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This week's episode features an interview between Julian Assange, a former Gitmo prisoner and a human rights campaigner fighting for those still imprisoned.
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The Guantanamo Bay detention camp was established in 2002 by the Bush Administration to hold detainees from the war in Afghanistan (and later Iraq). It hosts hundreds of persons imprisoned, interrogated and held without charge or trial.
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Washington -
The Obama administration announced on Tuesday it is doing everything “as quickly as possible” to shut down its US prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a move which will likely lead to increased objections over the facility’s closure.
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The recent release of documents by WikiLeaks details the ghastly goings-on at Guantanamo and the treatment detainees received in U.S. custody, and reveals, among other things, a myriad of war crimes committed by the Bush administration.
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New Delhi -
India voted against a Guantanamo UN resolution in 2005 in what appeared to be an attempt to impress the US, according to a US diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks today.
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Lahore -
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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Geneva -
An American contingent headed by Michael Posner met with the UN Human Rights Commission on November 5 for the first ever review of the human rights record of the United States.
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Canadian Omar Khadr pleaded guilty on Monday to all five charges against him, including murder, at the U.S. military war crimes tribunal at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba.
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On Wednesday Radhika Coomaraswamy, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict called for Omar Khadr to be released into Canadian custody.
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The United States will raise at least 100 tents around their military base in Guantanamo to help Haiti earthquake victims to relocate. If it is successful, the military will erect 1000 more.
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Majid Khan, the first "high value" Guantanamo detainee to face conviction, pleads guilty to terror offences in exchange for a reduced sentence.
Five Taliban detainees held at Guantanamo Bay agree to be moved to custody in Qatar as an incentive for peace talks in Afghanistan, Afghan officials say.
U.S. to buy prison and use it to house detainees from Guantanamo Bay.
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Defence lawyers tell reporters the 9/11 hearing at Guantanamo Bay is unfair, and is protected by a 'veil of secrecy'.
 A "frustrated" Omar Khadr could be back in Canada by the end of May, with both Ottawa and Washington poised to approve his transfer from Guantanamo Bay.
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