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UK resident to be released from Guantanamo
British resident and Iraqi citizen Bisher al-Rawi is scheduled for release from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay , according to a statement by UK Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett in Parliament Thursday. Held as an enemy combatant at Guantan (More) |
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Former Guantanamo detainees tortured in Russia: HRW
Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a report [text; press release] Thursday detailing abuse and torture suffered by seven former Guantanamo Bay detainees at the hands of Russian law enforcement agencies since their release from US custody in 2004. The (More) |
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Soviet-style rights abuses widespread in Central Asia: IHF
Rights violations being committed in Central Asia are comparable to abuses perpetrated in the former Soviet Union, according the annual report [press release; text] released Tuesday by the International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights (IHF). Th (More) |
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Hicks could be returned to Australia after US military tribunal guilty plea
Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks may be sentenced this week after pleading guilty Monday to a charge of supporting terrorism and could return home to serve his sentence by the end of the year, according to US military officials. Col (More) |
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Hicks pleads guilty to supporting terrorism after two lawyers disqualified
Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks pleaded guilty to a charge of supporting terrorism at an appearance before a US military commission Monday after the presiding judge unexpectedly disqualified two of his three lawyers. Judge Colonel R (More) |
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Al Qaeda suspect in 2002 Kenya hotel attack transferred to Guantanamo Bay
The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced Monday that suspected Al Qaeda operative Abdul Malik had been transferred to the Guantanamo Bay prison over the weekend. According to the statement, Malik has confessed to participating in the 2002 Pa (More) |
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Hicks faces first Guantanamo trial under new US Military Commissions Act
Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks will be arraigned Monday as the first prisoner charged under the new Military Commissions Act [PDF text; JURIST news archive] passed by the US Congress last year. Lawyers for Hicks, who has been held (More) |
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Ex-detainees claim abuse after US tribunal ruled them not 'enemy combatants'
The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) announced Friday that it has amended its case against former Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld [press release; amended complaint, PDF] to include as plaintiffs two former Guantanamo Bay detainees who cla (More) |
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Gates bid to shut Guantanamo overruled by Gonzales, Cheney: NYT
New US Defense Secretary Robert Gates argued during his first few weeks in the position that the military detention center at Guantanamo Bay should be shut down and detainees transferred to the US, according to a report in Friday's New York Ti (More) |
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Amnesty urges US to abandon military commission system
Amnesty International urged the US to abandon the military commission system and try Guantanamo Bay detainees in the federal courts in a report released Thursday, just days before the US military is poised to begin military commission proceedings (More) |
France resumes nuclear testing in Polynesia
On June 13, 1995, France announced that it would resume nuclear testing in French Polynesia. France signed in 1996 signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, after widespread protests ensued following the resumed tests.
