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Report from Guantánamo: US interrogation techniques under scrutiny
Kevin Lanigan [Law and Security Program Director, Human Rights First]: "Last week I observed three military commissions hearings in Guantánamo: the arraignments of Afghani national Mohammed Jawad and Saudi national Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Ha (More) |
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Guantanamo detainee Khadr accuses US interrogators of threats, physical abuse
Guantanamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] said in an affidavit released Tuesday that US interrogators in Afghanistan threatened him with rape, physically abused him, and forced him to swear to false statements. The 63-i (More) |
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Guantanamo lawyers ask court to restrict prosecution contact with detainees
Lawyers for four Kuwaiti Guantanamo Bay detainees have asked the US Court of Military Commission Review to order prosecutors not to speak to detainees without the consent of their lawyers. In an emergency petition filed with the court last week, th (More) |
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Detained like me: the Guantanamo ordeal of Omar Khadr
Moazzam Begg [former Guantanamo detainee and spokesman for Cageprisoners]: "In January this year, a training document produced by the Canadian foreign ministry, which referred to Guantanamo Bay, listed the United States as a country known to pra (More) |
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'High value' detainee transferred to Guantanamo from CIA custody
The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced Friday that an alleged top al-Qaeda operative has been transferred from CIA custody to Guantanamo Bay. Muhammad Rahim, a former messenger for Osama bin Laden said to have helped the terrorist leader esca (More) |
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Executing 9/11 suspects would make them martyrs: Mukasay
US Attorney General Michael Mukasey [official profile; JURIST news archive] told an audience in London Friday that he hopes those accused in the 9/11 attacks do not receive the death penalty if found guilty because it would make them martyrs. Mukas (More) |
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Giving up the Ghost: Detainees, Doctors and Torture
JURIST Special Guest Columnist and British human and medical rights activist Dr. David Nicholl, a neurologist at Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK, says that Amnesty International's new report into the rendition and torture of one-time &qu (More) |
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Guantanamo detainees written questions ruling [US MC]
United States of America v. Salim Ahmed Hamdan, United States Military Commission, March 14, 2008 . Read the full text of the opinion . Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
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Khadr military judge orders US to turn over interrogation materials
US military judge Col. Peter Brownback on Friday ruled that interrogation materials, including names of interrogators, relevant to the case of Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr [DOD materials; JURIST news archive] must be turned over to Khadr's def (More) |
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Federal appeals court remands Guantanamo detainee bid to block Algeria transfer
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Friday remanded to district court a bid by Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Belbacha to obtain a preliminary injunction barring his transfer back to his home country of Algeria. The court i (More) |
Congress passed Roosevelt's New Deal legislation
On June 16, 1935, Congress passed President Roosevelt's "New Deal" legislation to start a recovery program from Great Depression.
Learn more about FDR and the New Deal from the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.
