Link: PRESS STATEMENT
Link: Boumediene Decision
Press Contact: Mahdis Keshavarz
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June 12, 2008, New York, NY--In today's decision in Boumediene v. Bush,
No. 06-1195----the United States Supreme Court today stated beyond all
doubt that the rule of law is alive and well in this country and that
the three branches of government--the executive, legislative, and
judicial branches--are once again functioning as they should be in the
world's strongest democracy.
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Mr. Jawed Ahmad
International Justice Network Continues Legal Battle Against Human
Rights Abuses by the Bush Administration in the “War on Terror”
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June 3, 2008, New York, NY—Attorneys from the International Justice Network (IJNetwork) filed a lawsuit today against the U.S. government seeking the release of 22-year old Canadian Television (CTV) journalist, Jawed Ahmad. Ahmad has been held incommunicado by the U.S. military for more than six months without charge at the notorious United States Air Base in Bagram, Afghanistan, where several confirmed instances of detainee abuse and deaths have occurred.
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May
16, 2008, New York, NY--
Attorneys from the International Justice
Network (IJN), the organization who has championed the rights of innocents
held at US prisons in Afghanistan, today expressed outrage over recent
revelations by the Justice Department that they are holding youth under the age
of 18 at the notorious adult prison. In a report released to the United Nations
Committee on the Rights of the Child, the United States government admitted to
holding over 90 children in Afghanistan, including 10 children who currently
remain at the Bagram prison among the adult population.
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On April 11, 2008 the United Nations Human Rights Council will hold its first Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of the Philippines. Member states plan to carefully look at the human rights record of the Philippines in a three-hour meeting in Geneva. The “disappearances” and killings of countless politicians,social activists, and journalists should be at the center of discussion at the Review in Geneva. The Philippines is the first country to be examined under the Universal Periodic Review and will serve as a precedent for future countries called into Review by the Human Rights Council.
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stern.de April, 2008
He spent over four years in Guantánamo Bay, the infamous US
detention camp. The tale of Murat Kurnaz, as told by himself, will hit
US bookstores this week. In his first interview since his release from
Guantánamo Bay in 2006, Kurnaz tells Germany's "Stern" magazine all
about torture, solitary confinement, being humiliated, and his life in
fear.
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"Guantánamo is a place without laws, that is what it was created for"
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"Although the German government knew that I had never broken any laws,
although they had no evidence against me, although they knew that I had
been tortured, they left me in Guantánamo for over three more years."
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Did you cry as well [when you were reunited with your family]?
"Everybody cried. I did not. I do not know if I can still cry. Perhaps I forgot how to cry on Cuba."
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