(Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Nov. 9) -- When Omar Khadr, the 21-year-old Canadian walked into the Guantanamo courtroom escorted by three military police on Thursday he seemed calm. His boyish but bearded face was free of obvious emotion. This, after all, was the third time that the Pentagon has tried...

(Guantanamo Naval Base, Cuba, November 7, 2007) -- The Pentagon, seemingly all too aware of what a debacle its military commissions have been, has come with a new tactic to prevent groups like mine, Human Rights Watch, from doing our jobs as watchdogs: Restrict our access to the press and...

When Michael B. Mukasey, the man President George W. Bush has tapped to be the next US Attorney General, appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, senators need to ask him a very simple question: Will he or will he not prohibit torture?

Before the Senate confirms...

As Human Rights Watch's DC-based US program advocacy director, I've spent nearly two years researching and monitoring the military commissions that were set up by the Bush administration to try the "worst of the worst" detainees held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. That is how and why--when much of the rest...