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Pentagon sets date of military commission trial for Australian Gitmo detainee
The Pentagon announced Tuesday that David Hicks , the only Australian held at the US terror suspect detention camp at Guantanamo Bay , will go to trial before a special military commission on November 18, about a month later than earlier expected . (More) |
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Federal judge says Pentagon must act to reveal names of Gitmo detainees
US District Judge Jed. S. Rakoff Monday denied government claims that he was interfering with the president's constitutional authority to wage war when he ordered that Guantanamo Bay detainees be asked if they want their names to be publicized (More) |
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Australian detainee seeks British citizenship to secure release from Gitmo
Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks [Wikipedia profile; advocacy website], arrested in Afghanistan following the September 11th attacks and facing imminent trial by military commission, is seeking dual citizenship in the UK with the hope (More) |
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Lawyers request federal judge to oversee Gitmo hunger strike
Expressing concern over the condition of Guantanamo Bay detainees participating in a hunger strike, attorneys for some of the detainees have told District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly that the detainees are in worse condition than the military has (More) |
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Lawyers for Gitmo detainees on hunger strike request medical records
Attorneys for some Guantanamo Bay detainees asked for access to their clients' medical records Wednesday as they worried that the detainees' eight-week-long hunger strike may be severely harming their clients' health. Lawyers for a gro (More) |
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Australia government welcomes resumption of trial for Gitmo detainee
The Australian government said Wednesday it was pleased with the US decision to resume military commission proceedings against Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks [Wikipedia profile; advocacy website] in light of a US federal appeals court r (More) |
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Trial of Australian Gitmo detainee to start in October
The US Defense Department Tuesday directed that suspended military commission proceedings against Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks [Wikipedia profile; advocacy website] be resumed following a July US appeals court ruling in Hamdan v. Rums (More) |
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Saudi human rights group banned from visiting Gitmo prisoners
The Saudi National Organization for Human Rights, the only human rights watchdog in Saudi Arabia , said Tuesday it has been banned from visiting Saudi prisoners in the US terror detention camp at Guantanamo Bay . Dr. Bandar bin Mohammed, head of the (More) |
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Military, detainee lawyers clash on number of Gitmo hunger strikers
A lawyer for 11 detainees held at Guantanamo Bay says that 90 percent of the 505 prison camp detainees are participating in a hunger strike in "varying degrees," while US military officials have said that only 91 detainees are participat (More) |
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US to release three more Kuwaiti prisoners from Guantanamo
The head of a support group for families of Kuwaiti prisoners held by the US at the Guantanamo Bay military prison has said that American authorities have agreed to release five of the remaining eleven Kuwait prisoners held at the facility, but have (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.
