Ten years ago, Los Angeles attorney Dolly Gee was nominated by President Clinton to serve as a United States District Court judge. But Clinton's term ...
Andy Worthington | Posted 12.18.2009 | Politics
The administration's reluctance to release Yemenis is based on the fear that detainees who were actually harmless in 2002 may have since actually been radicalized by their stay at Guantanamo.
AP | SANDRA CHEREB | Posted 12.14.2009 | Denver
CARSON CITY, Nev. — The Bureau of Land Management approved the removal of 2,500 wild horses from the range near Reno on Monday as opposition gro...
AP | SCOTT BAUER | Posted 10.26.2009 | Media
MADISON, Wis. ? The Associated Press filed a lawsuit Monday against the Wisconsin Department of Corrections seeking the release of a video that shows ...
Andy Worthington | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics
In briefs, the battle lines have been drawn. On the one hand is the government, endorsing Bush-era policies. And for the Uighurs, there is a Boston-based attorney and his team.
Andy Worthington | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics
If the rationale for not releasing the Yemenis from Guantánamo was extended to the U.S. prison system, no prisoner would ever be released at the end of their sentence, because prison "might have radicalized" them.
Andy Worthington | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics
Rulings made by District Court judges in the habeas corpus appeals of prisoners held at Guantánamo seemed to confirm that the courts were uniquely placed to deliver justice to the prisoners.
AP | JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — An 89-year-old white supremacist charged with killing a security guard at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum was ordered to remain ...
Crain's Chicago Business | Greg Hinz | Posted 09.07.2009 | Chicago
U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is recommending a most unusual name for a slot on the U. S. District Court bench in Chicago: the brother of the man he defeated ...
Andy Worthington | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics
Four months ago, 17 unjustly detained prisoners wrote a letter to Obama asking for their release. The government censors have only just cleared it and I have reprinted it here.
Andy Worthington | Posted 09.03.2009 | Politics
Prisoners who do not face ill-treatment on return to their homelands are still held, no matter how many times their release is approved by various representatives of the U.S. government.
Andy Worthington | Posted 08.31.2009 | World
I still have no firm idea why Obama and Holder have allowed the Justice Department to pursue unjustifiable and unwinnable habeas cases, resulting in humiliation after humiliation.
Andy Worthington | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics
A legal quagmire that lacks legitimacy and maintains key policies of the Bush administration's "War on Terror" is almost too awful to contemplate.
Andy Worthington | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics
Sadly, our celebrity-obsessed world is unlikely to pay much attention to the International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture, as the death of Michael Jackson dominates headlines.
Andy Worthington | Posted 07.25.2009 | World
In over three years of researching and reporting about the prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, I learned that many of the men were "Mickey Mouse" prisoners, with no connection to terrorism whatsoever.
Andy Worthington | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics
Khalid Saad Mohammed seized from a hospital in Pakistan and sold to the U.S. military. But the authorities in GITMO had never managed to build up a credible case against him.
Andy Worthington | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics
The Uighurs should never have been held at all; the Pentagon was only interested in them because of the intelligence they might have provided about the activities of the Chinese government.
Andy Worthington | Posted 07.02.2009 | World
Obama needs to find the courage to resist the shrill opportunism of some of his least principled colleagues, and to order the Uighurs' release into the United States.
Andy Worthington | Posted 06.19.2009 | World
It is difficult to see how much of the "evidence" against the Gitmo prisoners can be anything other than a tissue of lies extracted through torture, coercion, bribery and exploitation.
Andy Worthington | Posted 06.14.2009 | World
I am surprised that senior Obama officials seem to have been content to let a Bush-era approach to prosecution survive unchanged.
Andy Worthington | Posted 06.04.2009 | World
Just Binyam Mohamed and the Yemeni doctor, Ayman Batarfi have been cleared for release. At this rate, of course, it will take decades to close Guantánamo.
Andy Worthington | Posted 05.07.2009 | World
Whereas Gitmo prisoners had, over the years, secured habeas corpus rights, none of these privileges had been extended to the prisoners in Bagram.
Andy Worthington | Posted 03.22.2009 | World
First, the good news. Adel Abdul Hakim, one of five Uighurs (Muslims from China's oppressed Xinjiang province), who was released from Guantánamo in M...
Andy Worthington | Posted 03.01.2009 | World
Those of us who prefer justice to arbitrary and unaccountable detention without charge or trial were delighted when, last week, Barack Obama fulfilled...
Suzette Standring | Posted 11.24.2008 | Media
A patch, label or logo does not a murderer make. Let's not start down a road where in time the government gets into the business of controlling tee-shirt slogans.
latimes.com | Hector Becerra | Posted 12.26.2009 | Los Angeles