A cache of a quarter-million confidential American diplomatic cables, most of them from the past three years, provides an unprecedented look at back-room bargaining by embassies around the world, brutally candid views of foreign leaders and frank assessments of nuclear and terrorist threats. The material was originally obtained by WikiLeaks, an organization devoted to revealing…
August 17, 2010 The association “Alternativa Culturale dei Marocchini in Italia” (Cultural Alternative of Italian Moroccans) is providing for Iftar to Moroccan prisoners in the Lazio region during the period of Ramadan. This project is coordinated by the foundation Hassan II and the Ministry of Moroccan Community Abroad. The Guarantor of the prisoners’ rights in…
After eight years of detention in Guantanamo Bay, Arkin Mahmud and Bahtiyar Mahnut were sent to Switzerland to resettle, the Justice Department announced. Switzerland decision to accommodate the brothers led the US Supreme Court to back from a case on Uighur detainees in Guantanamo. The case dealt with detainees to be released while they have…
In its efforts to close Guantanamo, the federal government is aquring a portion of the Thompson Correctional Center, a supermax prison in northwestern Illinois, to house 100 detainees. The Obama Administration promised Illinois Governor Quinn the detainees will have no interaction with other inmates. Minority congressional Republican leader John Boehner claims that two pieces of…
Detainees with alleged al-Qaida links could be relocated to Bulgaria. As part of the process of deciding whether to oblige the US’s request for the transfer, the governments are working together so that all information regarding their legal status is disclosed. Prime Minister Boiko Borisov stated that taking an inmate would be a strong gesture…
