baher azmy, from the — political level. baher azmy, from the center— political level.ank you for being with us. parts of southern california are under their first blizzard warning since 1989. the winter storm that started rolling into the golden state on thursday will start to intensify on friday. a massive storm has already brought major blizzards and temperatures far below freezing to much of the northern us. the cold snap comes as parts of the us southeast basked in a record—breaking heat wave. eric boldt from the national weather service has been monitoring the storm. when we start issuing a blizzard warning, of the first we've issued in decades, that is the unusual nature of this event, where just a lot of precipitation in the mountains and also down here closer to the ocean where we all live. it's not going to be a record—breaking amount of rain associated with this butjust a strong storm overall for the month of february, one of our wettest months of the year. but the biggest difference is just feet of snow expected in the mountains and that's going to really he

i�*ve been speaking to baher azmy, the legal director for the centre for constitutional rights, about is that they were swept up in the post—9/11 hysteria and sold to the united states for a bounty, as so many of the guantanamo detainees were, subject to secret cia detention, where they were tortured, like many in ci detention. they were sent to guantanamo for the purposes of endless interrogation and disregard of basic human rights and only through their own resistance, including beautiful production of art and the hunger striking and the hunger striking and the hunger striking and the work of a london based human rights organisation, among others, called reprieve, were they finally release. there is potential here for claims of unlawful imprisonment, on top of these claims you have already heard about the pair being tortured. is this going to result in a lengthy court case against the us government? regrettably, the us courts have denied all previous attempts for compensation, for clear claims of torture authorised by us government officials, so at least for now, those claims will b

this is baher azmy, legal director of the center for constitutional rights, speaking to democracy nowthat year. >> majid khan, to his credit, detailed the systematic, brutal, sadistic torture of u.s. government officials, namely the cia, which for nearly 20 years the u.s. government has tried to keep secret. amy: khan's lawyer said in a statement -- "guantÁnamo is a national shame, and we hope that today is another step forward towards its ultimate closure. the men languishing in guantÁnamo who have been cleared for release must be transferred, indefinite detention is anathema to a just society." majid khan arrived in thursday in belize, which has agreed to permanently resettle him. his release came as the united nations announced it's sending a human rights official to the guantÁnamo military prison for the first time ever. the u.s. continues to hold 34 prisoners at guantanamo. only 11 of them have been charged in military tribunals. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. when we come back, college board has removed bl