Ex-Guantanamo Bay detainees demand evidence of their alleged torture is heard in public

October 22nd, 2009 Caretaker: Woman has changed torture story beforeCOLUMBUS, Ohio — A black Ohio woman who recanted allegations of being tortured by a group of white people in West Virginia has mental issues and has more than once changed her version of what happened, her current caretaker said Thursday. Valencia Daniels told The Associated Press that Megan Williams "goes back and forth, back and forth" about the 2007 allegations of being beaten, raped and tortured.

October 22nd, 2009 KUALA LUMPUR - At least six Sri Lankan refugees at a Malaysian detention camp have been on a hunger strike for more than seven days, demanding that they be allowed to meet officials from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), a news report said Friday. The six detainees, including a woman, are among 108 Sri Lankans currently in the camp located in Malaysia's southern state of Johor after they were detained at a hotel last month for not having valid travel documents.

October 16th, 2009 Court orders release of torture allegation detailsLONDON — Britain's High Court ruled Friday that the government must disclose secret details of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee's alleged torture. Judges said Foreign Secretary David Miliband should release undisclosed sections of a 2008 ruling on the treatment of Binyam Mohamed, despite Miliband's claim that to do so could harm intelligence sharing with the United States.

October 6th, 2009 CHENNAI - Tamil Nadu opposition leader J. Jayalalitha Tuesday denounced the ruling DMK's demand that Sri Lankan refugees in India should be given Indian citizenship.

October 4th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Expressing concern over the status and living conditions of foreigners, many of them Pakistanis, detained in camps for years, the Delhi High Court has asked the central government to explain why these people have not been deported to their own countries. Counsel Arvind Nigam told a bench of Chief Justice Ajit Prakash Shah and Justice Manmohan, that many foreign nationals have been languishing in Foreigners Regional Registration Office (FRRO) camps since 2006 and no effort has been made by the government to deport them back to their country.

September 27th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The US prison for suspected terrorist detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will not be closed by January 2010 as planned, US government officials said Saturday. According to a report by CNN, two members of the US administration stated that the planned date to close the facility would not be met due to unresolved legal questions.

September 23rd, 2009 Father: Iraqi perhaps slain in UK revenge attackLONDON — British soldiers laughed as they beat an Iraqi hotel receptionist to death, the man's father alleged Wednesday as he gave evidence to an inquiry into the slaying. Baha Mousa, 26, died in the custody of British troops after they went through a hotel in southern Iraqi city of Basra in September 2003 in a hunt for Saddam Hussein loyalists.

September 22nd, 2009 ACLU seeks Bagram Air Base detainee recordsNEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union in New York has sued the federal government, seeking to make public the records related to prisoners held at an air base in Afghanistan. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday in federal court in Manhattan, asks the court to order the Defense Department, the CIA and other agencies to reveal vital information about the detainees at Bagram Air Base.

September 20th, 2009 WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama rejected Sunday a request by several former heads of the country's intelligence community to end investigations into the alleged torture of terrorist suspects. Speaking to US broadcaster CNN, Obama said in rejecting the request that no one was above the law.

September 15th, 2009 UK military police investigate new Iraq rape claimLONDON — British military police were investigating an allegation that two soldiers raped and maimed an Iraqi man at a base in 2003, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday. The man's lawyer, Daniel Carey, said the alleged victim, who was 18 at the time, claims he was sexually abused by two male soldiers and then cut with a knife in the southern Iraqi city of Basra in May 2003.

September 15th, 2009 BAGHDAD - Muntadhar al-Zaidi, the Iraqi journalist who famously threw his shoes at then US president George W. Bush, Tuesday said he had been tortured with electric shocks while in custody.

September 10th, 2009 First Guantanamo Uighurs agree to go to PalauKOROR, Palau — Three Chinese Muslims detained at Guantanamo Bay formally accepted an offer to take up new lives in the Pacific island nation of Palau and could be moved there as early as next month, lawyers say. They were the first among 13 ethnic Uighurs held at the U.S.

September 9th, 2009 Lawyers: Uighurs agree to go to PalauKOROR, Palau — Three Chinese Muslims imprisoned for years at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay have agreed to be released to the tiny Pacific nation of Palau, their lawyers told The Associated Press.

September 9th, 2009 Lawyers: 3 Uighurs agree to go to PalauKOROR, Palau — Lawyers say three Chinese Muslims held for years at Guantanamo Bay have accepted an offer to relocate to the Pacific island nation of Palau. The deals are the first to be struck among 13 Uighur detainees at the U.S.

September 8th, 2009 Ex-UK prosecutor calls for intercept evidenceLONDON — The case against an al-Qaida gang that plotted to bring down trans-Atlantic aircraft proves that wiretaps and other intercept evidence should be allowed in British courts, Britain's former chief prosecutor said Tuesday. Three British Muslims were convicted Monday of plotting to murder thousands by downing planes using liquid explosives hidden in soda bottles.