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...
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A military judge on Wednesday ordered the US government to submit reports on Guantanamo Bay prison conditions and removed restrictions on communications between lawyers and detainees in a case involving five Guantanamo prisoners related to the 9/11...
Holder: 9/11 terror suspects should have been tried in civilian court
US Attorney General Eric Holder said at an unrelated press conference on Monday that the slow pace of the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , the alleged mastermind behind 9/11,...
Report: US medical professionals participated in detainee torture
Doctors and psychologists working in US military detention centers helped to design methods of torture for terrorism suspects, according to an independent report supported by the Institute on Medicine as a Profession and the Open Society Foundations ...
Guantanamo lawyer seeking declassification of CIA interrogation techniques
The lawyer for five Guantanamo Bay prisoners charged with plotting the September 11 attacks has asked President Barack Obama to declassify the CIA interrogation program that allegedly subjected prisoners to torture. The letter ,...
Federal appeals court upholds conviction of former Guantanamo detainee
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Thursday upheld the conviction of ex-Guantanamo detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani in the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa. Ghailani had appealed his conviction...
Guantanamo inmates pursuing claims under global torture treaty
Lawyers for five Guantanamo Bay inmates implicated in the 9/11 terrorist attacks on Tuesday argued that restrictive rules for classifying evidence violate the Convention Against Torture , a treaty that the US ratified in 1994. The lawyers...
Chief Guantanamo prosecutor agrees to try al Qaeda conspirator in federal court
Mark Martins , the chief war crimes prosecutor for the US military commissions at Guantanamo, said on Monday that he had participated in the decision to bring the case of suspected terrorist Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai...
US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel named Paul Lewis as Special Envoy to oversee the eventual closing of Guantanamo Bay on Tuesday. Lewis will join his US State Department counterpart, Clifford Sloan,...
Federal appeals court rules no jurisdiction in former Guantanamo detainee lawsuit
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday that the Detainee Treatment Act prevents the court from having jurisdiction over a former Guantanamo Bay detainee's lawsuit for damages. Adel...