Black Sites

Aafia Siddiqui, Political Prisoner

January 21, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Political Prisoners, Terrorism, Women

by Linda Ford, published on Countercurrents, January 18, 2022 Aafia Siddiqui (Her family likes to call her Dr. Aafia to remind people that she was a person of dignity and had achieved social credentials) is in prison in the US at Carswell Medical Facility because if her story were ever to become public, it would point to a war crime[…]

The Forever Prisoner”: Alex Gibney’s New Documentary About CIA Torture Victim Abu Zubaydah

January 2, 2022 UNAC Editor Abuses of Empire, Prisons and Prisoners

by Andy Worthington, published on Close Guantanamo, December 22, 2021 Yes, Guantanamo is still open with a number of prisoners never accused of a crime. In the long litany of torture and abuse inflicted by the U.S. government on prisoners in the brutal “war on terror” that the Bush administration declared after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, few[…]