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Former Guantanamo detainee Khadr to appeal terrorism conviction
April 29, 2013 by Peter Snyder
A former Canadian Guantanamo prisoner is planning to appeal his US terrorism conviction, his lawyer said Sunday. Omar Khadr, who spent 10 years in Guantanamo, is currently imprisoned in a maximum security prison in Ontario serving out six years of an eight-year sentence for war crimes. Khadr was.... [more]
US has engaged in torture authorized by highest officials: report
April 16, 2013 by Daniel Mullen
US authorities have engaged in the torture of detainees, and the nation's "highest officials" bear some of the responsibility, according to a report released on Tuesday by the Constitution Project, a bi-partisan legal advocacy and watchdog group. The Task Force on Detainee Treatment was.... [more]
Guantanamo detainee requests immediate relief amid alleged mistreatment, hunger strike
March 28, 2013 by Brandon Gatto
Human rights lawyers on Tuesday filed an emergency motion in the US District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that guards at Guantanamo Bay have denied drinking water and sufficient clothing to a Yemeni prisoner. The motion was filed only a day before a fact-finding visit to the US.... [more]
Navy lawyers: Guantanamo bugs did not breach detainee attorney-client privilege
February 13, 2013 by Jerry Votava
Military lawyers from the US Navy on Tuesday said that surveillance equipment deployed throughout the Guantanamo Bay detention center was not used to breach attorney-client privilege. The officials indicated that devices used to record audio and video were routinely placed throughout the.... [more]
Guantanamo detainee seeks ECHR ruling on Poland role in CIA secret prison
January 29, 2013 by Julia Zebley
Lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainee Abu Zubaydah on Monday asked the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to rule on whether Poland violated their client's rights by aiding the US in detaining and allegedly torturing Zubaydah in a secret CIA prison. Zubaydah, a top al Qaeda suspect, alleges that.... [more]
Federal court: post-9/11 detainee lawsuit against federal officials dismissed
January 17, 2013 by Jerry Votava
A judge for the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit against federal law enforcement officials by men who claim they were illegally detained after 9/11. The suit is Turkmen v. Ashcroft. The court dismissed the suit against former Department of.... [more]
Federal judge rules Guantanamo detainee has no right to top secret information
January 10, 2013 by Sung Un Kim
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Wednesday that lawyers for a detainee at Guantanamo Bay may not review top secret documentation. Wali Mohammed Morafa, who has been detained for financially aiding the operations of terrorist organizations, including al Qaeda,.... [more]
Guantanamo detainee launches defamation suit against UK agencies
December 16, 2012 by Cynthia Miley
Guantanamo detainee Shaker Aamer has filed a defamation lawsuit claiming that British agencies MI5 and MI6 had given the US statements the agencies knew to be false. While Aamer has been cleared for release from Guantanamo, he has not been returned to the UK yet. Aamer was detained in Afghanistan.... [more]
Federal judge affirms denial of habeas petition for Guantanamo detainee
December 16, 2012 by Cynthia Miley
A federal judge for the US District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday affirmed a denial of a petition for habeas corpus from Guantanamo Bay detainee Khirullah Khairkhwa. The US District Court for the District of Columbia originally denied Khairkhwa's petition for.... [more]
Senators reported that US detainee abuses were approved by senior officials [this day at law]
December 11, 2012 by Zachariah Rivenbark
On December 11, 2008, US Senators Carl Levin (D-MI) and John McCain (R-AZ) released the executive summary of a Senate Armed Forces Committee report that blamed senior US officials for the use of abusive interrogation techniques against detainees held in Guantanamo Bay and other US military.... [more]
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