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A judge in the US District Court for the District of Columbia has granted lawyers for another Guantanamo Bay detainee permission to question Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , the self-proclaimed architect...

A Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee has been pronounced dead by military officials who believe that he committed suicide, according to Wednesday reports. Muhammad Ahmad Abdallah Salih, also known as al Hanashi, was accused of...

Kuwait's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement Sunday that US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has promised that the US will review the files of four Kuwaiti detainees...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Sunday for the US and Yemen to agree on a repatriation plan that provides "meaningful legal process" for the nearly 100 Yemeni detainees still at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news...

JURIST Guest Columnist Marc Falkoff of Northern Illinois University College of Law says that recent release orders, statements by some military lawyers and judges, and the military's own admission of detention mistakes all confirm that the only way for the...

Former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld , as well as more than 100 military officers and personnel, have been sued for the wrongful deaths of two former detainees who committed suicide while at Guantanamo Bay [JURIST...

A Paris court on Monday began a trial in absentia for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , the self-proclaimed architect of the 9/11 attacks , for his alleged involvement in a suicide bombing of a Tunisian...

Anthony S. Barkow : "The fair administration of criminal justice requires prosecutors to exercise their power and discretion to do justice and defense lawyers who are zealous and effective. I was in Guantanamo Bay late last...

Officials from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) said Friday that notes found in the clothes of three Guantanamo detainees who committed suicide in 2006 indicated that they were seeking martyrdom. Military investigations of the...

White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said Thursday that the administration is still working to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center , but suggested that a recent US Supreme Court decision could lead to...