El Helicoide, a brutalist complex sitting atop a hill in central Caracas, is known as one of Latin America’s most notorious detention centers. Built as a shopping mall…
Read more What Will Become of Venezuela’s Political Prisoners?CNN — Here’s a look at some recent cases of foreign governments detaining US citizens. For information about missing Americans, see Robert Levinson Fast Facts or POW/MIA in…
Read more Detained Americans Fast Facts | CNNCNN — Here’s some background information about the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal which took place during the Iraq war. Abu Ghraib prison was a US Army detention…
Read more Iraq Prison Abuse Scandal Fast Facts | CNNCNN — Harrison Li and Katherine Swidan both worry they may never see their loved ones again. Kai Li – Harrison Li’s father – and Mark Swidan –…
Read more Families of US detainees in China urge Blinken to make them ‘number one’ priority on his trip | CNN PoliticsCNN — The US has transferred a Guantanamo Bay detainee who was convicted of terrorism offenses in 2012 to Belize, the Pentagon announced on Thursday. Majid Khan, a…
Read more US transfers Guantanamo Bay detainee to Belize | CNN PoliticsWashington CNN — An American wrongfully detained in Iran is calling on President Joe Biden to take notice of US detainees there, launching a hunger strike Monday to…
Read more American held in Iran launches hunger strike and writes to Biden asking him to do more for detainees | CNN PoliticsCNN — On October 1, five of the so-called Citgo 6 were woken up early in their Venezuelan prison by a guard telling them to “get dressed up…
Read more Ending a ‘nightmare’ in Venezuela: How the US government brought seven Americans home | CNN PoliticsThey’d choose the women who were pretty and suited their appetite … … then the officer would take one of them from the cell to a smaller, private…
Read more CNN investigates female and male protesters’ accounts of sexual assault in Iranian detention centersLondon CNN — Police were deployed to an immigration center near London Saturday following what they called a “disturbance.” Detainees inside the facility had armed themselves with knives…
Read more Police deal with ‘disturbance’ involving armed detainees at London immigration center | CNNCNN — Saifullah Paracha, a former detainee at the Guatanamo Bay detention facility, has been repatriated to Pakistan, according to a statement from the Department of Defense. Defense…
Read more Former Guantanamo detainee Saifullah Paracha repatriated to Pakistan | CNN PoliticsCNN — President Joe Biden on Saturday announced the return of seven Americans he said were wrongfully detained in Venezuela for “years.” “Today, after years of being wrongfully…
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