Amnesty International said in a report Wednesday that two men currently held in a Yemeni prison seem to have been kept in clandestine US detention facilities in solitary confinement for almost two years. The...
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Witness to Abuse Human Rights Abuses under the Material Witness Law since September 11, joint report by Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union , June 26, 2005 [report claiming that the Bush administration has violated the...
Former US President Jimmy Carter closed a two-day human rights conference at the Carter Center in Atlanta Tuesday by saying that the US should close the Guantanamo Bay military prison camp and two...
Lawfulness of detentions by the United States in Guantanamo Bay, Resolution 1433 (2005), Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, April 26, 2005 [condemning US detention practices at Guantanamo Bay and calling on the US to adhere to international legal standards on...
The Council of Europe, the continent's human rights watchdog institution, condemned US detention practices at Guantanamo Bay Tuesday in a sharply-worded resolution passed by the parliamentary assembly of the 41-nation body accusing the US of having "betrayed its...
Getting Away with Torture? Command Responsibility for the U.S. Abuse of Detainees, Human Rights Watch, April 24, 2005 [calling for a special prosecutor to investigate the roles of US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and former CIA director George Tenet...
German citizen wrongly held in Kabul until Rice release order
US government officials disclosed Friday that a German citizen originally detained as a terror suspect was released in May of 2004, on direct orders from then-national security advisor Condoleezza Rice after he had spent five months in...
Gitmo review tribunals wrap up; 38 detainees ordered released
The Defense Department said Tuesday that Combatant Status Review Tribunals for all Guantanamo Bay detainees have been completed. Navy Secretary Gordon England , who has overseen the CSRT process, announced that 38 of...
A former lawyer for Australian terror suspect David Hicks told a major law conference in Australia Monday that US military videotapes from the terror detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, would be "as explosive as anything...
According to a report in Wednesday's New York Times, military officials have said that at least 26 prisoner deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan have been concluded to be or are suspected of being the result of acts of criminal...
