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On October 7, 2001, following the beginning of the War on Terror, the US military began detaining hundreds of suspected terrorists. Many of those captured were designated "enemy combatants" — a label coined by the administration of President George W....

Guantanamo Bay was leased to the US by Cuba on February 23, 1903, as part of the Cuban-American Treaty. Although the US maintained a military presence at Guantanamo Bay since the Spanish-American War, the perpetual lease allowed the US military...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Wednesday granted the US government's motion for a temporary delay in enforcement of a court order banning genital searches at Guantanamo Bay . The searches...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Tuesday denied a motion by Guantanamo Bay detainees to end forced feeding of hunger-striking prisoners. The petitioners maintained that the...

Tung Yin, Lewis & Clark Law School

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Monday denied a Guantanamo Bay prisoner's petition to end the practice of force-feeding hunger strikers. Judge Gladys Kessler...

Defense lawyers for detainee Ibrahim Idris have argued that he is too mentally and physically ill to remain at Guantanamo Bay in a habeas corpus petition filed at the US District Court for...

Younis Chekkouri, a Moroccan Guantanamo Bay detainee, recently disclosed in a letter to his lawyer that the US military personnel are punishing him and other hunger-strikers every time they leave or return to their...

Four Guantanamo Bay prisoners filed a motion in the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Sunday asking the federal court to order the prison's officials to stop the practice of...

A federal judge called Tuesday on members of Congress and the president to give serious consideration to formulating a different approach for the handling of Guantanamo Bay detainee cases. The US Court of Appeals for the District...