This news will be an embarrassment to the US government, which has persistently denied claims that it operated a secret prison on Diego Garcia.

Until now, the administration has maintained it has the right to hold "enemy combatants" without charge until the end of hostilities. A sentence has now ended that open-ended policy.

Reassuringly, for those who care about the Bush administration's assault on fundamental human rights, Biden has been unstinting in his opposition to the prison at Guantanamo Bay.

Two years and two months after three prisoners at Guantánamo died, apparently as the result of a coordinated suicide pact, the Naval Criminal Investi...

As part of its alleged "desire not to hold detainees any longer than necessary," the Pentagon announced on Tuesday that two Guantánamo prisoners had ...

In the lawless world of Guantánamo -- and the United States' even murkier network of secret prisons run by or on behalf of the CIA -- it has taken si...

Just when you think that there can be no more outrageous proposals from the current Lame Duck government, and that it's down to a straight race betwee...