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22 Jan 2009, 3:26 am
[JURIST] US President Barack Obama [official website] issued an executive order [text, PDF] Thursday directing that the Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] military prison be closed "as soon as practicable, and no later than 1 year from the date of this order. [read post]
9 Jun 2009, 3:50 am
[JURIST] A Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee was transferred [press release] to New York on Tuesday to face criminal charges for his alleged terrorist activities, marking the first time a detainee from the facility has been brought to the US for prosecution. [read post]
29 Jan 2006, 4:05 pm
[JURIST] Several detainees involved in the continuing Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] hunger strikes are close to death, according to lawyers acting for the detainees. [read post]
15 Nov 2006, 7:15 am
[JURIST] Lawyers for Saifullah Paracha [advocacy website; Wikipedia profile], a multimillionaire from Pakistan in US custody at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive], petitioned a federal court Wednesday to enjoin the US military from performing a cardiac catheterization [AHA backgrounder] because the facility there lacks sufficient medical equipment and the backup to ensure his health if [read post]
19 Aug 2006, 1:31 pm
[JURIST] US officials will release Murat Kurnaz [AI case sheet; chronology, PDF], a Turkish national with ties to Germany, from Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] sometime next week, according to reports in the German media Saturday. [read post]
26 Apr 2006, 4:22 am
[JURIST Europe] French authorities are charging six former French Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees with terrorism-related crimes, according to officials cited by AFP. [read post]
27 Sep 2009, 3:00 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] Saturday announced [DOJ press release] that three more detainees have been released from the Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] prison. [read post]
1 Jun 2007, 8:39 am
[JURIST] Dennis Edney, a Canadian civilian lawyer for Canadian Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Omar Khadr [Trial Watch profile; JURIST news archive], said Friday that his client would not work out a plea deal with the US military because it would require Khadr to serve 30 years in prison on terror charges. [read post]
13 Mar 2008, 2:55 am
[JURIST] Afghan Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed Kamin [DOD materials] was charged [PDF text; DOD press release] Wednesday with providing material support to terrorism. [read post]
12 Jan 2008, 2:15 am
Buzby [official profile], commander of the Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] military prison, was reassigned Friday after only six months at that position. [read post]
8 Feb 2007, 11:06 am
[JURIST] Lawyers for the three recently re-charged Guantanamo detainees [JURIST report] renewed their condemnation of new military commission rules [manual, PDF; JURIST report] Thursday, telling the Associated Press that the tight deadlines established by the rules will prevent extended investigation into the reliability of the evidence brought against their clients. [read post]
16 Feb 2009, 4:14 am
[JURIST] UK resident and Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Binyam Mohamed [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] was found by British authorities on Sunday to be healthy enough to return to the UK if the US government acquiesces to the request for his release. [read post]
19 Apr 2006, 1:13 pm
[JURIST] The US Department of Defense [official website] on Wednesday released the first official list of prisoners [PDF] held at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive], including the names of people who were the earliest detainees at the detention facility. [read post]
6 Oct 2021, 12:59 pm by Associated Press
The Supreme Court appeared skeptical of requiring the government to divulge what it says is secret information being sought by a Guantanamo Bay detainee. [read post]
10 Oct 2013, 2:37 pm by Raffaela Wakeman
An intriguing development in a Guantanamo-related case ongoing during the government shutdown: detainee Ahmed Adnan Ajam, who challenges Guantanamo transfer restrictions as incompatible with the Constitution’s Commander in Chief Clause (a unique twist, as Ben’s pointed out), this week asked District Court Judge Royce Lamberth to schedule oral argument on his motion for partial summary judgment. [read post]
7 Jul 2014, 6:39 am by Wells Bennett
Have a look at this emergency motion for a temporary restraining order, filed Thursday by attorneys for Guantanamo detainee Imad Hassan. [read post]
29 Jun 2007, 12:17 pm
The June 27 New York Times Opinionator on Bush's options for closing Guantanamo drawn from the same day's Washington Post Editorial "Closing Guantanamo"  outlines the bargaining options available to Bush and Congress in negotiating the closure of the Guantanamo Gulag. [read post]
16 Dec 2008, 5:02 pm
In Guantanamo-related news: Carol Rosenberg of The Miami Herald has articles headlined "Army colonel named chief judge at Guantanamo" and "Guantanamo captive asks Obama to close war court. [read post]
19 Mar 2012, 6:14 am by Benjamin Wittes
British journalist Andy Worthington offers this critique of the recent DNI report on Guantanamo recidivism–and of the press coverage of the report. [read post]