In the wake of the much-redacted partial Senate report on CIA torture of Muslim prisoners in secret prisons across the world no American is, yet, facing trial, as international law against torture demands. (photo : Victoria Brittain (right) and Farida Aarrass) Two CIA secret sites inside Guantanamo – codenamed Maroon and Indigo – were identified…
Murat Kurnaz, jeune homme d’origine turque vivant à Brême, cherche à donner un sens à sa vie en se tournant vers l’islam. Peu après le 11 septembre 2001, il entreprend un pèlerinage au Pakistan pour y étudier le Coran. Il n’y parviendra pas : en chemin, il est arrêté et livré aux autorités américaines, avant…
The Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) confines 4.4 percent of its prison population in solitary confinement. Texas locks more people in solitary-confinement cells than twelve states house in their entire prison system. On average, prisoners remain in solitary confinement for almost four years; over one hundred Texas prisoners have spent more than twenty years…