The Bowels of Kahrizak by Reza Yavari August 11, 2009 Many persons who protested the results of Iran’s July election were arrested and sent into an infamous prison called Kahrizak, located south of Tehran, opened two years ago as a “temporary” facility and ordered closed two weeks ago by direct orders of Khamenei. —- Editors (CounterPunch) I do not [...]

This is the second of two articles that examine the history of the Bush-era interrogation program. A Window Into CIA’s Embrace of Secret Jails

The South Louisiana Correctional Center has seen five hunger strikes in one month, as detainees are denied medical care and access to legal libraries. by Aura Bogado August 7, 2009. When more than 60 prisoners at the South Louisiana Correctional Center in Basile, LA, began a hunger strike last week, in protest of the facility’s deplorable conditions, [...]

by George Palaczyk and Beth Hundsdorfer August 7, 2009 More than 250 calls came into Gov. Pat Quinn’s offices Thursday during a statewide protest concerning conditions at the Tamms Correctional Center prison, where many inmates have been held for longer than 10 years in continuous solitary confinement. The protest, organized by the Tamms Year Ten Committee, was sparked [...]

by Bob Egelko August 10, 2009 The Obama administration is fighting on multiple fronts – in courts in San Francisco, Washington and London – to keep an official veil of secrecy over the treatment of a former prisoner who says he was tortured at Guantanamo Bay.

by Naomi Wolf July 25, 2009 There’s a McDonald’s on the high street, suburban houses, rats the size of dogs and 229 of the world’s most high-profile prisoners. Six months after President Obama declared that he would close it down, Naomi Wolf heads to Guantánamo Bay to see whether anything has changed.

by Glenn Greenwald July 21, 2009 A task force appointed by President Obama to issue recommendations on how to close Guantanamo announced yesterday it will miss its deadline and instead needs a six-month extension, potentially jeopardizing Obama’s promise to close Guantanamo within a year.  The announcement was made in a briefing given by four leading Obama officials, [...]

by Mumia Abu-Jamal July 7, 2009 While a young reporter for a local NPR affiliate, housing was my beat. In a city which was the oldest in the United States, there were no shortages of housing issues, for Philadelphia’s housing stock seemed in a permanent state of disrepair, especially in those sections of the city where Blacks, Puerto [...]

Jonathan Cook, Foreign Correspondent May 16, 2009 Nazareth, Israel // The United Nation’s watchdog on torture has criticised Israel for refusing to allow inspections at a secret prison, dubbed by critics as “Israel’s Guantanamo Bay”, and demanded to know if more such clandestine detention camps are operating. In a report published on Friday, the Committee Against Torture requested [...]

Justice on trial aims to highlight cases where there are major concerns of a miscarriage of justice. Duncan Campbell and Eric Allison explain why ‘It’s like being buried alive’ Miscarriage of justice cases have undermined public confidence in the criminal justice system. John Kamara, Paddy Hill and Sean Hodgson describe their experiences Fuente: The Guardian