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Phantom Parrot, a British documentary now screening in the US, sheds light on the Orwellian technologies being used across borders to repress activists, journalists, and others.
Plus, the Chinati Foundation gets a new head and a Prussian prince battles to recoup his family's art.
On his first day of freedom, former Guantánamo Bay prisoner Majid Khan prayed without anyone watching him for the first time in two decades...
He was promised his freedom, but, with no U.S. pressure, his host country systematically denied him any semblance of normal life.
Two decades after the attacks of September 11, 2001, and the arrival of the first terrorism suspects at Guantánamo Bay on January 11, 2002, many Americans may not recall details of the systematic abuses carried out by the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and US military against hundreds if not thousands of Muslims detained as part of what President George W. Bush swiftly declared a global “War on Terror.” Yet for many people in countries outside the United States, memories of the US government’s brutal treatment of detained Muslims remain potent. And some abuses continue,...