Six hundred and twenty-one detainees have been transferred from Guantanamo Bay since 2002. NPR and The New York Times have identified at least a dozen of the 621 whom have resumed terrorist activities. Of that dozen, two became leaders of...
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Federal appeals court overturns two convictions of former al Qaeda media director
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Monday overturned two out of three convictions of Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul , the media secretary of Osama Bin...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Colombia Circuit on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit brought by a former Guantanamo detainee against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld . According to the original...
Unprecedented Notice of Warrantless Wiretapping in a Closed Case
Ramzi Kassem, CUNY School of Law
Federal appeals court denies Guantanamo detainees' challenge to force-feeding
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday denied a request for a preliminary injunction to stop the force-feeding of Guantanamo Bay detainees on a hunger strike. Shaker...
Second Circuit's Decision Provides Unique Window Into Enemy Combatant Decisions
Jeffrey Addicott, St. Mary's University School of Law
Lawyers for former Guantanamo Bay inmate Omar Khadr said Friday they are appealing a Canadian court ruling that denied his habeas corpus application and held that his placement in a federal penitentiary...
Guantanamo detainee files complaint against UK security forces
Guantanamo detainee Shaker Aamer filed a complaint on Wednesday against UK security forces MI5 and MI6 with the Investigatory Powers Tribunal . The complaint was filed on behalf...
During the course of the War on Terror, the US military detained hundreds of individuals as "enemy combatants"a label the US government used to denote their legal status as unlawful combatants without protections under the Geneva Conventions. With military conflicts...
D During his 2008 presidential campaign, President Barack Obama began advocating the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility and holding civilian trials for detainees. Soon after his November 2008 election, reports revealed that Obama's advisers had already begun working...