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Jury selection begins in Khadr military trial

August 10, 2010 12:15:56 PM

The military trial of Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr began Tuesday with jury selection, despite international criticism of the proceedings. Khadr pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and terrorism...

August 10, 2010 08:51:13 AM

Sudanese Guantanamo Bay detainee Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al Qosi on Monday reached a plea agreement with the US government setting out the maximum sentence he can receive at his military tribunal...

August 10, 2010 07:33:46 AM

US military judge Army Colonel Patrick Parrish on Monday ruled that confessions by Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr are admissible evidence in his US military commission trial. Khadr's US military...

August 7, 2010 04:01:56 PM

The US Supreme Court on Friday refused to block the military trial of Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr . The Supreme Court issued a one-line order denying the Khadr's...

August 6, 2010 11:24:39 AM

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) transferred several high-profile prisoners to Guantanamo Bay to await trial in 2003, only to transfer them back into the CIA's network of secret prisons so they would not be...

August 4, 2010 01:29:49 PM

The Ontario Superior Court of Justice on Wednesday ordered the release of Abdullah Khadr, the brother of Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr after staying a US extradition request. Abdullah...

August 4, 2010 10:05:39 AM

A US military lawyer for Canadian Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr filed an emergency petition with the Supreme Court on Monday, seeking to stay proceedings in Khadr's...

July 29, 2010 02:13:17 PM

The Obama administration is in danger of entrenching some of the most draconian aspects of the Bush administration's controversial national security policy, warns a new report, from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) ...

July 27, 2010 10:42:31 AM

The Algerian prosecutor's office said Monday that former Guantanamo Bay detainee Aziz Abdul Naji had been indicted, but did not specify the charges. The charges come after a period of detention by the Algerian...

July 26, 2010 11:59:20 AM

The US District Court for the District of Columbia on Friday released a partially redacted opinion on the habeas corpus petition of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Hussain Salem Mohammad Almerfedi ,...

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Communist Poland banned the trade union Solidarity on October 9, 1982, two years after the union started a large-scale strike in the Gdansk shipyard, where it was founded. Solidarity would later become instrumental in the fall of communism in Poland. The union's leader, Lech Wałęsa, was later elected the first president of post-communist Poland in 1990. Learn more about the history of Solidarity.

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