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Guantanamo prisoners stay behind bars years after being cleared for release

President Obama didn't keep his promise of closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison, but has the White House even tried? A new report reveals that more than half of the…

12/06/2012Engin ummæliLesa Meira

Babar Ahmad case tramples on law and fair play

Along with four other British Muslim terror suspects, Ahmad has just lost a battle against extradition from Britain to the United States in the European Court of Human Rights. He…

21/04/2012Engin ummæliLesa Meira

Extremism, ethnic cleansing and nationalist rhetoric in Sri Lanka

Rhetoric1 derives from a long standing enquiry into the power of oral persuasion. It is linked to the combined use of language, symbology, mutually derived identity and relations between peoples…

09/04/2012Engin ummæliLesa Meira

Supermax – torture in US prisons

Solitary confinement is commonplace in US prisons. Most US states have over the last 30 years introduced specialised new segregation facilities, often referred to as "supermax." Around 80,000 people are…

28/03/2012Engin ummæliLesa Meira

Afghan civilian deaths spark calls for U.S. exit

The massacre of 16 villagers by a U.S. soldier has triggered angry calls for an immediate American exit from Afghanistan as Washington tries to negotiate a long-term presence to keep…

19/03/2012Engin ummæliLesa Meira

Obama signs order to close Guantanamo

Promising to return America to the "moral high ground" in the war on terrorism, President Obama issued three executive orders Thursday to demonstrate a clean break from the Bush administration,…

24/01/2012Engin ummæliLesa Meira

Terror suspect interview ruling due

The High Court is to rule on a challenge by the BBC over a Government refusal to allow it to film and broadcast an interview with a terror suspect detained…

11/01/2012Engin ummæliLesa Meira

Sri Lanka ‘still torturing’ Tamils

The UN has already found that evidence of the killing of up to 40,000 civilians amid allegations of serious human rights abuses amounted to "credible allegations" that war crimes had…

14/11/2011Engin ummæliLesa Meira