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Saad Iqbal Madni, a 33-year-old former detainee at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, opened up to NBC News regarding his experiences as a prisoner at the famous facility. Madni says he still wakes up every morning screaming and crying.
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As of right now, there have been approximately 480 arrests and between 200 and 300 people were thrown into a temporary detention centre. Several people have been released from the centre. One recently released man spoke to DigitalJournal.com
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Diplomat Richard Colvin testified at the Military Police Complaints Commission in Ottawa on April 13. He said that he knew within a month of his arrival that war prisoners in Afghanistan were at a “high risk” of abuse and torture.
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Five police officers in Greece have been suspended and are being charged with torturing a detainee. This is not about water-boarding, it's a about how torture can be defined
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Omar Khadr may have won his case to be released from from Guantanamo Bay and be brought back to Canada, but he is still not back in Canada. The Canadian government announced this morning that it will appeal the decision again.
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Palau, a tiny island nation in South Pacific, has agreed to accept 17 Chinese Uighur Muslim prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay. In exchange, the U.S. will give $200 million in aid to the island nation.
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Moazzam Begg, a former detainee at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will play himself in a new Xbox 360 game called Rendition: Guantanamo
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The case of Binyam Mohamed,who was once held in Guantanamo Bay is to be looked at again by the High Court,it was announced today.
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The Guantanamo video showing the interrogation of a 16-year-old Canadian was secretly taped through an air-duct and is now being released to the public for the first time.
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A detainee in a Connecticut courthouse lockup managed to free himself by impersonating another detainee set to be bailed. When the identity mix-up was brought to light, the impersonator was able to flee the building.
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Detainee Headlines
An attempt by gunmen to free two detainees ends in a shoot-out in which five policemen and one detainee are killed.
Nato has resumed the handing over of Afghan detainees to the government, alliance officials say.
 Afghan investigators have accused the American military of abusing detainees at its main prison in the country, bolstering calls by President Hamid Karzai for the U.S. to turn over control of the facility and complicating talks about America's future role in Afghanistan.
Detainees in Syria's prisons are routinely and systematically tortured in what amounts to crimes against humanity, says Amnesty International.
Armed militias are threatening the security of large parts of Libya, Amnesty International warns, saying at least 12 detainees were tortured to death.
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The Government of Afghanistan decides to set free the jailed Taliban fighters from Afghan jails as part of the Afghan...
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Two very prominent Republican Congressmen, Representatives Paul Ryan of Wisconsin and Allen West of Florida, have been...
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Fellow Patriot’s, I decided to keep writing lately because my personal problem’s are small potatoes compared with...
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Another bad idea. Just like closing Gitmo. It's fun to watch the Obama administration twist in the wind on this issue....
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