BBC News
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VIDEO: Drone footage shows migrants' arrival September 23, 2015
Matthew Price looks at one of the Greek hotspots for migrants entering Europe.
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VIDEO: The Olympian who never gave up September 23, 2015
In 1992, 400m medal hopeful Derek Redmond pulled up injured in the semi-final of the Barcelona Olympics, but still finished the race.
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VIDEO: Football legend Pele at 75 September 23, 2015
Football legend Pele is 75 this year. He talked to the BBC about what inspires him and what he makes of football today.
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VIDEO: Pope Francis lands to cheers in US September 22, 2015
President Obama and his Family have greeted Pope Francis upon his arrival at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland.
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VIDEO: Lesbos struggles as 4,000 arrive daily September 22, 2015
The Greek island of Lesbos is still struggling to keep up with the steady flow of migrants and refugees.
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VIDEO: How much does making a drug cost? September 22, 2015
As Turing Pharmaceuticals raises the price of an Aids treatment, Daraprim, BBC News looks at how the pharmaceutical industry tries to balance the pursuit of profit with a patient's need to access medication.
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VIDEO: Refugee crisis: Food and phone charging September 22, 2015
The BBC's Mark Lowen reports from a sports stadium on the Turkey-Greece border where agencies are providing shelter and food to refugees trying to reach Europe.
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VIDEO: On the ground at refugee hotspots September 22, 2015
EU ministers have approved a controversial plan to relocate 120,000 refugees and migrants across the EU using compulsory quotas.
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VIDEO: A guide to strange initiation ceremonies September 22, 2015
Initiation ceremonies are in the news, here are some of the stranger ones from around the world.
CONTROVERSIAL TRIAL
The first military commission trial of the Obama administration, the most controversial trial of the Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, is set to get under way in Guantanamo, scheduled to start on Tuesday 08/10/2010 (see -Holder’s NY Decision). Omar Khadr is the only Westerner still being held at this military prison and the youngest of 176 men held nowadays at Guantanamo.
Omar Khadr, the son of Ahmed Said Khadr who raised his sons in Pakistan and Afghanistan to be devoted radical Muslims and potential terrorists, was caught in Afghanistan in 07/2002 after a four hours battle in Afghanistan. Sgt Christopher Speer from Delta force was killed by a grenade thrown by Omar Khadr and Layne Morris lost one of his eyes in the fight. Omar Khadr himself was wounded. After few weeks treatment at Bagram air base Omar Khadr was transferred, in 09/2002, to Guantanamo. Omar Khadr has often claimed he’s been tortured in Guantanamo.
In a preliminary hearing the judge said the anonymous jury of U.S. military officers could see a video showing Omar Khadr, less then 16, helping a group of alleged al Qaeda operatives make and plant roadside explosives in Afghanistan.
The video was found in the bombed-out compound where Omar Khadr was captured and badly wounded. Prosecutors successfully argued that U.S. forces found it independently several weeks after the battle, and did not rely on information obtained from Khadr’s interrogators.
But by all means no civilians were involved or threatened by Omar Khadr and the event cannot be defined as a terror act. USA argued Omar Khadr isn’t a soldier and Al Qaeda isn’t an army.
In a letter to his lawyer Major Jon Jackson dated May 27, 2010, Omar Khadr wrote, “I have an obligation to show the world what is going on down here, it seems that we have done everything but the world doesn’t get it so it might work if the world sees the USA sentencing a child to life in prison”. Omar Khadr’s Canadian lawyer, Dennis Edney, said the tribunal was rigged to convict and that the U.S. and Canadian governments would use his inevitable conviction as proof that Khadr deserved abuse.
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02/2010 -4 GITMO DETAINEES TRANSFERRED TO EUROPE
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08/2008 -AAFIA SIDDIQUI ARRESTED IN AFGHANISTAN
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06/2008 -U.S SUPREME COURT RULED GITMO DETAINEES CAN APEAL
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