Al-Ahram Weekly Online   16 - 22 March 2006
Issue No. 786
International
 
Published in Cairo by AL-AHRAM established in 1875

Rights tug-of-war
Washington makes the case for being tough on countries with abysmal human rights records and Beijing decries America's own dismal record, writes Gamal Nkrumah
Terrible embarrassment"
Amid mounting international pressure, the Pentagon revealed the identities of hundreds of detainees in Guantanamo Bay, but calls for closing the controversial camp continue, reports Tamam Ahmed Jama

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