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'A Cancer on America': Panel Urges Obama to End Indefinite Detention at Gitmo
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/10-4

Happy Mothers Day: From Guantanamo to Yemen
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/05/10-3

Congressional Briefing Urges Obama to Use His Authority to Close Guantánamo
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2013/05/10-3

Gitmo Activists Mark 100th Day of Hunger Strike With Media 'Storm'
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/05/17-0

Shining a Light on Solitary Confinement
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/05-7

Bradley Manning Is Guilty of ''Aiding the Enemy'', If the Enemy Is Democracy
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/05

The Judicial Lynching of Bradley Manning
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/06/10-2

What It s Like to Spend Years in Solitary Confinement
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2013/08/05

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Death is Preferable to Life at Obama s Guantanamo

By Marjorie Cohn

The detainees who are refusing food have been stripped of all possessions, including a sleeping mat and soap, and are made to sleep on concrete floors in freezing solitary cells.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34887.htm



'Don t They Realize We Are Human?'

Yemeni Mothers of Gitmo Prisoners Want Freedom For Their Sons.
http://tinyurl.com/d5yvar8



Americans Demand Closure of Guantanamo Bay Prison

Video

Activists have gathered in front of the White House, calling on US President Barack Obama to close the Guantanamo Bay Prison. As a result of the protest, Pennsylvania Avenue was closed down.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34902.htm



America s 10 Worst Prisons

Prisoners fear ''that it's not safe to take a shower, that it s not safe to go to sleep...that you can be manipulated into sexual favors, it s really horrific.''

http://is.gd/p6sg62



5 Unsavory Ways America Conducts Its Global War on Terror

By Alex Kane

America s allies are terrorists, warlords, and corrupt officials, plied with bounty payments and quid-pro-quo assassinations.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34919.htm



Eroding Freedom in America

By Stephen Lendman

US democracy is illusory. America never was beautiful. It s not the land of the free and home of the brave. It wasn t created that way.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34928.htm



Gitmo Lawyer Speaks Out

Video

In this interview with WeAreChange, Remes gives us a look at the current situation in gitmo, the start of the hunger strike and some of the personal stories of the detainees he represented.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1euvKiLRLI



Guantanamo: Doctors, Nurses Made to Brutally Force-Feedings On Prisoners

The 30-page manual states that nurses and doctors are essentially on hand to carry out the military policy. These force-feedings are carried out by these medical professionals regardless of whether the prisoner grants consent.

http://is.gd/Zey3Mv



Guantanamo Bay prisoner: President Obama has 'abandoned' detainees

''I believe that President Obama must be unaware of the unbelievably inhumane conditions at the Guantanamo Bay prison, for otherwise he would surely do something to stop this torture,'' Yemeni prisoner Musa'ab Omar Al Madhwani wrote in a federal court declaration this year.

http://is.gd/QxLdk6



100 Days of Hunger Strike: US no closer to Gitmo shutdown

Video

Around thirty hunger-strikers are being subjected to force-feeding, a controversial tactic condemned by the UN and the international medical community as inhumane. And all those numbers are only likely to grow.

http://is.gd/899JRM



Rights Groups Ask Pentagon To Stop Force-Feeding Gitmo Hunger Strikers

The American Civil Liberties Union, Center for Victims of Torture, Human Rights Watch and 17 other groups wrote the Pentagon on Monday...[calling] Guantánamo's force-feeding process ''inherently cruel, inhuman, and degrading.''

http://is.gd/45GfEs



100 Days of Guantanamo Hunger Strike: Special Coverage

Video Report By RT

RT discusses the stand-off with former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg, Attorney Pardiss Kebriaei, the legal representative of 8 Guantanamo detainees, military attorney Lt. Col Barry Wingard on the line from the detention camp, and Col. Morris Davis, former Chief Prosecutor for the Terrorism Trials at Guantanamo Bay.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34984.htm



Hunger strike, Yemeni dilemma could spur Guantanamo closure plans

The European Parliament, the United Nations' human rights commissioner, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and U.S.-allied governments have stepped up criticism of conditions they see as driving desperate captives to starve themselves.

http://is.gd/XkqOTx



4 Inhumane Realities about the Guantanamo Hunger Strike

Thirty of the 166 prisoners held at Guantanamo are being subjected to force-feeding, a practice that's considered torture and in violation of international law by the UN human rights office

http://is.gd/PldBh6



The Reason for Hunger Strikes-from Northern Ireland To Guantanamo

By Ann Wright

President Obama would be wise to call former hunger striker and now Northern Ireland Parliamentarian Pat Sheehan.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35026.htm



'Force-feeding of hunger strikers at Gitmo is torture'

Sara Flounders, co-director of the International Action Center slams the force-feeding of inmates at the notorious U.S.-run prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba as a ''form of torture''.

http://is.gd/vhxnwT



Force-feeding Guantanamo hunger strikers 'abusive'

The UN and American Medical Association have condemned the force-feeding of 37 detainees on a four-month-old hunger strike at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay.

http://is.gd/gHuFS3



Bradley Manning: Prisoner of Conscience

By Francis A. Boyle

Where are the ''good'' Americans? Well, there are some good Americans. They are getting prosecuted for protesting against and resisting illegal U.S. military interventions and war crimes around the world.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35188.htm



US Gulag: Force-Feeding Is Ugly

An Illustrated Guide

At Guantanamo Bay, 44 hunger strikers are kept alive with an incredibly painful, ethically questionable, and politically sensitive procedure. Here, in excruciating detail, is how it works.

http://is.gd/gdaKHf



The Horrible Psychology of Solitary Confinement

In the largest prison protest in California s history, nearly 30,000 inmates have gone on hunger strike. Their main grievance: the state s use of solitary confinement, in which prisoners are held for years or decades with almost no social contact and the barest of sensory stimuli.

http://is.gd/0KmPUJ



Washing U.S. Hands of the Dirty Wars

News Coverage Erases Washington s Role in State Terror

By Kevin Young

U.S. news outlets have usually ignored the role of the U.S. government in supporting these murderous right-wing regimes through military aid and diplomatic support. This pattern also applies to press coverage of current U.S.-backed ''dirty wars,'' in Honduras and elsewhere.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35635.htm



US: Assassination of Citizens, Uncounted ''Collateral Damage'' and a Law Suit

By Felicity Arbuthnot

''My grandson was killed by his own government. The Obama administration must answer for its actions and be held accountable.''

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35636.htm


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Survivors of Solitary Confinement

Staff, Making Contact: Many believe that solitary confinement is a modern form of torture in the American prison system. Making Contact interview nine former inmates who had to endure complete isolation for days, months, and in some cases, years at a time.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/17551-survivors-of-solitary-confinement



Torture by Design: Saying No to the Architecture of Solitary Confinement and Cruelty

Staff, Angola 3 News: As the horror of solitary confinement comes under increasing scrutiny in the US and around the world, human rights activists are confronting this public health and safety epidemic from a variety of angles.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/18322-torture-by-design-saying-no-to-the-architecture-of-solitary-confinement-and-cruelty



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