Obama Considers Repatriating Foreign Prisoners from Bagram
Ten years ago, foreign prisoners, seized in other countries, began to arrive in the US prison at Bagram airbase in Afghanistan. Some were held in a secretive part of the prison, and had often passed...
View ArticleBagram: Still a Black Hole for Foreign Prisoners
Back in March 2009, three foreign prisoners seized in other countries and rendered to the main US prison in Afghanistan, at Bagram airbase, where they had been held for up to seven years, secured a...
View ArticleRadio: On the BBC World Service, Andy Worthington Discusses the US’s Latest...
This morning, I was interviewed on the BBC World Service’s “World Update” programme about Bagram prison in Afghanistan, and the latest news from the facility, in the long, drawn-out process of the US...
View ArticleTwo Long-Term Yemeni Prisoners Repatriated from Bagram; Are Guantánamo...
Last week there was some good news from Bagram, in Afghanistan, bringing one of the many long injustices of the “war on terror” to an end, when Amin al-Bakri and Fadi al-Maqaleh, two Yemenis held...
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