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Supreme Court asked to consider Guantanamo tribunals case
Lawyers for Guantanamo detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan filed a petition of certiorari [PDF text; PDF appendix] on Monday, asking the US Supreme Court to block military tribunals for terror suspects. The high court had once before denied cert on a reques (More) |
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UPDATE ~ US negotiating with three nations about transfer of Gitmo prisoners
Updating an earlier story, the US is now reportedly engaged in discussions with three countries about the transfer of detainees currently being held in Guantanamo Bay back to their home jurisdictions. A US agreement with Saudi Arabia and Yemen for (More) |
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US agrees to 'gradual' transfer of prisoners to Afghan custody
A US embassy spokesman in Kabul said Thursday that the US will gradually return Afghan prisoners in US custody to Afghan custody once Afghanistan develops the capacity to detain them. The announcement comes after President Bush's meetings in May (More) |
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Amnesty says Yemenis detained by US at secret location
Amnesty International said in a report [text; press release] Wednesday that two men currently held in a Yemeni prison seem to have been kept in clandestine US detention facilities in solitary confinement for almost two years. The group claims that (More) |
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Third prosecutor joined criticism of Guantanamo trials, transferred out
A third US military prosecutor asked for a transfer from the Guantanamo military tribunals in March 2004 after voicing complaints about their fairness, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. ABC previously reported on emails in which (More) |
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Detainee alleges abuse en route to Guantanamo
Benyam Mohammed , a 27-year-old Ethiopian man held at Guantanamo, claims he was tortured in Pakistan, Morocco, and Afghanistan before arriving in Cuba. While there is no independent verification for Mohammed's claims, it is not the first allegat (More) |
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Australia still backing US military tribunals after e-mail controversy
Despite newly-uncovered e-mails from former US military prosecutors that characterize the military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay as "rigged" and "a fraud", the Australian government is still backing a military trial for detained A (More) |
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Rights group claims US holds two Uighurs at Gitmo after clearance
According to the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the US military is holding two ethnic Uighur Muslims at Guantanamo that have been found not to be enemy combatants. Lawyers for Abu Bakker Qassim and Adel Abdu al-Hakim went before a federal (More) |
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UPDATE ~ DOD calls Gitmo emails from former military prosecutors "much ado about nothing"
A US Department of Defense spokesperson Monday dismissed allegations made by two former military prosecutors that the military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay are "rigged" and often deprive defendants of evidence that could help prove their i (More) |
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FBI memo warned against sending terrorism suspects abroad to be tortured
An FBI memo obtained by Newsweek to be reported in its August 8 print edition warned three years ago that government officials could be prosecuted for planning transfers of terrorism suspects to countries that allow torture, a process called extraor (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.
