Chertoff nomination vote delayed as senators await interrogation memo
The US Senate is not expected to vote on the nomination of Judge Michael Chertoff as Secretary of Homeland Security until some time next week as several senators have requested access to an uncensored...
The Bush administration asked the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit late Wednesday to expeditiously decide whether Guantanamo detainees can challenge their confinement in court. Two district court judges recently issued conflicting rulings on the...
Lawyers for Omar Khadr , an 18-year old Canadian citizen and Guantanamo Bay detainee, said Wednesday that their client had been tortured and abused by US interrogators. Khadr is accused of throwing a grenade that killed...
The US State Department Tuesday sharply criticized the selection of Cuba and Zimbabwe for positions on a panel that will set the agenda for the UN Human Rights Commission. "The United States believes that countries that routinely and systematically...
US, France agree to transfer of remaining French citizens from Gitmo
The US has agreed to transfer the last three French citizens being held at Guantanamo Bay to France, with an official announcement of the agreement expected later Tuesday. The remaining detainees are Mustaq Ali Patel, Ridouane...
Chertoff nomination heads for final Senate vote after passing committee
Secretary of Homeland Security nominee Judge Michael Chertoff has been confirmed by the Senate's Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee , with a vote by the full Senate expected before the end of the week. Chertoff was confirmed...
New allegations of torture against detainees at Guantanamo Bay have been made at the trial of five former detainees in Morocco . The five Moroccan men, who were released by the US to local...
Kuwaiti detainees say they made false confessions to stop US abuse
Eleven Kuwaiti detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have said that US troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan abused them before they were sent overseas to the US naval base, according to a lawyer's notes that were declassified and released...
Martin Mubanga , one of four British nationals recently released from the US terror suspect detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, says he plans to sue the British government for its role in his 3-year incarceration without charge...
Six senior UN human rights experts joined Friday to express their continuing concern over the situation of detainees at Guantanamo Bay . In a statement released in Geneva, UN committee chairs and rapporteurs on arbitrary...
