tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18605774777967588322024-03-13T23:54:42.844-04:00The Guantánamo BlogFrom the Law Office of H. Candace GormanH. Candace Gormanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15947267626405585323noreply@blogger.comBlogger2179125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860577477796758832.post-80572677240314157112024-02-29T10:35:00.004-05:002024-02-29T10:36:47.110-05:00From Roger Fitch and our friends down under at Justinian. Danger ahead - falling rocksROGER FITCH ESQ • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2024Voting in America ... Gerrymanders and voter suppression give Republicans a whopping advantage ... The 14th amendment and its possibilities ... The post-Civil War reconstruction amendments ... Trump and the suspension of the Constitution ... Roger Fitch explains If more Americans had been ableCandacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551216220515434004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860577477796758832.post-1962532876132942012024-02-20T10:41:00.001-05:002024-02-20T10:41:11.069-05:00The Artists at Guantanamo I know I have mentioned how some of the men, who were never charged with any crime, took up painting and other artistic pursuits while waiting to be released. Upon release they had to fight to keep their art work- our government considered their art work to belong to the government. sigh. Anyway, another story with a different twist. This man was released and allowed to take his art work- Candacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551216220515434004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860577477796758832.post-44331332748355473362024-02-13T11:22:00.000-05:002024-02-13T11:22:55.252-05:00Former Guantanamo detainee goes to Bagram.... Of course Bagram is where most of the detainees were held before they were moved to Guantanamo. This is where the torture began for many of the men.Moazzam Begg has dedicated his life, since his release, to helping the men who were once held at Guantanamo.This is 25 minutes long but worth the look.Candacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551216220515434004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860577477796758832.post-3446418889504941232024-01-30T10:20:00.007-05:002024-01-30T16:46:49.674-05:00From Roger Fitch and our friends down under at Justinian. The Disunited States of AmericaROGER FITCH ESQ • MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 2024The cowboys of Texas ... Asserting control over immigration ... Operation Lone Star ... Confederate theory of secession is alive and kicking ... Usurping federal powers ... Trump judges to the rescue ... Wild defence claims in election conspiracy case ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington Candacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551216220515434004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860577477796758832.post-69477638671183082532024-01-23T16:27:00.001-05:002024-01-23T16:27:16.651-05:00You might ask??Why were these men at Guantanamo? Captured in Thailand for a bombing in Bali back in 2002.Well maybe they are one step closer to leaving Guantanamo. We shall see.Two Malaysian prisoners at Guantánamo Bay pleaded guilty on Tuesday to conspiring in the October 2002 nightclub bombings in the resort island of Bali, Indonesia, that killed more than 200 people.The guilty pleas were the first step in a Candacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551216220515434004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860577477796758832.post-59693707523846836672024-01-15T10:14:00.003-05:002024-01-15T10:14:36.957-05:00Former U.N. Special Rapporteur Fionnuala Ni Aolain on Gitmo's 22nd anniversaryThe former Rapporteur was a tremendous help in freeing my client, Saeed Bakhouch from the clutches of the Algerian government after his release from Guantanamo last spring. Click here for her reflections on Guantanamo and what the Biden administration could be doing....Fionnuala Ní AoláinFionnuala Ní Aoláin (@NiAolainF) is Executive Editor at Just Security. She served as the U.N. Special Candacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551216220515434004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860577477796758832.post-64755012428685502132024-01-11T19:55:00.003-05:002024-01-11T19:55:39.969-05:00The Talking Dog.... on the 22nd anniversary of Gitmo. Sigh. read the dog here---and yes, it is exhausting and frustrating and infuriating.And even with my two men out (and yes, my second client is now home with family- hopefully without further intrusion from the Algerian government) I still cannot fathom the idea that this place is still open.read the talking dog here:http://thetalkingdog.com/2024/01/11/22/Candacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551216220515434004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860577477796758832.post-91993762597888924942024-01-04T18:00:00.000-05:002024-01-04T18:00:00.114-05:0022nd anniversary of Guantanamo's opening next week- Jan. 11. Next week is the 22nd anniversary of the opening of the torture prison at Guantanamo. There are several events if you would like to participate in protesting the continuation of the prison:Thursday January 11: 22 years since the Bush/Cheney regime set up the U.S. torture
camp on Guantanamo, to imprison people outside the law. We demand it be closed now! Join us in
cities across the U.S.
Candacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551216220515434004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860577477796758832.post-26687631187057174822023-12-10T13:51:00.004-05:002023-12-10T13:51:39.254-05:00Remember guantanamo survivors - Human rights day. matching funds.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights outlines inalienable rights
for all, including the right to be free from torture and arbitrary detention,
and to a fair trial with presumption of innocence until proven
guilty. But these rights are meaningless unless upheld.
No one knows this better than Guantanamo prison survivors, who have endured
Candacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551216220515434004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860577477796758832.post-82942265149426313632023-11-30T11:46:00.000-05:002023-11-30T11:46:01.547-05:00musical tribute to the dead one.... Candacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551216220515434004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860577477796758832.post-53538928619858182282023-11-29T22:32:00.005-05:002023-11-30T11:47:05.252-05:00One war criminal dead….so many more to go. And yes rolling stone nailed it. Candacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551216220515434004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860577477796758832.post-91180567951392214782023-11-17T09:06:00.003-05:002023-11-17T09:08:02.876-05:00From Roger Fitch and our friends down under.Letter from WashingtonROGER FITCH ESQ • THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2023The 2023 supreme court term has opened, producing understandable unease because of the bad cases on its docket. The first of such cases, predicted to be its worst, was a 2nd Amendment, "gun rights" case, US v Rahimi, and concerned the right to keep and carry firearms when subject to a domestic Candacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551216220515434004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860577477796758832.post-36088051464040063232023-10-26T10:47:00.005-04:002023-10-26T10:47:44.557-04:00Special Rapporteur enters the End of Mission Statement and Mandate into UN permanent records This GA report supplements the End of Mission statement and
puts the mandate report into the permanent record of the United Nations.
The link is here: https://www.ohchr.org/en/documents/thematic-reports/a78520-report-special-rapporteur-promotion-and-protection-human-rights
It may also be useful to listen to the interventions of
Member States in the interactive dialogue, a Candacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551216220515434004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860577477796758832.post-75216417038766643342023-10-05T09:46:00.004-04:002023-10-05T15:24:13.803-04:00Some Good News UPDATED On April 20th of this year my last client at Guantanamo was released from the that hellhole after 21 years of detention with no charges ever filed against him. When he was released it was expected that he would be in the custody of the Algerian government for about 10 days. What was not expected, but what happened, is that the Algerian government threw him in prison. It was a fiasco that Candacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551216220515434004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860577477796758832.post-6198995959325663692023-10-03T09:57:00.006-04:002023-10-03T09:58:44.898-04:00From Roger Fitch and our Friends Down Under at Justinian The travesty of America's judiciaryROGER FITCH ESQ • MONDAY, OCTOBER 2, 2023Transformation of SCOTUS ... Alito and Thomas's ethical voids ... Rorting and stacking the courts in the Red States ... Circuit mischief ... Trump judges on the loose ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington After Donald Trump's presidency, no US government institution, however respected, mayCandacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551216220515434004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860577477796758832.post-17598717676696556532023-09-12T13:02:00.003-04:002023-09-12T13:02:50.786-04:00Lest we forget... Candacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551216220515434004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860577477796758832.post-73641712411127322862023-09-12T13:01:00.005-04:002023-09-12T13:01:48.542-04:00THE TALKING DOG ON 9-11..(fixed)Our 9/11 that is... The real (most poignant, anyway) legacy of 9-11, near as I can tell, is that the US government’s official policy went from torture is wrong and a serious crime (indeed, a crime against humanity) to what we’re doing isn’t really torture and if it is torture it’s not a big deal, and FUCK IT, TORTURE IS AWESOME! A military judge at GTMO of all places… kind of disagreed,Candacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551216220515434004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860577477796758832.post-83471743863821284642023-08-28T14:10:00.000-04:002023-08-28T14:10:10.622-04:00Military Commission Judge says no to torture From Andy Worthington:At the heart of Col. Acosta’s measured and devastating opinion is an appalled recognition that the extent of al-Nashiri’s torture, and its location with a system designed to break him and to make him entirely dependent on the whims of his interrogators to prevent further torture, made it impossible for him to have delivered any kind of uncoerced self-incriminating Candacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551216220515434004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860577477796758832.post-41223316856260032512023-08-24T11:56:00.001-04:002023-08-24T11:57:00.788-04:00From Roger Fitch and our friends down under. Accused felon at largeMonday, August 21, 2023Justinian in Donald Trump, Indictment, Roger Fitch Esq, US Presidential election, US politicsThe Washington and Atlanta indictments of Donald Trump ... A large number of lawyers as indicted gangsters ... History of unpunished Republican crimes ... First attempt to hold lawless politicians and operatives to account ... Quandaries and Candacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551216220515434004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860577477796758832.post-33900673143895027412023-08-04T15:12:00.003-04:002023-08-04T15:12:43.211-04:00The forever war legacy I have been representing men at Guantanamo for more than 17 years... but not quite 18. Karen Greenberg has been covering all things Guantanamo for more than 18 years-. Her latest at Tomdispatch.com does a nice recap including "Shutting Down Gitmo Is Hardly the Last Step."read the whole thing here.Meanwhile-- I am plugging away trying to get my last client out of the Algerian prison-- with Candacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551216220515434004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860577477796758832.post-15905241893231162622023-07-28T11:10:00.000-04:002023-07-28T11:10:04.826-04:00LETTER TO STATE DEPARTMENT RE: MY CLIENT SAEED BAKHOUCH 23 organizations (including the ACLU and Amnesty International) signed on to a letter to the state department demanding that the State department intervene in my client's arrest in Algeria and force the Algerian government to live up to the assurances it made to the State Department when Saeed was released. So far the state department has not responded-- but apparently the state department Candacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551216220515434004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860577477796758832.post-36692854874430081662023-07-26T12:38:00.000-04:002023-07-26T12:38:00.131-04:00The Intercept reports on my client ......... read the whole article here.State Shirking ResponsibilityGorman has continued to try to spur the State Department into action on Bakhouch’s behalf. Nearly two full months after Bakhouch was imprisoned in Algeria, Kadainow finally replied with specifics, saying she had “a chance” to speak with relevant diplomatic colleagues.“Our Ambassador in Algiers was informed that Mr. Candacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551216220515434004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860577477796758832.post-77288405343549964832023-07-14T15:30:00.005-04:002023-07-18T09:55:21.430-04:00From Roger Fitch and Our Friends Down Under The infallibility of SCOTUSROGER FITCH ESQ • TUESDAY, JULY 11, 2023US Supreme Court makes it up as it goes along ... Contrived cases to fit a reactionary agenda ... Plaintiffs with no standing ... Further indulgence for religious discrimination ... Under-equipped judges on a rampage ... Roger Fitch reports from Washington The supreme court is in free-fall, an outlawCandacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551216220515434004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860577477796758832.post-55387241552992018742023-07-07T11:17:00.000-04:002023-07-07T11:17:08.295-04:00No surprises here....Men, like my Algerian client, were tortured at the hands of the US and have never received the help they so desperately need. As reported in The Guardian today:The first UN investigator to be allowed to visit Guantánamo has called on the US government to provide urgent rehabilitation treatment for the men it tortured in the wake of 9/11 to repair their severe physical and Candacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551216220515434004noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860577477796758832.post-44643102731620139932023-06-26T17:21:00.000-04:002023-06-26T17:21:48.356-04:00INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SUPPORT FOR TORTURE VICTIMSToday the UN released their latest report on Guantanamo "Technical Visit to the United States and Guantánamo Detention Facility by the Special Rapporteur on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms while Countering Terrorism." Link to the report is here. The report is comprehensive and addresses some of the issues that have come up with the men that have been Candacehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08551216220515434004noreply@blogger.com0