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At least 40 Muslim clerics and scholars were arrested by soldiers on 13 and 14 August in cities along the costal Red Sea region. They are held incommunicado in undisclosed locations.
Call on your Members of Congress to respect the Supreme Court’s decision, and respect justice. Congress must not pass new legislation that would attempt to strip habeas corpus or replace it with an inadequate substitute. Ask Congress to respect the Supreme Court’s determination that the U.S. court system has the ability and the wisdom to hear these habeas petitions PDF format | RTF format
Jamie Leigh Jones was reportedly drugged, gang-raped and imprisoned in a container by fellow KBR co-workers in 2005 while working in Iraq on a U.S. Defense Department contract. Like the Abu Ghraib torture victims who still have not seen justice after more than four years, the abuse Jones says she suffered at the hands of private contractors over two years ago has not seen the light of a criminal trial. PDF format | RTF format
Amnesty International has received consistent reports that U.S. authorities have a network of secret detention centers around the globe, holding an unknown number of "war on terror" detainees in unknown conditions. In September 2005, Amnesty International spoke with Muhammad al-Assad, a man who had been caught up in this sinister system. He was effectively "disappeared" by the United States for over 16 months.
On January 19, Syrian Political Security officers arrested Abd al-Rahman al-Musa immediately upon arrival at Damascus Airport. He is now reportedly being held in incommunicado detention in Hama, western Syria, where he is at serious risk of torture. He was deported from the US after his application for asylum was turned down; he was denied protection under the U.N. Convention against Torture because he did not follow correct procedures for requesting that protection, according to his attorney
