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Scholar Leads Effort to Catalog Civil-Rights Abuses at Guantanamo Baynew

As director of UC Davis' Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas, Almerindo Ojeda is heading up a project to collect testimonies on civil rights abuses at the detention center.
Sacramento News & Review  |  Kel Munger  |  11-24-2009  |  War

New Mexico National Guard Returns from Guantanamo Baynew

Last month, more than 70 New Mexico guardsmen came home from a year-long deployment to the US military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — one of the most controversial outposts in George W Bush’s "war on terror."
Santa Fe Reporter  |  Corey Pein  |  02-12-2009  |  War

Waging a PR War at Guantanamonew

U.S. officials are working hard to convince journalists that the military commission trial of Canadian Omar Khadr is fair. This is quite a feat given that Khadr is heading into a courtroom without a full investigation of charges that he was interrogated without access to legal counsel and under torture.
NOW Magazine  |  Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine  |  11-03-2008  |  War

The Truth About Torturenew

As America debates, survivors around the world honor a day of remembrance.
Boulder Weekly  |  Grace Hood  |  06-26-2006  |  War

Anatomy of a Murdernew

When Bush speaks of human rights, it's not only our enemies around the world that scoff.
The Village Voice  |  Nat Hentoff  |  02-07-2006  |  War

Illegal Intentnew

A Baltimore activist makes an illegal trip to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to protest the U.S. war in Iraq.
Baltimore City Paper  |  Edward Ericson Jr.  |  01-25-2006  |  War

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