- The Torture Archive The National Security Archive has published and cataloged a remarkable collection of over 83,000 primary source documents relating to US policy and practices of detention, interrogation and torture during the so-called war on terror. “The goal of the The Torture Archive is to become the online institutional memory for essential evidence on torture. Specifically, the […]
- Guantánamo Bay archive project Another interesting project announced recently, also with a significant web component, is the Guantánamo Bay Detention Center Archive. The archive was conceived by Mark Denbeaux and Jonathan Hafetz, attorneys representing several Guantánamo detainees as well as professors of law at Seton Hall University; and co-directed by Michael Nash, director of NYU’s Tamiment Library. […]
- US secret detentions: from hotel room to squalid prison cell [via GV/WITNESS] [Originally published here as part of WITNESS’s collaboration with Global Voices Online – this post was written by Gavin Simpson] When President George W. Bush confirmed in a speech last month that the CIA has been operating a programme of secret detentions on foreign territory, it was portrayed by the United States Government as part […]
