Bagram: The other Gitmo
On January 16, 2008 William Fisher reported for the Asia Times that
“As last week marked the sixth anniversary of the arrival of the first orange-jumpsuit-clad prisoners at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, human-rights organizations are attempting to focus public and congressional scrutiny on what some are calling "the other Gitmo"...” Read More

US Lets Afghan Detainees, Families Talk
On January 15, 2008 Fisnik Abrashi reported for the Associated Press that “Fourteen months ago, U.S.-led coalition forces detained Noor Ahmad Agha's father during a nighttime raid in southern Afghanistan and took him to a secretive prison on the main American base hundreds of miles to the north, a place few outsiders have ever seen.” Read More

Defying U.S. Plan, Prison Expands in Afghanistan
On January 7, 2008 Tim Golden reported for the New York Times that “As the Bush administration struggles for a way to close the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a similar effort to scale down a larger and more secretive American detention center in Afghanistan has been troubled by political, legal and security problems, officials say….” Read More

500 Iraqis Freed From Crowded U.S. Detention Center
On November 9, 2007 Cara Buckley reported for the New York Times that “Nearly 500 Iraqi detainees were released at a ceremony at a sprawling United States detention center in western Baghdad early Thursday, where they were urged by Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki to “start a new life, a different life from months ago.”…” Read More

The New Gitmo: The Latest Legal Showdown Over Detainee Rights
On October 29, 2007 the Legal Times, http://www.legaltimes.com, ran an article by Joe Palazzolo which read
“Since U.S. soldiers took him from his home in Jalalabad last year, Haji Rohullah has been socked away in what is colloquially known as "the other Guantánamo" -- the Bagram Theatre Internment Facility, located about 27 miles north of Kabul in the largest U.S. military base in Afghanistan….” Read More

15 Executions Break Afghan Moratorium
On October 9, 2007 Jason Straziuso reported for the Associated Press that
“Ending a three-year moratorium on the death penalty, Afghanistan executed 15 prisoners by gunfire, including a man convicted of killing three foreign journalists during the U.S.-led invasion, the prisons chief announced Monday….” Read More

Afghanistan carries out executions
On October 8, 2007 Al Jazeera Net ran an article which stated
“Afghanistan has executed 15 people for crimes including murder, in the second confirmed executions since the fall of the Taliban government….” Read More

Fifteen executed in Afghanistan
On October 8, 2007 the BBC News ran an article which stated
Fifteen people in Afghanistan have been put to death for crimes including murder, government officials say.They say that the firing squad deaths are the second confirmed executions since the fall of the Taleban in 2001….” Read More

6 Years Later, US Expands Afghan Base
On Octber 6, 2007 Jason Straziuso reported to the Associated Press that
“Six years after the first US bombs began falling on Afghanistan's Taliban government and its al-Qaida guests, America is planning for a long stay. Originally envisioned as a temporary home for invading US forces, the sprawling American base at Bagram, a former Soviet outpost in the shadow of the towering Hindu Kush mountains, is growing in size by nearly a third….” Read More

Judge says U.S. must alert lawyer on detainee transfer-
On Octber 4, 2007 Henry Weinstein reported for the Los Angeles Times that “A federal judge in Washington ordered the U.S. not to transfer a detainee held in U.S. custody in Afghanistan without giving 30 days' notice to his attorney. U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler issued the ruling on behalf Haji Rohullah, who worked as a driver before being taken into custody by the U.S. in August 2006 at a farm owned by his family in Jalalabad….” Read More

Manila sees human rights lawyers as 'terrorists'
On Octber 3, 2007 Gerry Albert Corpuz’s article was published by upiasiaonline.com, it stated
“MANILA, Philippines, The Philippine government and the military establishment under the administration of President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo do not respect the practice of human rights lawyering and regard human rights lawyers as enemies of the state, therefore included in the terrorist listing of the ruling de facto military-civilian junta in Malacañang Palace….” Read More

Another detainee case put on hold
On September 13, 2007 Lyle Denniston post on SCOTUS Blog that “The detainees’ rights cases that the Supreme Court will hear at its next Term focus on prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, but the Court’s willingness to take on that dispute continues to have an impact on other captives, not at Guantanamo. On Thursday, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler turned down, for the time being, a Justice Department move to dismiss a case involving two Afghans who have been held in a U.S. military prison at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan….” Read More

Afghanistan 'sliding further into war'
On September 2007 Correspondents in Geneva reported to the Agence France-Presse that
“AFGHANISTAN is sliding ever further into conflict with more than half of the country affected and several regions out of reach of humanitarian aid, a senior international Red Cross official warned today. "The conflict is clearly spreading and in certain areas also intensifying," said Reto Stocker, head of the Afghan delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)….” Read More

Why is the U.S. stashing detainees at Policharki prison in Afghanistan?
On August 16, 2007 Slate ran an Op-ed piece by Eric Lewis which read “First Guantanamo, then Abu Ghraib, and now add Afghanistan's Policharki prison to the list of hellish U.S.-run prisons around the world. The United States has moved to Policharki Afghan detainees who have begun to challenge their confinement and treatment in American courts….” Read More

The Black Sites; A rare look inside the C.I.A.’s secret interrogation program
On August 13, 2007 Jane Mayer reported for the New Yorker that
“In March, Mariane Pearl, the widow of the murdered Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, received a phone call from Alberto Gonzales, the Attorney General. At the time, Gonzales’s role in the controversial dismissal of eight United States Attorneys had just been exposed, and the story was becoming a scandal in Washington….” Read More

Boumediene order's impact spreads
On July 18, 2007 Lyle Denniston posted on ScotusBlog that
“The Supreme Court’s surprise agreement on June 29 to rule again on the legal rights of detainees held by the U.S. military is having a widening impact, on Wednesday reaching a case involving a military prison run by U.S. forces in Afghanistan….” Read More

Detainee in Afghanistan wins ruling
On July 19, 2007 Henry Weinstein reported for the Lost Angeles Times that “A federal judge in Washington on Wednesday upheld the right of a Yemeni man held as an enemy combatant at a U.S. military prison in Afghanistan to seek his freedom. The ruling is the first issued in a case filed on behalf of a foreign detainee held by the U.S. outside the country or the Guantanamo Bay Naval Station. It comes less than a month after the Supreme Court said it would again consider the rights of detainees at Guantanamo in the fall….” Read More

What are the alternatives to Guantanamo?
On July 3, 2007 MSNBC’s Tom Curry reported
““Not in my backyard!”
That's the cry being heard about proposals to bring detainees at the Guantanamo Naval base to military prisons in Kansas, South Carolina, and Virginia….” Read More

Canada and Afghanistan work out deal on detainees
On May 3, 2007 Randall Palmer reported for Reuters that “Canada signed an agreement with Afghanistan on Thursday allowing it unfettered access to any prisoners handed over by Canadian troops, a move that responds to allegations that Afghan authorities were abusing detainees….” Read More

Saudi receives Qaeda figure held in Afghanistan
On May 7, 2007 Reuters reported “U.S. authorities have handed over to Saudi Arabia an al Qaeda figure who escaped from prison in Afghanistan and was then recaptured, the interior ministry said on Monday….” Read More

Tribeca Film Probes Death of Afghan Cabby Beaten by U.S. Guards
On April 26, 2007 Rick Warner reported for Bloomberg that “Alex Gibney's father, a former Naval interrogator who questioned Japanese prisoners in World War II, was furious to learn that U.S. soldiers were torturing prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan….” Read More

Judge Dismisses Lawsuit Against Rumsfeld
On March 27, 2007 Matt Apuzzo reported for The Associated Press that
“Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld cannot be tried on allegations of torture in overseas military prisons, a federal judge said Tuesday in a case he described as "lamentable."…” Read More

US Plans Afghan Jail for Terror Suspects
January 4, 2006 Jimmy Burns Rachel Morarjee reported for The Financial Times that “The US government has plans to build a high-security prison in Afghanistan to hold terror suspects, including some who would be transferred from the controversial US naval base at Guantánamo Bay. The site selected for the jail is Pol-e-Charki, a rundown prison near Kabul dating from the Soviet era…” Read More

Case Dropped Against U.S. Officer in Beating Deaths of Afghan Inmates
January 8, 2006, Tim Golden reported for the New York Times that “The Army has dropped its case against the only officer to face criminal charges in connection with the beating deaths of two prisoners held by the United States in Afghanistan, military officials said yesterday…” Read More

In U.S. Report, Brutal Details of 2 Afghan Inmates' Deaths
On May 20, 2005, Tim Golden reported for the New York Times that “Even as the young Afghan man was dying before them, his American jailers continued to torment him…” Read More

Army Faltered in Investigating Detainee Abuse
On May 22, 2005 Tim Golden reported for the New York Times that… “Despite autopsy findings of homicide and statements by soldiers that two prisoners died after being struck by guards at an American military detention center in Bagram, Afghanistan, Army investigators initially recommended closing the case without bringing any criminal charges, documents and interviews show…” Read More

'One huge US jail'
March 19, 2005 Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark reported for The Guardian that “Kabul was a grim, monastic place in the days of the Taliban; today it's a chaotic gathering point for every kind of prospector and carpetbagger. Foreign bidders vying for billions of dollars of telecoms, irrigation and construction contracts have sparked a property boom that has forced up rental prices in the Afghan capital to match those in London, Tokyo and Manhattan…” Read More

Details Emerge on a Brazen Escape in Afghanistan
On December 4, 2005, Eric Schmitt and Tim Golden reported for the New York Times that “The prisoners were considered some of the most dangerous men among the hundreds of terror suspects locked behind the walls of a secretive and secure American military detention center in Bagram, Afghanistan…” Read More

The Reach of War: Detainees, Officials Detail a Detainee Deal by 3 Countries
On April 4th, 2004, Don Van Natta Jr. and Tim Golden reported for the New York Times that “American officials agreed to return five terrorism suspects to Saudi Arabia from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, last year as part of a secret three-way deal intended to satisfy important allies in the invasion of Iraq, according to senior American and British officials…” Read More