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Gitmo prisoners protest detentions with hunger strike
Fifty-two detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp are protesting their detentions and allegedly inhumane treatment by refusing meals, according to a statement released Thursday by the naval base's Joint Task Force . The prisoners have so far (More) |
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Getting on With It: Pragmatism at Guantanamo
JURIST Guest Columnist Darryll Jones, former criminal trial attorney for the US Army Judge Advocate General and now a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, says that the recent ruling of the US DC Circuit Court of Appeals on th (More) |
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Released Afghan detainees claim widespread hunger strike at Gitmo
Two just-released Guantanamo Bay detainees told reporters Wednesday that more than 180 prisoners at the US detention facility in Cuba are 14 days or so into a hunger strike. Habir Russol and Moheb Ullah Borekzai, both from Afghanistan, indicated (More) |
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US returns three Guantanamo detainees to Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia announced Wednesday that the United States has returned three Saudi detainees from the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Government television said that "legal measures concerning them will be completed" but gave no other de (More) |
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Death penalty not expected in Gitmo detainee trials
A top adviser to the military commissions trying the 12 Guantanamo detainees charged with war crimes said Tuesday that he did not think any of the charges were serious enough to warrant a death sentence. Brigadier General Thomas Hemingway , Legal Ad (More) |
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Hicks lawyers looking to avoid military trial
Despite approval of a military tribunal by the US courts and Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock , lawyers for Australian terror suspect David Hicks [Wikipedia profile, advocacy website] are looking to the US federal courts to get his trial (More) |
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Military commissions resumption statement [US DOD]
Press statement on resumption of military commissions, US Department of Defense, July 18, 2005 [indicating that commission proceedings will resume following the July 15 US DC Circuit Court of Appeal ruling in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld]. Excerpt:The Office o (More) |
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Moroccan Gitmo prisoner extradited to Spain
US officials at Guantanamo Bay Monday extradited Moroccan Lahcen Ikassrien to Spain to answer charges that he assisted al-Qaida cell leader Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas in planning the September 11 attacks. Ikassrien was arrested and sent to the pris (More) |
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BREAKING NEWS ~ Gitmo terror suspect trials to resume ASAP
AP is reporting that US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld has said that military trials of two suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay will resume as soon as possible and charges will be filed against eight other detainees.2:25 PM ET - Rumsfe (More) |
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Australia wants speedy military trial for Gitmo detainee, but lawyers balk
After US courts approved military trials for terrorism suspects, Australian Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said his government now wished for a speedy trial for David Hicks [Wikipedia profile, advocacy website], an Australian who was captured in (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.
