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The US Supreme Court on Monday denied certiorari in seven different cases dealing with Guantanamo Bay detainees. The court's refusal to hear the cases preserves the decisions of the US Court of...

Defense lawyers for the alleged architect of the USS Cole bombing, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri , on Friday requested that the court allow for worldwide broadcast of the Guantanamo trial, instead of limited broadcast...

The Canadian Department of Justice on Thursday refused to acknowledge last week's criticism from the UN Committee Against Torture (UNCAT) that Canada has been complicit in torture. During a court hearing in Ottawa for Abdullah...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has ordered attorneys in the case of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee to supply briefs explaining whether the issue has become moot. The case...

The UN Committee Against Torture (UNCAT) released a report on Friday finding that Canada was complicit in rights violations against three Canadians who were held prisoner in Syria, and against Omar Khadr, who is currently...

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Friday that Col. Morris Davis , the former chief prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay may not seek money damages from...

JURIST Contributing Editor Gabor Rona, International Legal Director of Human Rights First, explains that federal judges will continue to strike down terrorism laws that are overly broad...Last week, Judge Katherine Forrest decided that the US government's scheme for detaining terrorism...

JURIST Guest Columnist Tung Yin of Lewis & Clark Law School says that the government's unwillingness to clearly define which activities would make someone a 'covered person' under section 1021 of the NDAA likely resulted in a US District Court...

Federal prosecutors on Friday asked Judge Katherine Forrest of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York to lift an injunction she placed earlier this month on sections of the National Defense...

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday ordered the US Department of Defense (DOD) to turn over three videotapes depicting Kuwaiti Guantanamo Bay detainees...