The draconian trial restrictions, familiar to many Muslim Americans tried in the so-called war on terror, presage a future of show trials and blind obedience.
We continue to discuss defence without first posing some essential questions: will we be at war? With whom? And what are the real security threats to Canada?
Anti-terror policies implemented by the U.S. and governments around the world have grossly violated human rights, warned United Nations human rights chief Navi Pillay on Monday.
Last week, Obama promised to wind down the "forever war," sharply reduce drone attacks, repatriate detainees to Yemen, and move again to close Guantanamo.
Close to 12 years later, the 2001 AUMF act remains in force, giving the Obama administration and the Pentagon carte blanche to wage war, to occupy nations and to kill people with drones.
The vast majority of prisoners in Guatanamo are now on hunger strike in protest against their continued detention without charge or trial. Some have been on hunger strike for three months.
The U.S. military has confirmed that at least 40 medical personnel have arrived at Guantanamo Bay in order to expand a force feeding operation designed to counter an ongoing hunger strike.
Mohammad Majoub was first arrested in 2000 under a security certificate. He lived in detention and under house arrest until 2012. Finally allowed to leave Toronto, he has been speaking across Canada.