Jennifer Daskal is the U.S. program advocacy director at Human Rights Watch and has been monitoring the military commissions in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Jennifer Daskal's Salon stories

Thursday, Dec 11, 2008 12:55 EST

Chaos in the 9/11 courtroom

In Guantánamo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-defendants don't know the rules -- and neither does the judge.
Wednesday, Oct 1, 2008 03:57 EDT

More blowback from the war on terror

The U.S.-backed Ethiopian military has secreted away scores of "suspects" -- including pregnant women and children -- and fueled anti-American rancor in Africa.
Tuesday, Jun 10, 2008 03:31 EDT

The insanity inside Guantánamo

A new report reveals that a number of prisoners -- even some long ago cleared to leave -- are spiraling into hallucinations, despair and suicide.
Friday, May 2, 2008 04:00 EDT

Lawless in Guantánamo

Even an Air Force colonel who once prosecuted detainees here is condemning military commissions at the prison as politicized and unjust.
Friday, Dec 14, 2007 06:33 EST

Blackwater in Baghdad: "It was a horror movie"

New testimony from witnesses and victims provides the most in-depth, harrowing account to date of the U.S. security firm's deadly rampage in Iraq.
Wednesday, Jun 6, 2007 04:06 EDT

The end of Bush's kangaroo courts?

The dismissal of two cases in Guantánamo Bay dealt a rightful blow to the administration's quasi-justice system for alleged terrorists.

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