Maha Hilal

Feb 15, 2025 | middleeasteye.net | Maha Hilal

On 29 January, US President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the defence and homeland security departments to prepare a facility at Guantanamo Bay to imprison 30,000 migrants. In his announcement, he declared: "We have 30,000 beds in Guantanamo to detain the worst criminal illegal aliens threatening the American people. Some of them are so bad we don't even trust the countries to hold them, because we don't want them coming back.

Jan 30, 2025 | middleeasteye.net | Maha Hilal

Prominent rights groups and attorneys representing detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba have condemned a call by US President Donald Trump to use the notorious detention facility to house upwards of 30,000 undocumented migrants currently in the United States. Tom Homan, Trump's "border czar", said on Wednesday that the Trump administration would expand the already existing detention facility at Guantanamo and that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency would run it.

Jan 26, 2025 | znetwork.org | Maha Hilal

In the early hours of New Year’s Day, an individual in New Orleans killed 15 people and wounded dozens of others on the city’s famed Bourbon Street. When reports emerged that the alleged attacker was a Muslim American by the name of Shamsud-Din Jabbar, then President-elect Donald Trump quickly turned the tragedy into fodder for his Islamophobic, racist and xenophobic rhetoric.

Jan 25, 2025 | truthout.org | Maha Hilal

Part of the Series Communities Beyond Elections In the early hours of New Year’s Day, an individual in New Orleans killed 15 people and wounded dozens of others on the city’s famed Bourbon Street. When reports emerged that the alleged attacker was a Muslim American by the name of Shamsud-Din Jabbar, then President-elect Donald Trump quickly turned the tragedy into fodder for his Islamophobic, racist and xenophobic rhetoric.

Jan 15, 2025 | rebelion.org | Maha Hilal

Fuentes: Voces del Mundo El lunes 6 de enero 11 presos yemeníes de Guantánamo fueron trasladados a Omán tras recibir el visto bueno del Gobierno estadounidense para su puesta en libertad. Días antes el Pentágono repatrió a Túnez a Ridah bin Saleh al-Yazidi, recluido sin cargos en Guantánamo desde su apertura el 11 de enero de 2002. Otros tres supervivientes también fueron liberados a mediados de diciembre: dos enviados a Malasia y uno a Kenia.