JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that all instances of torture must be investigated as violations of US and international law and a failure to do so will allow impunity for those who authorized...
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The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced Wednesday that high-value Guantanamo Bay detainee Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri will be subject to capital charges and tried in a military court . According...
Poland prosecutors ask US to question Guantanamo detainees over secret CIA prison
Polish prosecutors investigating an alleged secret CIA prison announced Monday that they are asking US officials to question two Guantanamo Bay detainees who claim they were held and abused at the site. The...
Federal judge rejects Algerian Guantanamo detainee's habeas petition
A federal judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday denied the habeas corpus petition of Guantanamo Bay detainee Abdul Razak Ali. The judge rejected Razak Ali's...
US denies Poland request for assistance in secret CIA prison investigation
The Helsinki Foundation for Human Rights announced Tuesday that the US government has refused to provide legal cooperation to Polish prosecutors investigating whether Saudi terror suspect Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri was tortured in...
Guantanamo detainee asks Poland to probe alleged CIA secret prison
Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee Abu Zubaydah on Thursday asked Polish prosecutors to investigate claims that he was abused in a secret CIA prison in the country. Zubaydah, a top al Qaeda suspect, alleges that he...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Thursday published an open letter to US Attorney General Eric Holder , urging him to investigate former president George W. Bush ...
No charges to be filed in CIA videotape destruction case: DOJ
No criminal charges will be brought against Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officials for destroying videotapes of controversial interrogations of terror suspects during the Bush administration, a federal prosecutor announced Tuesday. US Department of Justice...
Documents reveal CIA briefed lawmakers on enhanced interrogation techniques
The US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) briefed lawmakers between 2001 and 2007 on the specifics of enhanced interrogation techniques, according to declassified documents made public by Judicial Watch on...
Ex-CIA agent alleges waterboarding took place before authorization memos
A former CIA counter-terrorism agent alleges that top al Qaeda suspect Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded prior to the issuance of legal memos justifying the practice, the BBC reported ...
