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Ninth Circuit Agrees That Former Guantanamo Detainee Lacks Grounds to Sue for Waterboarding by David Reutter On June 30, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a complaint filed by Abu Zubaydah, 52, a falsely accused Al-Qaeda conspirator captured after the terrorist attacks on …
Article • March 1, 2025 • from PLN March, 2025
Deal to Release Cuban Prisoners Upended by Among a raft of executive orders issued the day of his inauguration on January 20, 2025, Pres. Donald J. Trump (R) signed one reversing a decision by his predecessor to remove Cuba from a “blacklist” of nations accused of sponsoring terrorism. Though cheered …
The Mind-Breakers: the Case of Ramzi Bin al-Shibh by St Clair, Jeffrey By Jeffrey St. Clair   This article originally appeared in Counterpunch on October 6, 2023. It is reprinted here with permission. Read the original at https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/10/06/the-mind-breakers-the-case-of-ramzi-bin-al-shibh/   On the first anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Pakistani ISI (Inter-Services …
At the Federal Supermax, When Does Isolation Become Torture? by Alan Prendergast by Alan Prendergast, Westword You see them on TV, usually around the time they are arrested. Men who have declared war on America, combatants in a conflict that never ends. They are captured on the street and at airports, …
Article • July 6, 2018 • from PLN July, 2018
Filed under: War on Terror, Terrorism, CIA
ACLU Reaches Confidential Settlement in CIA Detainee Torture Lawsuit by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna Last year, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) entered into a confidential settlement with the CIA over “a torture program” designed and used against military detainees by two contractors, psychologists James Elmer Mitchell and John …
Article • June 13, 2018
Department of Defense: Art Created by Guantαnamo Bay Detainees Belongs to U.S. by Christopher Zoukis by Christopher Zoukis Professor Erin L. Thompson of John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City created a stir when she decided to curate an exhibit of art created by “enemy combatants” detained at …
Penal Reform International, Thailand Institute of Justice: Global Prison Trends, 2018 GLOBAL PRISON TRENDS 2018 SPECIAL FOCUS Pull-out section The rehabilitation and reintegration of offenders in the era of sustainable development Global Prison Trends 2018 This document is co-published and produced with financial assistance from the Thailand Institute of Justice …
Article • December 14, 2017
Filed under: War on Terror, Terrorism, FBI
D.C. Circuit Holds Bivens Not Available for Extraterritorial Incidents by On October 23, 2015, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit held that a man who had been detained, interrogated and tortured for four months in three African countries by and with the consent of FBI agents could not …
Article • December 12, 2017
Filed under: War on Terror, Terrorism
Fourth Circuit Allows Abu Ghraib Torture Suit to Move Forward by Christopher Zoukis The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has reversed a district court's ruling that a war crimes lawsuit brought by Iraqi nationals allegedly tortured by military contractors in 2003 and 2004 cannot go forward. …
Article • November 28, 2017
Report Finds Medical Professionals Facilitated Torture of Alleged Terrorists by Derek Gilna by Derek Gilna The Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centres issued a report slamming health care professionals voluntarily working with the military and intelligence communities who “[p]articipated in cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment …
PLN Interviews CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou by John Kiriakou is a former CIA officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and former counterterrorism consultant. He left the CIA in March 2004, later serving as a senior investigator on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and senior intelligence advisor …
Prison Legal News Interviews CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou - Full Interview by   Note: This is the full PLN interview with John Kiriakou; a shorter version was published as our April 2017 cover story, here. John Kiriakou is a former CIA officer, former senior investigator for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee …
Article • January 3, 2017
D.C. Circuit Orders Accidental Requirement for Sex Offender Registration Deleted from Sentence by In an October 27, 2015 decision, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the deletion of a requirement for sex offender registration a federal judge added to a sentence by accidentally checking the wrong box on a …
Are French Prisons Radicalizing Muslim Prisoners? by Joe Watson The demographics inside French prisons have become a hot-button issue in the aftermath of eleven terrorist attacks that have occurred in France since January 2015. At least six individuals involved in those attacks are believed to have been inducted into radical …
Abu Zubaydah: Torture’s “Poster Child” by Marjorie Cohn In August, Abu Zubaydah, who has been imprisoned at Guantanamo for 14 years without being charged with a crime, appeared for the first time before the U.S. military Periodic Review Board, which determines whether Guantanamo detainees will continue to be held as …
Full Senate Report on CIA Torture Remains Classified, Largely Unread by Matthew Clarke “I want to be absolutely clear with our people and the world. The United States does not torture” – George W. Bush On December 9, 2014, the Senate Intelligence Committee released a heavily-redacted, 525-page executive summary of …
Chicago Police Detective Accused of Brutality Used Similar Techniques at Guantanamo by Derek Gilna In an ironic twist of fate, a former Chicago police detective accused of acts of brutality against suspects in police custody has been cited for using similar tactics at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, …
Article • September 22, 2016
A Rare Glimpse of Abu Zubaydah 14 Years After First CIA Torture Session by By Margot Williams, The Intercept Abu Zubaydah, 45, made his first appearance Tuesday on video from Guantanamo in a hearing before a Periodic Review Board, 14 years after the last day of a month-long interrogation at a CIA …
UN Committee Against Torture Issues Report on United States by Matthew Clarke The United Nations Committee Against Torture issued a combined report encompassing its third to fifth periodic reports on the United States at its 1276th and 1277th meetings held on November 20, 2014. The report lauded some improvements under …
Navy Nurse Refuses to Force-feed Guantanamo Prisoners by Derek Gilna An unnamed Navy nurse at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba that houses alleged terrorist detainees, who was facing expulsion from the Navy for his refusal to participate in force-feeding prisoners, has been allowed to return to his …
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