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Military judge orders submission of Guantanamo reports
A military judge on Wednesday ordered the US government to submit reports on Guantanamo Bay prison conditions and removed restrictions on communications between lawyers and detainees in a case involving five Guantanamo prisoners related to the 9/11 (More) |
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Holder: 9/11 terror suspects should have been tried in civilian court
US Attorney General Eric Holder said at an unrelated press conference on Monday that the slow pace of the trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed [BBC backgrounder; JURIST news archive], the alleged mastermind behind 9/11, would have been avoided had he b (More) |
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Report: US medical professionals participated in detainee torture
Doctors and psychologists working in US military detention centers helped to design methods of torture for terrorism suspects, according to an independent report supported by the Institute on Medicine as a Profession and the Open Society Foundations (More) |
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Guantanamo lawyer seeking declassification of CIA interrogation techniques
The lawyer for five Guantanamo Bay prisoners charged with plotting the September 11 attacks has asked President Barack Obama to declassify the CIA interrogation program that allegedly subjected prisoners to torture. The letter , made public on Fri (More) |
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Federal appeals court upholds conviction of former Guantanamo detainee
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Thursday upheld the conviction of ex-Guantanamo detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani in the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa. Ghailani had appealed his conviction on the premise that his cons (More) |
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Guantanamo inmates pursuing claims under global torture treaty
Lawyers for five Guantanamo Bay inmates implicated in the 9/11 terrorist attacks on Tuesday argued that restrictive rules for classifying evidence violate the Convention Against Torture , a treaty that the US ratified in 1994. The lawyers represent (More) |
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Chief Guantanamo prosecutor agrees to try al Qaeda conspirator in federal court
Mark Martins , the chief war crimes prosecutor for the US military commissions at Guantanamo, said on Monday that he had participated in the decision [Miami Herald report] to bring the case of suspected terrorist Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai to the US (More) |
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Defense secretary names envoy for Guantanamo closure
US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel named Paul Lewis as Special Envoy to oversee the eventual closing of Guantanamo Bay on Tuesday. Lewis will join his US State Department counterpart, Clifford Sloan, in working toward closing the detention center. (More) |
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Federal appeals court rules no jurisdiction in former Guantanamo detainee lawsuit
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled Monday that the Detainee Treatment Act prevents the court from having jurisdiction over a former Guantanamo Bay detainee's lawsuit for damages. Adel Hassan Hamad , a Sudanese national, was capt (More) |
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District judge orders release of mentally ill Guantanamo detainee
On Friday, Judge Royce Lamberth for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the release of Guantanamo Bay prisoner Ibrahim Idris , who suffers from a severe mental illness. Idris, originally from Sudan, was sent to Guantanamo mo (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.
