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CIA torture report ‘not surprising’

Bahrainis previously imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay say a controversial report exposing CIA torture techniques comes as no surprise having experienced the horror of illegal American interrogation techniques first hand. Adel Kamal Ha

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Financial Times says sorry to Bahrain

International newspaper the Financial Times has apologised for mistakenly identifying Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa as a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay. The London-based daily published a photograph of Shaikh Kha

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Guantanamo spends $900,000 per inmate

It's been dubbed the most expensive prison on Earth and President Barack Obama cited the cost this week as one of many reasons to shut down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, which burns through some $900,000 per prisoner annually.

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WikiLeaks releases hacked US detainee rules

  The WikiLeaks website began publishing on Thursday what it said were more than 100 US Defense Department files detailing military detention policies in camps in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay in the years after the September 11 att

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Al Jazeera to broadcast Guantanamo film

A hard-hitting documentary about the last remaining Westerner in Guantanamo Bay, Omar Khadr, will get its first global airing on Al Jazeera English next week. The channel made the announcement today on the 10th anniversary of the prison’s

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Al Jazeera to broadcast Guantanamo film

A hard-hitting documentary about the last remaining Westerner in Guantanamo Bay, Omar Khadr, will get its first global airing on Al Jazeera English next week. The channel made the announcement today on the 10th anniversary of the prison’s

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Afghan Taliban 'may set up office in Qatar'

The Afghan Taliban said on Tuesday they have reached a preliminary agreement to set up a political office in Qatar, and asked for the release of prisoners held at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay.      The

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US to transfer Kuwaiti prisoner at Guantanamo

The Obama administration has decided to transfer overseas a Kuwaiti held at the US military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and will not appeal a court decision freeing him, the Justice Department said on Monday. In September, a US district

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UK Guantanamo four to be released

Four of the five British residents held by the US at Guantanamo Bay are to be released, the BBC said. The British Government requested the release of all five men in August after previously refusing to intervene as they were not British c

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16 Saudis return from Guantanamo Bay

Sixteen Saudis returned home on Thursday after the US released them from a prison camp at Guantanamo Bay where foreign terrorism suspects are held. The Saudi state news agency SPA said Interior Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz "express

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