February 15, 2006

Guantanamo report puts pressure on stubborn US
A United Nations investigation has declared that the US committed acts amounting to torture at Guantanamo Bay and has called for it to close its holding pen for suspected terrorists... Read more

February 12, 2006

Revealed: the terror prison US is helping build in Morocco
The United States is helping Morocco to build a new interrogation and detention facility for Al-Qaeda suspects near its capital, Rabat, according to western intelligence sources... Read more

January 25, 2006

White House given a rough handling over treatment of suspects
The Bush Administration's battle to treat suspected terrorists the way it wants may go on as long as the "War on Terror"... Read more

January 22, 2006

Hunger strikers close to death
Despite force feeding by the American military, several hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay may be close to death, according to lawyers acting for the detainees... Read more

January 20, 2006

Leaked paper reveals effort to stifle CIA flights debate
Jack Straw will try today to deflect criticism of the Government's handling of the "rendition" scandal, after a leaked Foreign and Commonwealth Office document proposed that the debate be stifled... Read more

January 06, 2006

Al-Qaeda suspect fears torture after extradition order
A British al-Qaeda suspect told a judge who ordered his extradition to the United States on terror charges yesterday that he fears he will be sent to Guantanamo Bay and tortured.... Read more

December 28, 2005

Guantanamo suspect faces appeal over British passport
Charles Clarke is to fight a High Court ruling granting British citizenship to an Australian terror suspect held at Guantanamo Bay... Read more

December 18, 2005

MI5 'colluded with CIA' over suspect sent to torture jails
Lawyers for a former pupil at a top British independent school have accused the government of colluding with the CIA to send him to a series of prisons where he was abused... Read more

December 14, 2005

Prisoner is now British 'and should be released'
The Government should ask the US to free an Australian-born detainee at Guantanamo Bay who yesterday won the right to British citizenship, his lawyers and family say... Read more

December 06, 2005

All right, it can work - but let's keep the thumbscrew under lock and key
In San Gimignano, when the tourist tires of all that piazza and vista stuff, she can always take a break and go and visit the museum of torture... Read more

December 05, 2005

Rice faces growing anger over claims of CIA abductions
Condoleezza Rice, the US Secretary of State, will try to dismiss mounting concern over alleged CIA human rights abuses in Europe when she embarks on a four-day tour of the Continent today... Read more

December 04, 2005

Condi goes on offensive over secret CIA jails
Under siege over allegations of secret CIA detention centres in Europe, Condoleezza Rice, the American secretary of state, is to go on the offensive when she meets European allies this week... Read more

November 19, 2005

Envoys reject Guantanamo invite
UN human rights investigators have rejected an invitation to visit Guantanamo Bay prison camp, Cuba, on the ground that Washington would not allow them to interview detainees... Read more

November 14, 2005

America's prisoners in paradise
Guantanamo is a reproach to us all - but how long before the package holidays start?... Read more

November 08, 2005

Supreme Court to rule on legality of Guantanamo trials
THE US Supreme Court is to rule on the legality of military tribunals to prosecute Guantanamo Bay terror suspects, it was announced yesterday... Read more

October 18, 2005

Should Britain be relying on evidence obtained by torture?
Can evidence obtained abroad under torture be relied on in terrorism cases in Britain? The House of Lords has started to hear an appeal from the ruling of the Court of Appeal in August 2004 that it can, provided the Government has neither procured the torture or connived at it... Read more

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