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Former Guantánamo detainees speak: Murat Kurnaz, Mamdouh Habib and Abdur...

Murat Kurnaz In a busy week for former Guantánamo detainees, Der Spiegel reports that the sole German ex-detainee, Murat Kurnaz –- born in Bremen but ignored by the German government until Angela...

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Revealed: Identity Of Guantánamo Torture Victim Rendered Through Diego Garcia

Using some old-fashioned clerical detective work, Reprieve, the legal action charity that represents around 10 percent of the remaining 240 prisoners in Guantánamo, has compiled a report, “Ghost...

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UN Secret Detention Report (Part Three): Proxy Detention, Other Countries’...

To complement my recent article, “UN Human Rights Council Discusses Secret Detention Report,” in which I explained how, two weeks ago, the UN Human Rights Council had — after some delays — finally...

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As Egyptians Call for Mubarak’s Fall, He Appoints America’s Favorite Torturer...

As the people of Egypt continue to show no willingness to tolerate any longer the 30-year dictatorship of President Hosni Mubarak, no one — least of all the Egyptian people — should be fooled into...

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Revolution in Egypt – and the Hypocrisy of the US and the West

For the United States and other Western countries, the popular uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt (which threaten to spread to other countries, including Yemen and Algeria) are something of a nightmare....

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As Mubarak Resigns, Ex-Guantánamo Prisoner Mamdouh Habib Reminds the World...

Less than 24 hours since he delivered a pompous, reality-defying speech, insisting that he would stay in power until elections in September, Hosni Mubarak, Egypt’s dictator for 30 years, has stepped...

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The Dark Desires of Bruce Jessen, the Architect of Bush’s Torture Program, As...

In another exclusive report for Truthout, my friends and colleagues Jason Leopold and Jeff Kaye continue to shine an unerring light on the Bush administration’s torture program (see previous examples...

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Torture and Terrorism: In the Middle East It’s 2011, In America It’s Still 2001

The gulf between what’s happening on the ground in the Middle East and the way it is perceived by the US intelligence services — as well as the gulf between how critics perceive America’s...

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WikiLeaks and the Guantánamo Prisoners Released After the Tribunals, 2004 to...

Please support my work! Freelance investigative journalist Andy Worthington continues his 70-part, million-word series telling, for the first time, the stories of 776 of the 779 prisoners held at...

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