Gitmo Lawyer threatened with jail time...

As the talking dog reported yesterday, attorneys at Reprieve have been threatened with jail time for writing to President Obama about the torture one of their clients was subjected to. Click on the title for more...

Bagram will not become the new Gitmo

Many of us were worried that Bagram was to become the new Gitmo with men (and women and children) being moved there from all over the world and held without charge. Judge Bates just made an important ruling and said that those men who were moved to Bagram by the US could challenge their detention in US courts...

Judge Grants Another Habeas Corpus Petition

I believe the score is now 24 out of 28 habeas petitions that have been heard have been granted. Unfortunately almost all of the men who have been ordered to be set free still languish at the hell hole.

Talking Dog Interviews Dick Cheney

Stuff you just cannot make up

From wikipedia: The Universe is defined as everything that physically exists: the entirety of space and time, all forms of matter, energy and momentum, and the physical laws and constants that govern them.

Remember the above when you read this.

America must free the innocent at Guantanamo

I don't know this for sure... but I would guess that I would not agree with many of the things this particular writer has to say... but I agree with this.
Click on the title to read...

Off Topic

Only a little. Since I am here in The Hague I am blogging from the International Conference on Afghanistan for In These Times.... click on the title.

AND JUST IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING....

Sorry, I meant to post this the other day. Torture is not just illegal and immoral...it is stupid.

Administration Review Team Clears Second Detainee for Release

Yesterday the review teams set up to determine if the men being held at Guantanamo should be released or charged determined that Dr. Ayman Batarfi should be released and they have promised to release him within 30 days. The first prisoner released by the review team was Binyam Mohamed. Click on the title for Carol Rosenberg's report.

Torture News

http://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2009/03/fco_finally_adm.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/intelligence-services-reveal-concern-on-15-torture-cases-1656167.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/lawandorder/5063053/Torture-inquiry-reveals-15-new-cases.html

http://harpers.org/archive/2009/03/hbc-90004641

http://www.harpers.org/subjects/NoComment

http://my.earthlink.net/article/int?guid=20090330/49d051d0_3421_1334520090330-926489572

about that fourth estate

Exactly the reason so many of us have taken to blogging...

Talking Dog interviews George Clark

Click on the title to read the interview with habeas attorney George Clark. George admits the awful truth about being a habeas lawyer: we have not done much for our clients... but we keep trying.

Senate report to finally be released

Click on the title for more details... this is the report on the abuse of prisoners at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib...

Guantanamo Lawyer Decries McConnell

Click on the title to see Habeas attorney David Cynamon's letter to the Washington Post.

Spain Opens Criminal Investigation into the Bush Torture Lawyers

The Highlights From El Pais on Friday:

1. As a Spanish citizen and a Spanish resident were at Guantanamo Spain can base jurisdiction on passive personality and does not need to use universal jurisdiction--or at least a "pure" universal jurisdiction without contacts to the state.
2. At this moment there may well be European wide arrest warrants for the lawyers and others.
3. While there is some effort to change the law in Spain in regards to universal jurisdiction, it seems unlikely to affect a case concerned with crimes against Spaniards.
4. Immunity cannot protect them from this.
5.Yoo and others will no longer be traveling to Europe without risk.

Harper's Scott Horton has more... click on the title.

THANK YOU SPAIN.