‘President Barack Obama’s new proposal to close the notorious U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay has already attracted the predictable right-wing blowback, with 2016 hopeful Ted Cruz claiming the White House is planning to give the naval base “back to Cuba” (if only!) and Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) immediately issuing a statement opposing the transfer […]

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‘The High Court of Australia has done its occasional bit for refugees, though much of its legal reasoning has lead to inadvertent consequences. During the Gillard years, it sank what would have been a notorious exchange of refugees with Malaysia (the “Malaysian Solution”) as one that was outside the scope of the Refugee Act and […]

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‘This story makes me so angry that I can’t even come up with my usual snarky introduction. I only weep. The Guantánamo parole board approved the release of a Yemeni “forever prisoner,” dismissing intelligence that imprisoned the man for 13 years without trial. And if that level of evil and scorn for justice doesn’t radicalize […]

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‘US officials have admitted they held the wrong man at Guantanamo Bay prison for 13 years because his name was similar to that of a high-profile terrorist suspect. The wrongly imprisoned man, Mustafa al-Aziz al-Shamiri, is now getting ready for reintegration into society. The truth emerged Tuesday during a panel hearing for al-Shamiri’s release, according […]

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‘Daniel Flitton, senior correspondent for The Age, sees the lack of interest in Australia’s novel approach to indefinite detention for refugees as unfathomable. Concerns about metadata retention, and the elasticity of surveillance powers, may have […]