HELIOLITH

Amnesty released an extensive report last week, and I started a post, but ran out of time. Amnesty called for an end to “the gulag of Guantanamo,” alleging that the US has “thumbed its nose at the rule of law and human rights.” In a press release on their site, Irene Khan […]

The BBC writes of a newly declassified FBI report, that was released today after requests from the ACLU. The report documents that at least one inmate had raised allegations in 2002 that the Koran was mistreated and flushed down a toilet. It’s odd how quick so many seemed to pretend it was absurd […]

I just got home from giving my friend his birthday present. I brought him to the Story Corps sound booth in Grand Central Station and interviewed him. His stories and my questions are now part of the Library of Congress. I have been planning this for about two weeks, and I got super nervous right […]

The Slate today mentions (without linking to) an activist group of physicians, “Physicians for Human Rights” who were co-recipients of the Nobel Peace prize in 1997 for their work to ban landmines. In a report released today PHR reveals that “…extensive evidence that psychological torture was systematic and central to the interrogation process of […]