FRONTLINE: Syrian Activists Run Secret Hospitals

PBS FRONTLINE reporter Ramita Navai traveled undercover through Syria along a network of safe houses and secret hospitals.

Libyan Rebel Accuses CIA Of Torture

The possible foreign policy implications of the alleged US role in the 2004 torture of Libyan rebel leader, Abdul Hakim Belhaj.

Why the Syrian Government has been Accused of Torture

Amnesty International has accused Bashar al-Assad’s government of torturing protesters.

Physicians ignored Guantanamo torture evidence

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Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Dr.Vincent Iacopino of “Physicians for Human Rights” about a report he helped write which claims that medical personnel serving at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility ignored evidence that prisoners there had been tortured. Download MP3

Read official DOD response here

Malaysia’s maid shortage rooted in abuse

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Malaysian families are facing a critical shortage of maids. Most of the maids come from Indonesia. But that country banned its citizens from going to work as maids in Malaysia after a series of high profile abuses against them. Jennifer Pak reports from Kuala Lumpur. Download MP3

Torture inquiry in London

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Lawyers representing 142 Iraqis will head to the High Court in London tomorrow asking for a public inquiry into allegations of systemic torture by British forces in Iraq.The World’s Laura Lynch has more from London. Download MP3

Where to prosecute terrorism suspects?

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Neither Attorney General Eric Holder nor Congress is backing down in the fight over where to prosecute terrorism suspects. Holder maintains that Federal Courts are the best place to try 9/11 plotter Khalid Sheik Mohammed and his co-conspirators while a bipartisan group of Senators is trying to force the Administration to prosecute terrorists in military courts. The World’s Katy Clark has more. Download MP3

• Closing Guantanamo
• Katy Clark’s Guantanamo stories

Gitmo debrief

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Shortly after taking office, President Obama issued an executive order to shut down the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay within a year. The White House has now acknowledged it won’t make that January deadline. The World’s Katy Clark has reported several times from the detention facility on Cuba, she just returned from another reporting trip there. Jeb Sharp gets a debrief. Download MP3 (Photo: Katy Clark)

• Katy’s update from Guantanamo (Jan 6)
• Katy’s previous Guantanamo coverage on The World
• FAQ on closing Guantanamo

Gitmo update

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Shortly after taking office, President Obama issued an executive order to shut down the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay within a year. That year is almost up but the White House recently acknowledged it won’t make that the January deadline. The World’s Katy Clark has reported several times from the detention facility, now she’s back for an update. Download MP3

• Katy’s previous Guantanamo coverage on The World
• FAQ on closing Guantanamo

Lithuania hosted secret CIA prisons

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The CIA used at least two secret detention centers in Lithuania after the 9/11 attacks, a Lithuanian inquiry has found. At least eight terror suspects were held at one center on the outskirts of the capital Vilnius (pictured), the investigation found. It was formerly a riding school and the suspects were reportedly held there between 2004 and 2005. Matthew Bell looks at how the current practice of the CIA compares. Download MP3 (AP Photo: Mindaugas Kulbis)

• BBC coverage
• On The World: Renditions to continue under Obama (Aug 25)

CIA agents guilty of Italy kidnap

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An Italian judge has convicted 23 Americans – all but one of them CIA agents – and two Italian secret agents for the 2003 kidnap of a Muslim cleric. The agents were accused of abducting Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, known as Abu Omar (pictured), from Milan and sending him to Egypt, where he was allegedly tortured. Marco Werman talks with John Radsan, who served as the CIA’s assistant general counsel from 2002 to 2004. Download MP3

• BBC coverage
• Central Intelligence Agency

Campaign to stop using music as torture

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The National Security Archive in Washington has filed a Freedom of Information Act request. They are seeking declassified information of music used in interrogation practices. Dozens of musicians have also come on board. Anchor Marco Werman speaks to Thomas Blanton is Executive Director for the National Security Archive in Washington, DC.

Life after Gitmo

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President Obama signed an executive order to close the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba by January 2010. That date is getting closer and the remaining detainees there are awaiting their release. The World’s Katy Clark tells us about how former Guantanamo detainees often struggle to reintegrate into society after their release. Download MP3

• Law professor Mark Denbeaux on archiving Guantanamo cases
• Katy Clark’s Guantanamo coverage (2002-2009)

Alleged abuse of CIA interrogations: what to do about it?

Seeking accountability on detainee abuse. Where should the Obama administration go with the allegations of CIA torture? It’s a huge legal, moral and political challenge for a president who says he wants to move on.

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Europe’s own interrogation scandal

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Human rights advocates in EUROPE are calling for countries there to look into their own role in CIA prisoner abuse. Several countries are accused of abetting CIA prisoner programs during the Bush administration. The World’s Gerry Hadden has the story.