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Human Rights News The 'Zero Dark Thirty' Controversy
| The 'Zero Dark Thirty' Controversy |
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January 16, 2013, New York, NY. -- In the wake of the release of the film Zero Dark Thirty, Professor Ramzi Kassem of the City University of New York School of Law has written a thoughtful and penetrating critique of the film, published yesterday by the Huffington Post. Together with the International Justice Network (IJN) and co-counsel, Professor Kassem and his students represent the petitioners in Al Maqaleh v. Obama, a landmark case in U.S. federal court. The Al Maqaleh petitioners are non-Afghan citizens whom the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) apprehended from third countries; tortured and abused at secret CIA “black sites”; and then forcibly rendered to Bagram Air Base, Afghanistan, for indefinite detention in U.S. military custody. The Al Maqaleh petitioners have been subjected to further torture and abuse at Bagram, where they have been held without charge or trial for the past ten years. The Al Maqaleh litigation will decide whether these men have the right to finally challenge their imprisonment before a U.S. court. |
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