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Former Gitmo detainees allege abuse in Morocco trial
New allegations of torture against detainees at Guantanamo Bay have been made at the trial of five former detainees in Morocco . The five Moroccan men, who were released by the US to local authorities last August, have all pleaded not guilty to ch (More) |
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Kuwaiti detainees say they made false confessions to stop US abuse
Eleven Kuwaiti detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, have said that US troops in Afghanistan and Pakistan abused them before they were sent overseas to the US naval base, according to a lawyer's notes that were declassified and released Monday (More) |
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Former British Gitmo detainee to sue UK government
Martin Mubanga , one of four British nationals recently released from the US terror suspect detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, says he plans to sue the British government for its role in his 3-year incarceration without charge or trial. Mubanga (More) |
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UN human rights experts flag Gitmo detentions
Six senior UN human rights experts joined Friday to express their continuing concern over the situation of detainees at Guantanamo Bay . In a statement released in Geneva, UN committee chairs and rapporteurs on arbitrary detention, enforced disappea (More) |
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US Navy says 3 more Gitmo prisoners wrongly classified
The US Navy announced Thursday that 3 additional prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay had been wrongly classified as "enemy combatants." The findings were made by Combatant Status Review Tribunals instituted after last July's Supreme Cour (More) |
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Judge expedites US government appeal of Gitmo rights ruling
The federal judge who earlier this week ruled that Guantanamo Bay prisoners may not be deprived of liberty without due process of law and that military tribunals set up to review their detentions fall short of the due process standard put her rulin (More) |
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Chertoff grilled on interrogation techniques at Homeland Security hearing
Michael Chertoff , President Bush's nominee for Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security faced repeated questions Wednesday from Democrats at his Senate confirmation hearing about any role he might have played while at the Justice Depar (More) |
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Bosnia asks for release of six Gitmo detainees
Bosnian officials have asked the US government to hand over six men detained at Guantanamo Bay after families of the men staged a protest in Sarajevo . The six, all Algerians, were arrested in October 2001 on suspicion of plotting an attack on the (More) |
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Videos show guards using force against Gitmo detainees, but no systemic abuse
Videotapes show Guantanamo Bay military prison riot squads subduing some detainees by punching them, tying one to a gurney and forcing them to strip from the waist down, according to a report by investigators from the US Southern Command obtained (More) |
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Guantanamo tribunals ruling [US DC]
In re: Guantanamo Detainee Cases, United States District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Joyce Hens Green, January 31, 2005 .Excerpt:Of course it would be far easier for the government to prosecute the war on terrorism if it could imprison (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.
