Akhlak Akhlas, whose case CAGE worked on has unfortunately been executed in Pakistan as a revenge for the Peshawar attack to which he had no link to whatsoever.

At the end of 2008, Asim Qureshi was in Peshawar, Pakistan, in order to investigate the cases of those still detained in Guantanamo Bay, the missing persons of Pakistan and to meet with released Guantanamo Bay detainees. During a meeting with former detainee Badr-uz-Zaman, a commander of the Pakistan Taliban entered with his contingent to pay respects to the released detainee. After the horrific school attack in Peshawar, Asim reflects on that meeting and its implications for the future.

(Johannesburg, South Africa) – Saud Memon, a man kidnapped by the FBI in South Africa, is listed on page 460 of the Torture Report as number 100 in the list of detainees held and tortured by the CIA between 2002 and 2008. As such, South African leaders who knew about the mechanisms of his detention, torture and death must be held accountable under international law.

Living in the western world, we sometimes fall into the trap of thinking of rights and due process only within the context of an international framework established through key documents such as the Universal Declaration of Human ...

CAGE is calling on Pakistan to halt the execution of a man who has been denied his basic rights and who is due to be hanged within hours.

(Johannesburg, South Africa) In the wake of the Senate’s report on the CIA’s role in torture, CAGE Africa insists that South Africa’s role in facilitating renditions and torture must see full accountability under international law.

The United Nations has demanded the immediate release and right to compensation of a US citizen who has been arbitrarily detained in Iraq for a decade.

The continued violence that has characterised Nigeria’s battle with Boko Haram, points to Western complicity, but also emphasises a deeper psychology at play: a deep fear of Africa and Islam, and a concerted effort to colonise both.