US Military Prisons News

Actor Riz Ahmed turned stalker for the chance to play opposite Kiefer Sutherland in a new political thriller, writes Helen Barlow.

And every day, up to 100 of the 166 inmates send them back. They're protesting their ongoing imprisonment by going on hunger strikes for what is now 100 days.

Last Sunday was the 32nd anniversary of the death on hunger strike of Bobby Sands.

Hacker vigilante group Anonymous is marking the day with a "twitterstorm," implementing social media to bring greater awareness to the human rights violations going on at Guantanamo, particularly the indefinite detention of prisoners, many of whom have for years been cleared for release.

The hunger strike by prisoners at Guantanamo Bay has entered its 100th day. The U.S. military now says 102 out of 166 prisoners are on strike, while lawyers for the prisoners maintain the number is higher.

That's because, quite ironically, he's fallen into the War on Terror trap-the comfortable and comforting stereotype of angry Muslims as irrational ideologues armed with religious hair-triggers and little else.

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On Sept. 12, 2012, President Barack Obama vowed to "bring to justice" the perpetrators of the deadly attack in Benghazi, Libya.

"You've got one religious maniac, one malignant dwarf, two near-idiots, and the rest I don't even want to think about!" So barks the captain to the major in Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen , paraphrasing a psychiatrist's diagnoses of the eponymous convicts plucked from military prison's death row for a top-secret mission.

John Bellinger is the last person in Washington you'd expect to criticise President Barack Obama for making too many drone strikes.

In the early 1970s, the Justice Department went to court to prevent further publication in The New York Times of portions of a top-secret study, dubbed the Pentagon Papers, which was packed with damaging details about America's conduct of the Vietnam War.

OFER MILITARY PRISON, Palestinian: Protesters and Israel forces clashed in the West Bank yesterday as thousands of Palestinians commemorated the Naqba of the Jewish state's creation in 1948, during which 760,000 Palestinians fled their homes.

The former Obama Administration official lays it out in four parts, but is perhaps too deferential to have any impact.

As the Guantanamo hunger strike enters its 100th day, the number of voices, both in the US and around the world, to close the facility are growing stronger and louder.

In the latest news from Guantanamo Bay, detainees' lawyers are saying that the prisoners are now being forced to undergo intrusive body cavity searches before they can speak to their lawyers.

May 15 - The vast majority of prisoners at Guantnamo Bay [1] have been on hunger strike since 6 February [2]. The Pentagon currently puts the number of hunger strikers at over 100 of the remaining 166 prisoners, with over two dozen prisoners reported to be force fed in a method the UN has described as torture [3]. On Friday 17 May, the hunger ... (more)

A sking 62-year-old Atty. Gen. Eric Holder to resign, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Preibus called Holder's actions of obtaining two months of Associated Press mobile phone records unconstitutional.

Serving time in prison is not supposed to be pleasant. Nor, however, is it supposed to include being raped by fellow prisoners or staff, beaten by guards for the slightest provocation, driven mad by long-term solitary confinement, or killed off by medical neglect.

In a letter sent to British foreign secretary William Hague, a prominent human rights lawyer is alleging that Guantanamo Bay's hunger striking detainees are being threatened with humiliating body searches before they are allowed to contact legal counsel.

A guard looks out from a tower at the detention facility of Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba.