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...
Swiss Take Two Guantánamo Uighurs, Solve Obama’s Problem
Congratulations to the Swiss Canton of Jura, which recently accepted the asylum claims of two Uighur prisoners at Guantánamo, and to the Swiss federal government for agreeing to accept Jura’s decision on Wednesday. The two men in question -- Arkin Mahmud, 45, and his...
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...
Remembering ‘Suicides’ in the Rotunda
In the absence of an intact corpse, families often gather for memorial services rather than funerals. The families of Salah Ahmed al-Salami, Mani Shaman al-Utaybi, and Yasser Talal al-Zahrani – three Guantánamo prisoners whose earlier purported suicides were...
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...
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...
Afghan Prisoners Challenge Indefinite Detention
While the unsuccessful attempt to bring down a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day captured the headlines and put major political roadblocks in the path of prisoner release from Guantanamo Bay, the courts – far more quietly – continued to play a major...
