Kenneth Roth Appears on the Colbert Report

Kenneth Roth is the Executive Director of Human Rights Watch and appeared on Steven Colbert's show to mark the Fifth Anniversary of the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

A voice from Gitmo's darkness
By Jumah al-Dossari - Guantanamo Detainee
Published in the Los Angeles Times

JUMAH AL-DOSSARI is a 33-year-old citizen of Bahrain. This article was excerpted from letters he wrote to his attorneys. Its contents have been deemed unclassified by the Department of Defense.

January 11 2007 Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba — I AM WRITING from the darkness of the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo in the hope that I can make our voices heard by the world. My hand quivers as I hold the pen.. More...

Congress must restore basic rights
By Jennifer Daskal - Advocacy Director, U.S. Program
Published in the Sacramento Bee

Five year after President Bush opened the hastily built detention center at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, nearly 400 men, so-called unlawful enemy combatants, remain trapped there. Not a single one of these allegedly high-level terrorists have been brought to trial for their crimes and only 10 have ever been charged. This means that neither the prisoners nor the American public have gotten the accounting they deserve. More...