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The US government on Friday dropped all charges against a Kuwaiti national being held in Guantanamo Bay . Faiz al Kandari, who previously lost a petition for habeas corpus, was never formally brought to trial. His case was...

A Kuwait delegate has started discussions with US officials for the release of two Kuwaiti Guantanamo Bay detainees, the Kuwaiti Ambassador told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) on Friday. Sheikh Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah stated [KUNA...

Lawyers for alleged 9/11 conspirator and Guantanamo Bay detainee Khalid Sheikh Mohammed on Tuesday revealed that they have asked a UN official to investigate allegations of torture. Mohammed reportedly confessed...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday announced the launching of its Torture Database , a collection of more than 100,000 Bush-era documents recording "rendition, detention, and interrogation policies and practices." The database was...

Amnesty International (AI) said Friday that a recent Taliban hotel attack that killed 15 civilians should serve as a reminder that the Afghan government should work with the International Criminal Court (ICC) to...

Lawyers for Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee and convict Omar Khadr on Thursday renewed calls for the Canadian government to respond to a request to transfer Khadr to Canada. A former child soldier...

JURIST Contributing Editor Marjorie Cohn of the Thomas Jefferson School of Law says that the Supreme Court's recent refusal to hear appeals from detainees at Guantanamo Bay represents a significant step away from the rights secured for them in Boumediene...

The UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary, or Arbitrary Executions published a report , released Tuesday, asking the US to clarify its policy of targeted killing of terrorism suspects through raids and unmanned drone strikes. Christof...

US Attorney General Eric Holder swore under oath Tuesday that the Obama administration will not transfer Guantanamo Bay prisoners to the Thomson prison in Illinois, despite earlier plans . At a Senate Judiciary Committee...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Tuesday called for the immediate release of immigrants being held in the immigration detention units of the Pinal County Jail (PCJ) in Arizona. The ACLU sent...