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3 Jan 2009, 1:44 am
Canberra rejects Guantanamo casesAustralia has formally rejected a US request to take in detainees from the Guantanamo Bay military jail.Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard said the decision was based on "stringent national security and immigration considerations. [read post]
11 Jan 2024, 6:05 am by Yumna Rizvi
As with most things Guantanamo, Occam’s razor suggests that reason is politics. [read post]
24 Nov 2009, 5:59 am
" The book contains the stories of the Guantanamo detainees as told by their lawyers. [read post]
22 Sep 2011, 6:26 pm by InternationalLaw Blogger
There are currently 171 detainees at Guantanamo Bay, four of whom have been convicted. [read post]
11 Jan 2008, 9:55 am
Allyn Gibson writes: "Guantanamo isn't about law and justice; Guantanamo is about fear and power. [read post]
9 Aug 2011, 11:30 am by Benjamin Wittes
Habeas laywer David Remes writes in with the following thoughts on Ramadan at Guantanamo: In her story on Ramadan fasting in Guantanamo, which you blogged about on August 6, Carol Rosenberg quoted Navy Commander Tamsen Reese, a public affairs officer, as saying that only about half the Guantanamo detainees fasted last year. [read post]
21 Oct 2008, 12:03 pm
The Guantanamo farce continuesThe US government has been accused of "farce" by the lawyer of the last UK resident held at Guantanamo Bay.Clive Stafford Smith says all charges have been dropped against Binyam Mohamed, who was accused of terrorism.However, he says Mr Mohamed, 30, who lived in west London, is set to be charged again within the next month, with new military prosecutors involved.Mr Mohamed has said he admitted to planning a terror attack only after being… [read post]
18 Feb 2009, 1:52 am
Confessions of a Guantanamo guardDetention. [read post]
11 Mar 2010, 8:45 am by Barco Reference Librarian
Closing the Guantanamo Detention Center: Legal Issues presents an overview of major legal issues likely to arise as a result of [read post]
18 Oct 2016, 7:33 am by Alexandra Farone
[JURIST] Mohamedou Ould Slahi, author of the 2015 Guantanamo Diary memoir, was released [press release] from Guantanamo Bay on Monday after 14 years of imprisonment. [read post]
5 Feb 2015, 6:46 am by Wells Bennett
But even ending detention at Guantanamo doesn’t necessarily mean ending Guantanamo detention. [read post]
17 Jun 2013, 6:17 pm by Benjamin Wittes
The Miami Herald has obtained under the Freedom of Information Act the list of dispositions for Guantanamo detainees from the Obama administration’s Guantanamo task force. [read post]
15 Jun 2015, 11:39 am by Benjamin Wittes
A useful chart courtesy of Covington & Burling showing the disposition of Guantanamo cases since the beginning of the Obama administration: [read post]
12 Jun 2012, 3:11 pm by Benjamin Wittes
At a recent conference on the 35th year of the State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, State Department Legal Adviser Harold Koh made the following comments about Guantanamo: I believe that this administration has tried to make what’s currently at Guantanamo lawful, but that doesn’t make it a good idea. [read post]
1 Feb 2016, 4:16 am by Benjamin Wittes
Now candidates are promising—almost as unrealistically—to expand Guantanamo. [read post]
31 Jan 2013, 4:09 am by InternationalLaw Blogger
On Friday, February 22, 2013, the Southern Illinois University School of Law is hosting a symposium entitled, "Guantanamo Bay: What Next? [read post]
10 Jan 2012, 7:07 pm by InternationalLaw Blogger
Despite President Obama's campaign promise to close Guantanamo Bay, Congress has made that impossible,... [read post]
18 May 2009, 2:58 am
The Leasing of Guantanamo Bay explains just how Guantanamo Bay came to be a leased territory where the U.S. has no sovereignty and Cuba has no jurisdiction. [read post]
5 Jun 2016, 6:52 pm by Consuella Pachico
Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi appeared before a secret government tribunal requesting to be released from his detention. [read post]