November 17, 2009 – 8:22 am
No issue symbolised the moral bankruptcy of the Bush Administration’s post 9/11 offensive more graphically than Guantanamo Bay. And when Barak Obama promised last year to repair the damage done to American prestige because of the Bush Administration’s mistreatment of the detainees at Gitmo, his lofty rhetoric fell on fertile ground. But last Friday’s package [...]
February 20, 2009 – 12:00 pm
Human Rights Watch reports on a concerning court ruling from the USA which has echoes of the major human rights breaches enabled under Australian laws permitting the indefinite mandatory detention of innocent people who have no other country to go to and the forcible transportation of refugees to Nauru where they were beyond the reach of [...]