Suit seeks complete Gitmo transcripts From MiamiHerald.com A Guantanamo detainee walks past cell doors at Camp 4, the most liberal detention facility at the U.S. Navy base at Guant namo Bay, Cuba, on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2007. GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- Accusing the Pentagon of a cover-up, human rights lawyers Thursday filed suit against the Bush administration seeking the full transcripts of military hearings held here for the alleged senior leadership of the al Qaeda terror network. Wizner, an observer here for this week's military trials, said...

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Syria blasts 'hypocritical' addition to US torture blacklist From AFP DAMASCUS (AFP) Syria accused the United States of hypocrisy on Wednesday after it added the Damascus regime to a blacklist of "the world's most systematic human rights violators." "The deaf ear turned by the US adminstration towards the recent Israeli human rights violations in the Gaza Strip and its killings of children, shows how little importance it attaches to human rights.

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'There are no bad apples in this world' From Epoch Times In what has become known as the Stanford Prison Experiment, a handful of bright and optimistic university students were transformed in just six days into a gang of sadistic prison guards who were determined to "break" their fellow classmates. So when, in 2004, Zimbardo saw bags placed over the heads of Iraqis in Abu Ghraib prison and them being subject to humiliating and abhorrent torture, he immediately saw the parallels. "Many of the pictures that were shown were similar if not more...

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UN torture envoy says US deny access to Iraq jails From Reuters Iraq and insisted a visit could help clear its legacy of the prison abuse scandal in Abu Ghraib. Manfred Nowak, United Nations special rapporteur on torture, said he had received credible information the situation had improved at U.S. detention facilities in recent years, but stressed only a visit would allow him to verify them. Nowak, who has an Iraqi government invitation for his Oct 18-26 planned visit, said he would also expect full access to Iraqi-run detention facilities, although this...

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The Final Act of Abu Ghraib From dandelionsalad.wordpress.com This was the last court-martial that the Army would convene in the most notorious scandal of the Iraq War, the end of the road from Abu Ghraib that began in the spring of 2004 when photographs of naked, humiliated prisoners and smiling GIs first flashed around the world. Jordan had been the highest-ranking officer living at the prison when those photos were taken, and he was the only officer the Army chose to prosecute. The government had begun its pursuit of Jordan more than three years...

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