- Steven Reisner, a founding member of the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology, speaking last night at a town hall meeting, where the American Psychological Association is holding its annual convention. Watch today’s Democracy Now! special report.
For years the government classified details about how former Baltimore resident Majid Khan was tortured at a CIA black site before he was transferred to Guantanamo Bay. Now details are finally coming to light that show he was waterboarded and subjected to forced rectal feeding, which his lawyers describe as a form of rape. Democracy Now! talks to Khan’s attorney about his client’s torture. Tune in at democracynow.org.
I wished they had killed me.
They are doing special things to special people in special places.
We found really ominous parallels between how he policed Chicago streets and what he did in Guantánamo Bay torture centers.
Meet the whistleblower speaking out against the government’s claims about the mysterious deaths of three Guantánamo prisoners on June 9, 2006.
The Pentagon said all three committed suicide, but were they actually actually tortured to death at a secret CIA black site at the base? Watch the Democracy Now! interview with Guantánamo whistleblower Joseph Hickman, a former Army staff sergeant and author of the new book, “Murder at Camp Delta: A Staff Sergeant’s Pursuit of the Truth About Guantánamo Bay.”
“Denying ourselves food and risking death every day is the choice we have made. I just hope that because of the pain we are suffering, the eyes of the world will once again look to Guantánamo before it is too late,” writes Samir Naji al Hasan Moqbel, one of hunger strikers imprisoned at the U.S. military base, in a letter published in the New York Times. Democracy Now! speaks to attorney Carlos Warner who represents 11 prisoners at Guantánamo. “Unfortunately, they are held because the president has no political will to end Guantánamo,” Warner says. “The president has the authority to transfer individuals if he believes that it’s in the interest of the United States. He doesn’t have the political will to do so because 166 men in Guantánamo don’t have much pull in the United States.“