Conditions at Guantánamo Are Cruel and Inhuman, U.N. Investigation Finds The report was the result of the first visit by an independent human rights investigator to the prison in its two-decade history.
At Guantánamo’s Court Like No Other, Progress Is Frustrated by State Secrets The U.S. government is still sorting out what’s secret in an Indonesian bombing case more than two decades after the attack.
Hunger Strikes Have Long Served as a Tool of Nonviolent Protest The actions are almost always political, and governments sometimes resort to force-feeding, a practice denounced as inhumane. But deaths like that of a Palestinian prisoner this week are uncommon.
Ex-C.I.A. Psychologist Re-enacts Interrogations for Guantánamo Court Lawyers for a Saudi prisoner had the psychologist show some of his practices in an effort to exclude evidence as derived from torture.
Doctor Denounces C.I.A. Practice of ‘Rectal Feeding’ of Prisoners In a hearing at Guantánamo Bay, an expert gave a graphic public depiction of torture after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.