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UNICEF expresses concern over Guantanamo detainee Khadr

May 27, 2010 01:01:49 PM

UNICEF expressed concern Wednesday over Guantanamo Bay detainee and former child soldier Omar Khadr . Khadr was arrested in Afghanistan in 2002 at the age of 15 after...

May 27, 2010 10:56:40 AM

US lawmakers are currently considering a Department of Defense (DOD) appropriations bill containing a section that would allow increased investigation by the Pentagon into the practices of lawyers representing Guantanamo Bay detainees. Section 1037...

May 26, 2010 11:30:02 AM

Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini announced Tuesday that Italy will take two more detainees from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility . The announcement came during a meeting the US officials from the National Security Council,...

May 22, 2010 08:34:52 AM

The US House Armed Services Committee has approved a bill prohibiting the Obama administration from modifying or building a facility in the US to hold detainees currently held at Guantanamo Bay . The National Defense...

May 21, 2010 11:30:53 AM

The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Friday in Al Maqaleh v. Gates that detainees held at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan cannot bring...

May 21, 2010 09:44:41 AM

UK Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Secretary William Hague said Friday that the UK will launch an investigation into allegations that overseas UK operatives were complicit in torture. Hague stated that the new coalition government will initiate a...

May 16, 2010 02:40:29 PM

Maldivian President Mohamed Nasheed has offered to accept two detainees held at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay , discussing his decision during his weekly radio address on Friday. The offer is...

May 15, 2010 02:16:35 PM

Human Rights Watch on Friday urged the new UK government to set up a judicial inquiry on torture allegations and reaffirm its support for human rights. The rights group claimed that allegations...

May 14, 2010 11:25:14 AM

A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday ordered the release of Russian Guantanamo Bay detainee Ravil Mingazov . Judge Henry Kennedy Jr ordered the...

May 12, 2010 11:52:55 AM

A US military judge announced tuesday that the trial of Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr will begin on August 10 . Army Col. Patrick Parrish also ordered pre-trial hearings on...

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