In writing this, I'm bracing myself for being called an anti-Semite, an appeaser of terrorists and propagandist for the Palestinian cause. I'm none of those things. I say this simply because these days, it seems, anyone who dares criticise the policies

Barack Obama, winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, is planning another war to add to his impressive record. In Afghanistan, his agents routinely extinguish wedding parties....

Barack Obama promised a sharp break from the Bush era, yet he seems to have stepped into the shoes of his disgraced predecessor. As the anniversary of his election approaches, Mehdi Hasan investigates what went wrong

According to the British government, a Kurdish Iraqi imam living in the north of England was such a threat to national security that, for the last three years and four months, he was subjected to a control order.......

The control order system was, essentially, cobbled together by the government after the law lords ruled in December 2004 that holding men without charge or trial in Belmarsh prison - the government's previous response to holding terror suspects who.......

This week NOW, as part of a collaboration with the nonprofit investigative unit ProPublica, explores the controversial tactic of "preventative detention," a government plan that may detain suspects indefinitely without trial or even formal charges.

The trial of the "Lockerbie bomber" was worse than a travesty of justice. Evidence that never came to court proves his innocence

Long-time readers of my work will know that I championed the cause of Mohamed Jawad, the Afghan prisoner released from Guantánamo on August 24, for nearly two years, from the moment that he was, ludicrously, put forward for a trial by Military Commission

The man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing has backed demands for a far-reaching public inquiry into the atrocity, saying the international community owes that to the families of the 270 victims.

Bush's Justice Department lives on in two depressing court rulings