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18 Jan 2017, 6:00 am
Besides the high-profile commutation of Chelsea Manning's sentence, he's busy on land preservation, immigration, Guantanamo Bay and education. [read post]
16 Jan 2017, 11:39 am
Oman's Foreign Ministry [official website, in Arabic] announced that it has accepted 10 detainees from Guantanamo Bay upon request from the Obama administration. [read post]
10 Jan 2017, 1:43 pm
[JURIST] Australian citizen and former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks [JURIST news archive] made a court appearance on Tuesday in Adelaide on assault charges against his partner. [read post]
10 Jan 2017, 6:22 am
(PST) -- The confirmation hearing has been interrupted four times now by protesters, with chants covering issues ranging from racism to the closing of Guantanamo Bay detention facility. [read post]
6 Jan 2017, 4:24 pm
(1) Ashton Carter, Department of Defense Adjusting to Strategic Change Operationalizing the rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region A strong and balanced strategic approach to deter Russia Deterring North Korea Checking Iran's malign influence while strengthening regional friends and allies Countering terrorists and other violent extremists Iraq and Syria Ensuring Long-Term Stability in Afghanistan Defeating the Global Terrorist Threat Establishing an Alternative to the Detention… [read post]
6 Jan 2017, 11:54 am
Adam Kredo of the Washington Free Beacon reports that over the course of Obama's presidency, the population of Guantanamo Bay has been reduced by nearly 75% according to statistics published by the pentagon. [read post]
6 Jan 2017, 7:06 am
Department of Defense announced yesterday that it has transferred four Yemeni detainees from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay to Saudi Arabia: Salem Ahmad Hadi Bin Kanad, Muhammed Rajab Sadiq Abu Ghanim, Abdallah Yahya Yusif Al-Shibli, and Muhammad... [read post]
5 Jan 2017, 2:09 pm
In Boumediene, the Court held that the Constitution’s Suspension Clause, protecting the right to habeas corpus, applied to foreign nationals held at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, even though the center is located outside U.S. sovereign territory and therefore extraterritorial. [read post]
5 Jan 2017, 12:57 pm
[JURIST] Four Yemeni detainees were transferred [press release] Thursday from Guantanamo Bay to Saudi Arabia. [read post]
5 Jan 2017, 11:22 am
These transfers will mark the first of the 18 or 19 releases scheduled to take place before the inauguration of Donald Trump, in a final rush by the Obama administration to clear Guantanamo Bay of as many detainees as possible. [read post]
27 Dec 2016, 4:31 pm
Ed Royce, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee has this op-ed in the WSJ with the above title.With less than a month remaining in office, President Obama is racing to free 19 more detainees from the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay. [read post]
23 Dec 2016, 8:37 am
The Obama administration will likely not be able to transfer all 23 detainees by Inauguration Day, leaving the Trump administration with around 45 prisoners—26 of whom are “forever prisoners” who have neither been charged nor cleared for transfer—remaining in Guantanamo Bay. [read post]
22 Dec 2016, 8:54 am
"Will Guantanamo Bay's Prison Ever Close? [read post]
21 Dec 2016, 1:17 pm
Kelly oversaw the detention center at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. [read post]
17 Dec 2016, 8:04 am
Pretrial hearings continued this week at Guantanamo Bay in the USS Cole case. [read post]
15 Dec 2016, 10:11 am
The last remaining detainees at Guantanamo Bay don’t yet know what to expect in the coming months given both President Obama’s oft-stated desire to close the prison and Donald Trump’s commitment to “loading it up with some bad dudes,” the AP writes. [read post]
8 Dec 2016, 9:34 am
In that capacity, Kelly oversaw operations at Guantanamo Bay, which he often defended against criticism from human rights activists. [read post]
7 Dec 2016, 12:54 pm
” He reportedly clashed frequently with the Obama administration, opposing the closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center and calling human rights groups’ criticism of military detention “foolishness. [read post]
5 Dec 2016, 1:50 pm
” To this end, the report cites a March 2009 Department of Justice brief on Guantanamo Bay detention, the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), and a number of federal court decisions (e.g., Ali v. [read post]
5 Dec 2016, 11:54 am
Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Shawqi Awad Balzuhair has successfully been resettled in the West African island nation of Cape Verde, the Miami Herald reports. [read post]
