Mezan In Media
1 April 2011
Short Link:
Dr.
Stephen Xenakis, a former high-level army psychiatrist, has become a vocal critic of the terrorist-detention system, calling on his medical colleagues not to participate in 'special interrogation methods.
'
By Natasha Mozgovaya
WASHINGTON, D.
C.
- In signing the Defense Law, which includes clauses banning the transfer of prisoners from the Guantanamo Bay detention camp to U.
S.
territory, U.
S.
President Barack Obama effectively finished addressing the notorious facility in Cuba.
He signed the law in January, despite knowing that Congress' opposition to transferring prisoners into U.
S.
jails would get in the way of making good on the order he gave to close Guantanamo upon taking office.
Joint Urgent Appeal to the UN Special Procedures and Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to Protect Palestinian Detainees from Collective Punishment and Physical Destruction Through the Arbitrary Deprivation of Life by Israel
Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Urge UN Intervention to Halt Israel’s Death Penalty Bill Targeting Palestinian Detainees
Al Mezan Condemns Israel’s Renewed Ban Prohibiting ICRC Representatives from Visiting Palestinian Detainees in Israeli Prisons
Al Mezan Demands Immediate Release of Dr. Abu Safiya After Court Further Extends His Arbitrary Detention
Al Mezan Urges Immediate Release of Dr. Abu Safiya Ahead of Tomorrow's Court Hearing