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12 Aug 2016, 7:07 am
A US Senator on Wednesday released a Pentagon Report [official report, PDF] detailing the profiles of those currently detained in and recently released from the Guantanamo Bay detention center. [read post]
31 Mar 2008, 3:24 pm
[JURIST] The US Department of Defense Monday charged [DOD press release; charge sheet, PDF] Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani [BBC profile] with several terrorism-related counts under the Military Commissions Act of 2006 [PDF text] stemming from his alleged involvement in the 1998 US embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania [US DOS backgrounder]. [read post]
9 May 2008, 5:07 am
[JURIST] US Defense Secretary Robert Gates [official profile] said Thursday that a number of current Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees would pose a new threat to the US if they were returned to their home countries. [read post]
16 Jul 2004, 8:49 am
A Swedish man released last week by the US after being held for two and half years at Guantanamo Bay said Friday that he planned to sue the US government over his detention. [read post]
31 Jan 2007, 12:30 pm
[JURIST] New war crimes charges will be filed against Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees beginning as early as Friday, chief prosecutor Col. [read post]
10 Aug 2007, 1:38 am
[JURIST] The US Department of Defense has cleared for release one of the Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees who was a legal resident in the UK before his detention, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs Sandy Hodgkinson said Thursday. [read post]
27 Apr 2006, 5:38 am
[JURIST] A US military commission at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] holding a pre-trial hearing in the case against Algerian detainee Sufyian Barhoumi [HRF case summary] Wednesday rejected his motion to be moved to a less restrictive detention area. [read post]
30 Mar 2007, 10:15 am
[JURIST] The judge presiding over the military commission [JURIST news archive] for Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks [JURIST news archive] said Friday that Hicks would be be subject to a maximum seven-year prison sentence under the terms of his plea bargain. [read post]
26 Apr 2006, 3:48 pm
[JURIST] Recently-released US military tribunal hearing records [US DOD documents] and other documents indicate at that least seven prisoners at the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay were transferred abroad to jurisdictions practicing torture before their arrival at the base, with three detainees claiming they were actually tortured in those jurisdictions, according to Wednesday's Boston Globe. [read post]
12 Oct 2006, 8:38 am
[JURIST] As many as 80 Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees could face trial before military commissions, a US State Department legal adviser said Thursday. [read post]
19 May 2007, 3:31 am
Diaz, a former staff judge advocate stationed at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive], was sentenced Friday to six months in prison and is to be dismissed from the US Navy for leaking detainee names to a human rights lawyer. [read post]
17 Feb 2008, 3:16 am
[JURIST] Paul Rester, chief military interrogator at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] and director of the Joint Intelligence Group, said in an interview with AP published Saturday that most of the intelligence obtained from detainees at the prison has come through non-coercive questioning and "rapport building," not harsh interrogation methods like waterboarding [JURIST news archive] which [read post]
10 Jun 2008, 1:57 am
[JURIST] Human Rights Watch [advocacy website] decried conditions at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] as contrary to international norms of humane treatment in a report [HRW materials; press release] released Tuesday, saying that detainees face extreme isolation that can cause mental trauma. [read post]
7 May 2006, 9:28 pm
[JURIST] Lawyers for five Kuwaitis [JURIST report] formerly detained at Guantanamo [JURIST news archive] told a Kuwait criminal court Sunday that the Kuwaiti courts lack any foundation for convicting their clients of having links with al Qaeda [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
11 Nov 2009, 4:51 am
[JURIST] Lawyers for four Chinese Muslim Uighurs detained at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] filed a petition for certiorari [text, PDF] with the US Supreme Court [official website] Tuesday, raising issues with the government policy for transferring detainees to other locations. [read post]
29 Dec 2007, 2:02 pm
[JURIST] Former Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks [JURIST news archive] was released from an Australian prison Saturday. [read post]
18 May 2006, 4:26 am
[JURIST] Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal has said that 16 Saudi detainees now held by the US at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] will be returned to Saudi Arabia [press release] in the next few days. [read post]
20 Oct 2007, 3:57 am
[JURIST] The former chief military prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive], Col. [read post]
10 Oct 2003, 4:44 am
Completing a two-month inspection of conditions for terror detainees held at the US Guantanamo Bay military base in Cuba (official website here), a top Red Cross official has said that the indefinite detention of prisoners without charge is unacceptable. [read post]
18 Mar 2008, 11:05 am
[JURIST] Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] said in an affidavit released Tuesday that US interrogators in Afghanistan threatened him with rape, physically abused him, and forced him to swear to false statements. [read post]
