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Detainee lawyer notes detail 'brutal treatment' at Guantanamo
The New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights said Wednesday that declassified notes, taken by a lawyer during interviews with inmate clients participating in the ongoing hunger strike , describe "brutal treatment" of detainees at (More) |
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Lawyer for Gitmo hunger-strikers asks judge to allow more legal, medical visits
A lawyer for detainees at the US detention camp at Guantanamo Bay currently on hunger strike argued Friday before US District Judge Gladys Kessler that prisoner attorneys needed more frequent access to their clients. Julia Tarver, representing fo (More) |
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Afghanistan readies prisons for transfer of Gitmo detainees
Afghanistan's defense ministry said Monday that the country is preparing prison facilities to hold detainees who are expected to be transferred from the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay . Defense ministry spokesman General Mohammad Zahir Azimi s (More) |
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Guantanamo Process as a Public Danger
JURIST Guest Columnist Brian J. Foley of Florida Coastal School of Law says that the less-than-rigorous procedural rules governing the tribunals and military commissions at Guantanamo Bay endanger us as surely as any terrorists... The prevailing bel (More) |
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Freed Egyptian detainee says torture at Guantanamo put him in wheelchair
Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Sami-al-Leithy , an Egyptian national transferred to Egyptian custody earlier this month , has told Egyptian television that he was tortured by guards at the US military camp. Leithy, 49, alleged in an interview Sunda (More) |
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UN expert assails Iraq tribunal, says US, UK anti-terror laws undermine rights
A UN human rights expert Monday said the Iraqi Special Tribunal (IST) that will soon be trying Saddam Hussein did not meet international standards and should be replaced by an independent UN body, and criticized US and UK anti-terror laws for underm (More) |
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Kuwaiti, Egyptian detainees set to be released from Guantanamo Bay
The Kuwaiti ambassador to Washington announced Sunday that five of the 11 Kuwaitis detained at Guantanamo Bay would "soon" be released to the government of Kuwait and tried before a court in that country. Sheikh Salem Abdullah al-Jaber a (More) |
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White House withdraws Deputy Attorney General nomination
The White House issued a brief statement Friday withdrawing the nomination of corporate attorney Timothy Flanigan to be US Deputy Attorney General. Flanigan forwarded a letter to President Bush Friday requesting that the nomination be recalled, cit (More) |
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Red Cross confirms Gitmo hunger strike
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has confirmed that detainees are on hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba. The humanitarian agency, which made a 10-day visit to the US base in late September, was allowed to visit (More) |
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Australian Gitmo detainee threatens legal action over UK citizenship application
British lawyers representing Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks [BBC profile; advocacy website] have threatened legal action to compel the UK Home Office to grant him citizenship. Hicks applied for British citizenship on the grounds that h (More) |
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg sentenced to death for spying
On April 5, 1951, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were sentenced to death after a treason trial in which they were convicted of passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
Learn more about the Rosenberg trial.
