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Canada court rejects Guantanamo detainees' bid to access intelligence records
The Federal Court of Canada Monday dismissed an application by two Guantanamo Bay detainees requesting access to Canadian interrogation records. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian with landed immigrant status in Canada, and Ahcene Zemiri , an Al (More) |
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Italy official says country will not accept Guantanamo detainees
Speaker for Italy's Chamber of Deputies Gianfranco Fini said Monday that Italy will not accept detainees released from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay . Fini made the announcement after a meetin (More) |
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UK Guantanamo detainee medically cleared for potential release
UK resident and Guantanamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed [BBC profile; JURIST news archive] was found by British authorities on Sunday to be healthy enough to return to the UK if the US government acquiesces to the request for his release. A group se (More) |
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Obama administration begins review of Guantanamo Bay detainees
An Obama administration official said Friday that a review of detainees, the first step in closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay , has begun [Los Angeles Times report]. US President Barack Obama issued the executive order last month that initiated (More) |
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Rendition Revisited: Panetta and Obama Step into the Gray
JURIST Guest Columnist Afsheen John Radsan, former CIA assistant general counsel now at William Mitchell College of Law, says that instead of categorically rejecting rendition as a US strategy, new CIA chief Leon Panetta and President Obama will like (More) |
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Lithuania weighs taking Guantanamo prisoners
Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Vygaudas Usackas said Wednesday that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs will begin talks with the US about the possibility of accepting prisoners from Guantanamo Bay . Lithuanian Defense Minister Rasa Jukneviciene (More) |
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Federal judge rejects jurisdiction over Guantanamo force-feeding case
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia denied Tuesday a petition by two Guantanamo Bay detainees to stop the force-feeding imposed on them during their hunger strike, ruling that the court lacks jurisdiction over the matte (More) |
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Binyam Mohamed lawyer says torture details withheld from Obama
Information redacted from a British High Court decision [text, PDF; JURIST report] released last week has been withheld from US President Barack Obama and may hold key information about British involvement in the alleged torture of Guantanamo Bay (More) |
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Khadr lawyers propose plan for Canadian's repatriation from Guantanamo
Lawyers for Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] presented a plan Wednesday to return the Guantanamo Bay detainee to Canadian society. The outline, laid out at a news conference [Toronto Star report] in Toronto, calls for assessments of (More) |
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DOJ urges court not to define 'enemy combatant'
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) urged the US District Court for the District of Columbia Monday to refrain from addressing the definition of an enemy combatant , an exercise which the DOJ argues could force the Court to unnecessarily decide the (More) |
Watergate burglars arrested for DNC break-in
On June 17, 1972, James McCord, security director of President Richard Nixon's re-election committee, and four Cuban-Americans are arrested for breaking into the Democratic National Committee Headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, DC.
Learn more about the Watergate scandal.
