Political Detainees

Hunger Strikes Put Guantanamo Back in the Spotlight

By Joe Hitchon
Public debate here over the military prison at Guantanamo Bay heated up again following Monday’s surprise publication of a highly charged article by an inmate at the prison, one of dozens currently engaged in a months-long hunger strike over detainees’ “indefinite detention”.

Critics Slam ASEAN Rights Commission

By Kanis Dursin
At the age of 82, former Indonesian political detainee Mudjayin wonders if he will ever see justice served.