December 2024 Archives

 John Yoo's "Torture Memos" gave CIA officials a "golden shield" against future criminal prosecution for torture. 

..for the first time, a former prisoner's version of what happened to him is now in the record of a trial at the post-9/11 war crimes court,

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/us/politics/guantanamo-prisoner-drawings-torture.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iU4.4Z9w.OXkTZXH5g_2A&smid=url-share

A self-portrait drawn by Mohammed Farik Bin Amin, 

How art is a lifeline for the incarcerated, 
https://hyperallergic.com/971777/guantanamo-bay-and-the-art-of-resistance/

Mansoor Adayfi holding work by Sabri al-Qurashi (photo by and courtesy of Erin L. Thompson) over photo of dusk at Guantánamo Bay (photo via Wikimedia Commons; edit Isabella Segalovich/Hyperallergic):