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21 Apr 2013, 9:00 am
It opens: GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (AP) — The morning routine started before dawn with a prisoner chanting the Muslim call to prayer through a small opening in the heavy steel door of his cell as soldiers with face shields quietly paced in the dimly lit corridor. [read post]
4 Mar 2007, 12:40 am
Interesting article from the National Journal: A flurry of trials are raising two questions about Guantanamo Bay: Can the president hold detainees, and how does he try them? [read post]
13 Jun 2008, 1:06 am
In his post below, Orin suggests that if Congress were to object to the Court's Boumediene decision, it could "formally suspend the Writ as it applies to Guantanamo Bay" under... [read post]
10 Mar 2009, 9:00 am
Terrorism - On February 26, 2009, European Union member countries met to evaluate the possibility of resettling terror suspects from the U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. [read post]
12 Jun 2008, 4:30 am
More than two-thirds of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, including many cleared for release or transfer, are being housed in inhumane conditions that are reportedly having a damaging effect on their mental health, Human Rights Watch said in a new report... [read post]
13 Apr 2009, 5:54 am
"The Next Guantanamo": The New York Times today contains an editorial that begins, "The Obama administration is basking in praise for its welcome commitment to shut down the American detention center at Guantanamo Bay. [read post]
22 Aug 2008, 10:53 am
Guantanamo inmate wins right to see secret 'torture' evidenceA British resident facing the death penalty at Guantanamo Bay has won his case for the Government to disclose secret evidence that he says supports claims he was tortured into confessing to crimes he did not commit. [read post]
4 Feb 2007, 7:27 am
"The view from Guantanamo Bay": The Toronto Star contains this article today. [read post]
27 Aug 2004, 4:57 pm
At the end of the first week of military commission trial proceedings for terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, observers for four human rights groups accorded observer status - Human Rights Watch, Human Rights First, Amnesty International and the American Civil Liberties Union - called Friday for the US government to replace military commissions with "fair and and impartial trials [read post]
8 Apr 2007, 6:03 am
[JURIST] Australian Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee David Hicks [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] will not be permitted to sell his story to the media, Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock [official profile] said Sunday. [read post]
19 May 2006, 1:44 am
[JURIST] The United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) [official website] said Friday in a report [PDF] on its annual review [JURIST report] of US compliance with the Convention Against Torture [text] that the United States should shut down its prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
28 May 2006, 6:20 pm
[JURIST] The British prisoners rights group Reprieve [advocacy website] has claimed that over 60 of the foreign detainees imprisoned by the US at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] were juveniles under 18 years of age when captured, and that some were as young as 14. [read post]
1 Sep 2007, 4:12 am
[JURIST] A new one-page US military report obtained by the Associated Press shows that despite a decline in the number of prisoners held at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive], "mass disturbances" by inmates have risen substantially thusfar in 2007, increasing over 90% from 201 in 2006 to 385 in the first six months of this year. [read post]
23 Apr 2009, 2:23 am
[JURIST] A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia [official website] ordered [text, PDF] Wednesday that Afghan Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Mohammed Jawad [ACLU materials; JURIST news archive], detained since he was a teenager, be allowed to challenge his detention in federal courts without delay. [read post]
22 Jun 2007, 7:21 pm
[JURIST] The Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT) [DOD materials] at Guantanamo Bay were pressured to declare detainees "enemy combatants" based on vague or incomplete evidence, according to a Friday affidavit [PDF text] filed with a DC appeals court by a US army officer involved in the tribunals. [read post]
1 Jul 2009, 2:33 am
[JURIST] The lawyers for terrorism suspect Ahmed Ghailani [GlobalSecurity backgrounder; JURIST news archive] on Tuesday requested access to secret prisons [JURIST news archive] operated by the Central Intelligence Agency [official website] at which their client was held prior to his transfer to Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
16 Apr 2007, 12:00 pm
[JURIST] Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] military prison detainee Abu Zubaydah [BBC profile] denied accusations of al-Qaeda involvement and made allegations of torture, according to a transcript [PDF] released Monday of his March 27 testimony before a US Combatant Status Review Tribunal [DOD materials]. [read post]
6 May 2009, 6:04 am
[JURIST] A Spanish judge has said that he will ask the US if it plans to prosecute six US officials for allegedly contributing to torture at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST report] before deciding whether to open an investigation in Spain. [read post]
28 Jun 2013, 5:19 am
Gates, (ED VA, June 29, 2013), plaintiff, an Algerian citizen arrested in Pakistan and subsequently transferred to Guantanamo Bay for five years, sued various former government officials for damages alleging that his treatment violated customary international law, the Geneva Convention, the 5th Amendment, the 1st Amendment's free speech and free exercise protections, and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. [read post]
19 May 2006, 9:05 am
[JURIST] The White House Friday responded to a report [PDF text; JURIST report] by the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) [official website] calling on the US to shut down its Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detention facility by reinterating President Bush's statement [JURIST report] that he hopes to close it at some point, and insisting that "everything that is done in terms of questioning [read post]
