Let's Honor the Guantánamo Lawyers

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Nancy Talanian
This month, NMG recognizes the hundreds of attorneys who have donated their time to make sure that prisoners at Guantánamo Bay have had legal representation. In the course of their work, they have also spent roughly $50,000 or more per prisoner out-of-pocket on translators, travel, research, legal filings, and the like. NMG hopes that Bagram prisoners may soon be awarded the right to challenge their detentions through the Great Writ. If that happens, several lawyers are ready to help Bagram prisoners challenge the legality of their detentions.

Northampton Friends Meeting Minute

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Friends Meeting, Northampton, MA

As Quakers we are spirit led by our Quaker values and confronted by our sense of justice, we declare to each other and our neighbors our profound desire to support all efforts to reestablish the lives and livelihood of those men wrongly incarcerated in Guantánamo Bay Prison who our government has determined pose no threat to our country.

If Military Commissions Are So Great, Why Only 3 in 8 Years?

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Nancy Talanian

Read this blog on Huffington Post and Common Dreams.

To hear the clamor for prosecuting Abdulmutallab, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and his alleged 9/11 co-conspirators by military commission, you might think commissions are better, cheaper, faster, and more appropriate than federal court trials and a sure-fire way to get stiff convictions.

Bagram Prisoner List

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In January 2010, the Obama administration finally released the list of prisoners held at the U.S.-run prison located at Bagram air base in Afghanistan.  Although the list was of little use, since it listed only names (and many captives have only one name), without home countries or the date or reason for capture, British author and journalist Andy Worthington has created an annotated list of the men, using previously available research data and the chronological nature of the government's prisoner numbering system.

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