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  • Uighurs and China's Xinjiang Region
    Uighurs and China's Xinjiang Region Author: Preeti Bhattacharji, Research Associate Updated: July 6, 2009 ...
  • Rights report targets Canada over missing women, land claims
    Rights report targets Canada over missing women, land claims Last Updated: Thursday, May 28, 2009 | 8:47 AM ET Comments40...
  • Charges dropped against 5 Guantanamo detainees
    Charges dropped against 5 Guantanamo detainees U.S. defence secretary calls for swift closure of prison Last Updated: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 | 8:11 PM ET Comments20...
  • Judge orders release of Uighurs into U.S.
    Judge orders release of Uighurs into U.S. Last Updated: Tuesday, October 7, 2008 | 1:45 PM ET Comments3...
  • Guantanamo detainees were tortured, medical exams show
    Guantanamo detainees were tortured, medical exams show Last Updated: Wednesday, June 18, 2008 | 5:31 AM ET Comments109...
  • US rejects Guantanamo closure call
    US rejects Guantanamo closure call ...
  • Scholar: There is no clash of civilisations
    Scholar: There is no clash of civilisations by Firas Al-Atraqchi in Cairo, Egypt Tuesday 20 December 2005 2:07 PM GMT Armstrong was in Cairo as a guest of the American University One of the foremost authorities on monotheistic religions and traditions, Karen Armstrong's writings on Islam have come into public focus following 9-11. Born in 1944, Armstrong began her journey to faith as a Roman Catholic nun but left her order in 1969 when s...
  • U.S. bans use of torture
    U.S. bans use of torture Last Updated Wed, 07 Dec 2005 17:39:09 EST CBC News The United States has made a clear, direct, unequivocal statement about the use of torture. Its official policy now is to honour the United Nations ban on cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment, not just at home, but around the world as well. * INDEPTH: US Security Condoleeza Rice (File photo) Questions about torture, secret prisons and myste...
  • Rice says cruel interrogation barred, leaves questions about U.S. practices
    Rice says cruel interrogation barred, leaves questions about U.S. practices 15:26:09 EST Dec 7, 2005 ANNE GEARAN KYIV, Ukraine (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice gave Washington's most comprehensive accounting yet of U.S. rules on treatment of prisoners in the war on terrorism Wednesday, but her assurances left loopholes for practices akin to torture. Rice said cruel and degrading interrogation methods are off limits for all U.S. personnel at h...
  • White House blamed for Iraq abuses
    White House blamed for Iraq abuses by Thursday 17 November 2005 5:12 AM GMT Karpinski: I was made a scapegoat by my colleagues The former US commander of Abu Ghraib prison says that she was held up unfairly as a scapegoat by "male warriors", but the real blame for the abuse scandal rests with military leaders and the White House. In her newly released autobiography, One Woman's Army: The Commanding General of Abu Ghraib Tells Her Story, ...
  • Guantanamo ordeal of Aljazeera cameraman
    Guantanamo ordeal of Aljazeera cameraman by Asim Khan & Mahfoud El Gartit Wednesday 26 October 2005 9:06 AM GMT Sami al-Hajj says he has suffered physical and sexual abuse Sami Muhy al-Din al-Hajj, a Sudanese national, was arrested by the US military while working for Aljazeera during the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, and detained in Guantanamo for four years without trial. Aljazeera.net spoke to al-Hajj's lawyer, Clive Stafford-Sm...
  • Aljazeera cameraman 'asked to spy'
    Aljazeera cameraman 'asked to spy' by Monday 26 September 2005 7:36 AM GMT Al-Hajj has been in Guantanamo prison after his arrest in 2001 An Aljazeera cameraman, held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, has been promised release if he spies on his colleagues at the channel, Britain's The Guardian newspaper reports. The Guardian reported on Monday that the US military told Sami Muhyi al-Din al-Hajj that he would be released as long as he a...
  • Geneva Convention not for al-Qaeda, U.S. court says
    Geneva Convention not for al-Qaeda, U.S. court says Last Updated Fri, 15 Jul 2005 16:06:21 EDT CBC News An appeal court in Washington has ruled that the 1949 Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners does not apply to members of al-Qaeda. The decision clears the way for a military commission consisting of three U.S. colonels to judge Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a prisoner in Guantanamo Bay, who was Osama Bin Laden's driver in Afghanistan. Prisoner...
  • Guantanamo inmate forced to wear bra, act like a dog: report
    Guantanamo inmate forced to wear bra, act like a dog: report Last Updated Wed, 13 Jul 2005 17:21:06 EDT CBC News A suspected terrorist was forced to wear a bra, dance with another man and behave like a dog during his interrogation at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, military investigators said Wednesday. * INDEPTH: Guantanamo Bay The investigators called for Army Maj. Gen. Geoffrey Miller to be reprimanded because he did not oversee the interro...
  • Qur'an thrown in toilet by U.S. guards: ex-prisoner
    Qur'an thrown in toilet by U.S. guards: ex-prisoner Last Updated Tue, 28 Jun 2005 12:58:50 EDT CBC News A Muslim cleric once held at the U.S. prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has told reporters in Moscow that fellow prisoners told him that guards desecrated the Qur'an by putting it in a toilet. * INDEPTH: Guantanamo A Guantamamo Bay cell block. (AP file photo) Airat Vakhitov, who was released last year, said he did...
  • US 'admits' torturing prisoners
    US 'admits' torturing prisoners by Friday 24 June 2005 2:04 PM GMT A committee is preparing for hearings in May 2006 Washington has for the first time acknowledged to the United Nations that prisoners have been tortured at US detention centres in Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan and Iraq, a UN source says. The admission was made in a report submitted to the UN Committee against Torture, said a member of the 10-person panel, speaking on condit...
  • Torture at Guantanamo Bay: UN investigators
    Torture at Guantanamo Bay: UN investigators Last Updated Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:48:10 EDT CBC News There are reliable reports of prisoners being tortured at the U.S. base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, United Nations human rights investigators said Thursday. * INDEPTH: Guantanamo They say many of the allegations come from declassified United States government documents. The investigators also accused the U.S. of stalling on the...
  • No plans to close Guantanamo Bay, Cheney says
    No plans to close Guantanamo Bay, Cheney says Last Updated Sun, 12 Jun 2005 22:27:29 EDT CBC News U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney says there are no immediate plans to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison, which holds hundreds of people accused of links to terrorists. * INDEPTH: Guantanamo Bay "The important thing here to understand is that the people that are at Guantanamo are bad people," he said in an interview to be aired Mond...
  • US rejects calls to shut Guantanamo
    US rejects calls to shut Guantanamo by Tuesday 07 June 2005 7:45 AM GMT The Pentagon opened the prison in January 2002 The Pentagon has rejected a call to close its Guantanamo prison and declined to express regret over five cases of US jailors "mishandling" the Quran there. Bryan Whitman, a senior Pentagon spokesman, said on Monday that the United States was not considering shutting the Guantanamo jail as suggested by a senior Senate De...
  • U.S. admits abuses to Qur'an in Guantanamo
    http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/06/03/quran050603.html?print U.S. admits abuses to Qur'an in Guantanamo Last Updated Sat, 04 Jun 2005 07:59:17 EDT CBC News The U.S. Pentagon confirmed Friday a list of abuses involving the Qur'an, Islam's holy book, by American personnel at Guantanamo Bay, but said the incidents were relatively minor. * INDEPTH: Afghanistan A story published in Newsweek last ...
  • Probe finds 5 cases of Qur'an 'mishandling' at Guantanamo Bay, commander says
    http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050526/w052670.html...
  • Amnesty likens Guantanamo Bay to 'gulag'
    http://www.cbc.ca/story/world/national/2005/05/25/guantanamo-amnesty050525.html...
  • US probes Afghan prison torture
    On the heals of revelation that the Red Cross warned the US of Qur'an abuse complaints since 2002 now we see that there is a new scandal in Afghanistan Prison's. Given what know about Guantanamo Bay and Iraq this should not be a surprise. http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/623EE454-BA53-44C1-B086-7672F15E3804.htm...
  • White House says U.S. suffered lasting damage from Newsweek article
    http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050518/w051854.html It appears the WhiteHouse is trying to claim they are the victim of a conspiracy when they themselves use anonymous sources to give credibility to their actions. I wonder if it's more likely that Newsweek's source was found by the US government and threatened to rebuke his statement. The US denied Abu Ghraib until the pictures came out. I would also note Newsweek's argument, that there have been many reports about thi...
  • Afghans protest reported desecration of Qur'an at US jail in Guantanamo
    http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/050510/w051038.html...
  • More comments about the recent Uighur and Han violence in Xinjiang
    I am very saddened at the violence in Xinjiang, where fellow Chinese (Han and Uighur) have been fighting amongst each other. I hope that the people of Xinjiang will not fall into the trap and violence that was set by separtists. Regardless of your ethnic background, China has the policy that "everyone is Chinese" and that achieving peace and harmony can only be done through equal treatment of all citizens. I also do not think it is fair to villify Uighurs ...
  • Uighur/Uyghur Ethnic Muslims Protest in Urumqi, Xinjiang Comments about China, Islam and establishing the facts
    Ithink it's important to establish the facts here, many of which are in stark contrast to what is being reported in media. I also don't believe Uighurs or Tibetans in general want indepedence or condone any form of violent protests, this is a minority of people being influenced and controlled by outside forces. The Uighurs by the East Turkestan Independence movement (exhiled Uighurs linked to this listed terrorist group). Some of the facts that aren't bein...
  • My response to a viewpoint article from Tom Velk on CBC
    My response to a viewpoint article from Tom Velk on CBC http://www.cbc.ca/news/viewpoint/vp_velk/20050805.html I agree that countries should not allow hate-mongering and other illegal activities from any people but to point the finger at every immigrant and belittle Islam while ignoring other forms of terrorism and the true causes is irresponsible and anti-Islamic in nature. Throughout the world, whether it be the news or on-line forums, people are quick to ...
  • I concur
    I concur Nadia, Toronto Visit www.ifamericansknew.com they have facts pooled together by other organizations. Also read up on Amnesty International’s long list of American violations in regards to Human Rights (and the media had you believe that only Muslim countries were ruthless). It’s strange how CBC makes it a long cover story when a Muslim attacks someone, but will barely mention anything on these other VERY SOLID stories. My suggestion to our Canadian Muslims’, STOP r...
  • The Christian Effect
    The Christian Effect Areeb Yasir Christian organizations are everywhere, helping and giving to the poor. They are in South Africa, India, Afghanistan, Mexio and Iran. They are everywhere, trying to help everyone. But what they are doing in exchange is preaching Christianity, encouraging Muslims and other believers from different faiths to become Christian. Of course, the main thing is that they are helping. How many Muslim organizations out there are there i...

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