The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) briefed members of Congress from both political parties numerous times about the agency's interrogation and detention programs, several prominent human rights groups said Monday. The groups – Amnesty International USA,...
High Court to Revisit Terrorism Support Law
Next week, the U.S. Supreme Court will consider one of the most consequential cases to arise from the "global war on terror." The nine justices will hear lawyers' arguments in a case known as Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, which challenges a portion of...
Court Won’t Rule on Deaths at Guantánamo
A federal district court has thrown out the case of two men who died in U.S. custody at Guantánamo Bay in 2006 and who are seeking to hold U.S. government officials responsible for the men's torture, arbitrary detention and ultimate deaths. The families of the dead...
The Seven Paragraphs that Shook US-UK Ties
A British court has ordered the publication of previously secret information that appears to reveal the UK government's complicity with the U.S. in the torture of Binyam Mohamed, a British resident who was imprisoned by the U.S. at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The decision...
Legal Experts Slam Assassinations of US Citizens
Civil liberties advocates and legal authorities struck back Friday at what they describe as the "deliberate targeted killing of U.S. citizens far away from any active hostilities, as long as the executive branch determines unilaterally that they meet a secret...
JAG Officer: Indefinite Detention ‘Defies Common Sense’
U.S. President Barack Obama's decision to detain 47 of the just-under 200 remaining prisoners at Guantánamo without trial indefinitely is drawing scorn from legal experts and human rights advocates, who charge that the government simply does not have enough...
Whistleblower Challenges Guantánamo ‘Suicides’
Is the administration of President Barack Obama concealing evidence suggesting that three suicides at Guantánamo Bay were not suicides at all? That is a question human rights groups, legal experts and national security specialists are pondering on the heels of an...
US Names Bagram Prisoners, Withholds Details
After years of stonewalling, the U.S. Defense Department has released the names of people imprisoned at the notorious Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. Made available in response to an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, the...
British Govt. to Release Documents on Gitmo Case
After months of denial, the British government has agreed to release secret documents that lawyers say could prove that MI5 agents were present during the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency's torture of a British resident held by the U.S. government for eight years....
World’s Most Controversial Prison Enters Ninth Year
As the world marked the beginning of the ninth year of detention at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Monday, a leading legal advocacy group filed suit against the Library of Congress for firing Guantanamo's former chief prosecutor for writing articles...