Could Be Closed' (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2276)

Guantanamo Detainee Case Sent To California (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2277)


Muslim Cleric Abu Hamza In Court (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2278)


Indonesian Police Arrest Six Terrorist Suspects (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2279)


Marriott Bomb Aides Jailed (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2280)


'Dissident' Azeri Mosque Raided (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2282)


Council Resolution Would Back Begg Group (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2283)


Habib May Be Permitted To See Lawyer (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2284)


"I Apologise To All Muslims For What My Country Has Done' (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2285)


Bush Administration Considering Release Of Some Guantanamo Detainees (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2286)


No Justice For Hicks: Mori (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2287)


Government Urged to Help Guantanamo Britons Use US Courts (http://www.cageprisoners.com/articles.php?aid=2289)


COMING SOON

Interviews with Khalid al-Odah and Rabiye Kurnaz

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