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Gitmo detainees allege torture, file FOIA lawsuit for military records
Lawyers for six Guantanamo Bay detainees filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday asking a judge to force the Department of Justice and Department of Defense to comply with their Freedom of Information Act requests for documents, including medical and ps (More) |
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Guantanamo detainee court papers, transcripts [AP]
Guantanamo detainee court papers, transcripts; Associated Press, April 9, 2005 . Review the full text of the court papers, organized in alphabetical order by detainee. Reported in JURIST's Paper Chase here. (More) |
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Transcripts reveal names, details of Guantanamo detainees
Identities and details concerning the cases and treatment of some 60 Guantanamo detainees have emerged from thousands of pages of transcribed documentation filed by detainees' lawyers in US District Court in Washington, where lawsuits challengi (More) |
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Rights group says new DOD detainee guidelines violate Geneva Conventions
In a letter sent to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Thursday, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, Kenneth Roth, slammed the Defense Department's proposed changes to the guidelines concerning the detention of enemy combatants for vio (More) |
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DC Circuit to hear military commissions appeal
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit hears arguments Thursday on the legality of military commission trials of terror suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base . Last November, US District Judge James Robertson ordered military commissio (More) |
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Rice: US cautious over Gitmo detainees' release
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday that the US will be cautious in deciding on the release of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay on terror suspicions. Rice said the decisions were a "delicate balance" between ensuring US s (More) |
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Ruling barring US from sending detainees abroad without notice [US DC]
Mahmoad Abdah, et al. v. Bush, et al., US District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Henry Kennedy, March 29, 2005 . Excerpt:Presently before the court is Petitioners' motion for a preliminary injunction. Asserting that Respondents have (More) |
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Federal judge bars US from sending detainees abroad without notice
US District Judge Henry Kennedy issued a preliminary injunction Tuesday ordering the military to give detainees' lawyers 30 days' notice before transferring a detainee from Guantanamo Bay to the custody of foreign governments, allowing tim (More) |
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Gitmo review tribunals wrap up; 38 detainees ordered released
The Defense Department said Tuesday that Combatant Status Review Tribunals for all Guantanamo Bay detainees have been completed. Navy Secretary Gordon England , who has overseen the CSRT process, announced that 38 of 558 detainees were determined (More) |
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Former Gitmo detainees remain imprisoned without charge in Pakistan
More than three dozen Pakistanis transferred to their home country from detention at Guantanamo Bay remain imprisoned, most without charge, Pakistani government officials have said. The prisoners include 32 transferred by the US in September 2004 an (More) |
Maurice Papon convicted of war crimes
On April 2, 1998, Maurice Papon was convicted of war crimes for his role in deporting French Jews to concentration camps during the Nazi occupation of France. Under German occupation, Papon served as the supervisor of the Service for Jewish Questions in Bordeaux from which he collaborated with the Nazi S.S. and oversaw the deportation of 1,560 Jewish men, women, and children to concentration camps.
Read an biography of Maurice Papon from the BBC.
