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British Court Rules Against UK and US in Case of Guantanamo Torture Victim Binyam Mohamed

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Clive Stafford-Smith, John Bellinger, David Miliband, CIA Secret Prisons, US State Department, UK High Court, Terrorism, American Torture, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Lt. Col. Yvonne Bradley, Susan Crawford, Binyam Mohamed, Military Commissions, Politics News

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...

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Clearing Out Guantanamo: Two More Algerians Transferred

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, Mustafa Hamlili, Mohammed Al-Qadir, Tunisia, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Abdulli Feghoul, Abdul Raham Houari, Taliban, Return to Torture, Al-Qaeda, The Guantanamo Files, Algeria, Politics News

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

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Guantanamo Suicide Report: Truth or Travesty?

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.26.2008 | Politics

Read More: Al-Qaeda, Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Mani Al-Utaybi, Yasser Al-Zahrani, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Suicides, Taliban, Ali Al-Salami, The Guantanamo Files, Murat Kurnaz, Politics News

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

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Joe Biden's the Man on Guantanamo, Iraq and the "War on Terror"

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Guantanamo, Joe Biden, War on Terror, Barack Obama, Habeas Corpus, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News

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.

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America's Psychologists Finally Call For An End To Involvement In Torture

Paul Raeburn | Posted 08.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Psychologists, Bush Administration, War on Terrorism, Guantanamo, Torture, Politics News

The APA declared that "no psychologist should be directly or indirectly involved in any form of detention or interrogation that could lead to psychological or physical harm to a detainee."

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Release Hamdan

Justin Florence | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Enemy Combatants, Terrorism, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Supreme Court Guantanamo Detainees, Salim Hamdan, Illegal Detainment, Detainees, Politics News

Mr. Hamdan's sentence, in the Administration's view, will be not that selected by the military, but whatever the president wants. This position is unjust and unwise.

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"Gitmo On The Platte": Denver Warehouse Filled With Cages For Democratic Convention Arrests

CBS Denver | Rick Sallinger | Posted 08.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Democratic Convention, Dnc, Guantanamo, Democratic Convention Denver, Denver, Protesters, Politics News

CBS4 News has learned if mass arrests happen at the Democratic Convention, those taken into custody will be jailed in a warehouse owned by the City of...

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Why Bush Is Quiet on Hamdan Verdict

Jonathan Diamond | Posted 08.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: War Crimes, George Bush, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, Military Tribunal, Terrorism, Keith Allred, Guantanamo, 2008 Election, Enhanced Interrogation, War on Terror, Dick Cheney, Politics News

It's one thing for the chicken hawks in the administration to argue for "enhanced interrogation" techniques, but it's quite another to make that case when you to face the prospect after capture.

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The Media's Response to the Hamdan Trial: Due Process or Dictatorial Sideshow?

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Pentagon, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Salt Lake Tribune, New York Times, Stephen Colbert, Washington Post, Al-Qaeda, Salim Hamdan, Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Kansas City Star, Military Commissions, Media News

As the Olympics and the war in Georgia threaten to sweep all before them, the significance of the lenient sentence handed down by a military jury to G...

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The Hamdan Military Commission Trial: A Post-Mortem

Shayana Kadidal | Posted 08.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo, Military Commissions, Hamdan, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News

Hamdan's trial violated two of the most fundamental principles of the criminal justice systems of all civilized nations: the prohibition on the use of coerced evidence, and the prohibition on retroactive criminal laws.

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A Bill Of Rights Refresher

Kevin Marousek | Posted 08.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Bill of Rights, Constitution, State Rights, Constitution Bush, Constitution Bush Years, Gauantanamo Bill of Rights, Guantanamo, Limited Government Bush, Bill of Rights Bush, Constitutional Protections, Home News

Over the last seven years, I have watched helplessly as my rights have been taken away. The United States government is no longer my government. It no longer watches out for me.

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Salim Hamdan's Sentence Signals the End of Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: John Murphy, Charles Swift, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Judge Keith Allred, Military Commissions, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

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.

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The Hamdan War Crimes Trial: An Illusion of Justice

Sahr MuhammedAlly | Posted 08.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: War on Terror, Terrorism, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Guantanamo Detainees, 9/11, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Al Qaeda, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

Hamdan could have been prosecuted in federal court but the government instead decided to make his offenses war crimes. This in legal terms is ex post facto application of the law -- and it is prohibited by the U.S. Constitution.

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Verdict In Osama Bin Laden's Driver Trial Reached

AP | MIKE MELIA | Posted 08.06.2008 | Home

Read More: Osama Bin Laden, Tribunals, Habeas Corpus, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Detainees, Osama Bin Laden's Driver, Terrorism, Home News

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — The conviction of Osama bin Laden's driver by a U.S. military court after a 10-day trial provides an indicatio...

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Secret "War on Terror" Prison on Diego Garcia Confirmed

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo Detainees, Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ghost Prisoners, Cia, Terrorism, Richard Clarke, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, Abu Zubaydah, Guantanamo, Diego Garcia, British Government, Gen. Michael Hayden, Barry McCaffrey, Hambali, Politics News

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

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Brother of US "Enemy Combatant" Released from Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, Al-Qaeda, Guantanamo Hunger Strike, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Jarallah Al-Marri, Ali Al-Marri, Afghanistan, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, Taliban, Qatar, US District Court, Politics News

What is distressing about this latest batch of releases is that two of the men -- those from Afghanistan and the UAE -- have left Guantanamo as unknown as when they arrived.

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Mukasey: Congress Must "Urgently" Delay Guantanamo Cases

Shayana Kadidal | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Congress, Attorney General Mukasey, Center for Constitutional Rights, Suxxor, Civil Rights, Guantanamo, Politics News

Mukasey's complaints and the accompanying proposals are another attempt to drag us into years of further legal challenges and delays in these cases. Let's take a look at them, one by one.

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Folly and Injustice: Salim Hamdan's Guantanamo Trial

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, US Supreme Court, Terrorism, Ali Soufan, Neal Katyal, Guantanamo Detainees, Judge James Robertson, Guantanamo, Prisoners of War, Salim Hamdan, Military Commissions Act, US District Court, Detainee Treatment Act, Military Commissions, Nuremberg Trials, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Col. Morris Davis, Politics News

As with justice, logic is in short supply in the executive's approach to terror suspects, who have been deprived of the protections of the Geneva Conventions to make false confessions.

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Bin Laden's Driver Walks Out Of His Terror Trial At Guantanamo

McClatchy Newspapers | Carol Rosenberg | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, Osama Bin Laden, Terrorism, Guantanamo, Osama Bin Laden Driver Trial, Politics News

Osama bin Laden's driver walked out of his terror trial Wednesday rather than watch prosecutors show a video of his first U.S. interrogation, in Afgha...

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Guantanamo Prisoners Reportedly Not Told Of Rights

AP | MIKE MELIA | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Terrorism, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Detainees, Habeas Corpus, Detainees, Gitmo Detainees, Politics News

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — U.S. military prosecutors on Wednesday played an interrogation video that shows a driver for Osama bin Laden d...

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Gitmo Trial To Put Gitmo Trials On Trial At Gitmo

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo, Gitmo Detainees, Gitmo, Politics News

The legal reasoning for denying this "last-minute plea deal" was based solely on the fact that preparations for the trial had been made? Sorry, but the show must go on?

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Mukasey: Guantanamo Detainees Raise Legal "Questions" That Congress Should Answer

AP | LARA JAKES JORDAN | Posted 07.21.2008 | Home

Read More: Michael Mukasey, Supreme Court, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Detainees, Habeas Corpus, American Enterprise Institute, Home News

WASHINGTON — Congress, not judges, should decide how to give Guantanamo Bay detainees their day in court, Attorney General Michael Mukasey said ...

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Guantanamo Bay Trials To Start Monday, Judge Rules

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 07.17.2008 | Home

Read More: Terrorism, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Detainees, George W. Bush, Habeas Corpus, Home News

WASHINGTON — The U.S. can begin trying Osama bin Laden's former driver next week at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, a federal judge ruled Thursday, reje...

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"Screwed up" and "abused": Omar Khadr's Canadian interrogations at Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Al-Qaeda, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Nathan Whitling, Omar Khadr, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Omar Khadr Tape, Canada, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

In 2003, when he was 16, Omar was visited by representatives of Special Investigations. The video shows Omar displaying his wounds, weeping uncontrollably and pulling at his hair in despair.

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Gitmo Interrogation Video Released For First Time

AP | CHARMAINE NORONHA | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Omar Khadr, Gitmo, Gitmo Detainees, Gitmo Interrogations, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Bay Prison, Guantanamo Interrogations, Canadian Detainee Gitmo, Interrogation Tapes, Interrogation Video, Gitmo Video, Guantanamo Bay Video, Politics News

TORONTO — A 16-year-old captured in Afghanistan and held at Guantanamo Bay sobs during his questioning, holding up his wounded arms and begging ...

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