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UK parliamentary panel calls for Guantanamo alternative, assails US
A UK House of Commons committee called Sunday for the British government to work with the United States to develop an alternative to the Guantanamo Bay prison and speed up its closure. The panel, seven of whose members visited the US facility in Se (More) |
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German ex-chancellor accused of 'abandoning' German-born Gitmo detainee
Members of a German parliamentary committee investigating the detention of German-born Turk Murat Kurnaz at Guantanamo Bay alleged Thursday that the government of German ex-chancellor Gerhard Schroeder allowed him to remain a prisoner for years, e (More) |
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DOD official slams US law firms for defending Guantanamo detainees
US Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs Charles "Cully" Stimson has set off a firestorm of protest by publicly questioning the propriety of some of the country's top law firms representing Guantanamo Bay detainee (More) |
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Guantanamo fifth anniversary marked by more calls for closure
Protests against the US military prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay Cuba continued Thursday as the facility marked its fifth anniversary. In Cuba itself, peace activists, including former detainee Asif Iqbal , and Gold Star Families for (More) |
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CIA covering up abuse by refusing to release documents: ACLU
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Wednesday claimed the refusal of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to release two Department of Justice memos points to a cover-up of unlawful abuse. The memos, which discuss interrogation methods a (More) |
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Representing Adel: The Case of Guantanamo Detainee 940
JURIST Special Guest Columnist William Teesdale, an attorney in the Federal Public Defenders Office in Portland, Oregon representing Guantanamo detainee Adel Hamad, a Sudanese national transferred to Guantanamo in early 2003 from Pakistan, says that (More) |
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Guantanamo condemned on eve of fifth anniversary
The US military prison for terror suspects at Guantanano Bay, Cuba drew renewed criticism from rights defenders Tuesday as the camp approached the fifth anniversary of the arrival of the first detainees from Afghanistan. Terry Davis , Secretary Gen (More) |
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Number of hunger-striking Guantanamo detainees doubles
The number of detainees on hunger-strike at Guantanamo Bay has increased this month to 11 from five as the detention center's fifth anniversary approaches on Thursday. US military spokesman have in the past insisted that hunger strikes are a t (More) |
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Navy lawyer to be court-martialed for leaking Guantanamo names
A staff attorney with the US Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps who was accused in August 2006 of leaking detainee names while stationed at Guantanamo Bay was ordered Monday to face court-martial on charges of leaking secret national defense (More) |
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Guantanamo prosecutor expects new charges against detainees by February
Revised charges against a group of Guantanamo Bay prisoners will be drawn up by the US military by February, with first evidence to be presented by this summer according to the chief prosecutor for the commissions speaking to Reuters Friday. US Air (More) |
John Marshall declared federal judicial supremacy over states
On February 20, 1809, US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall ruled in United States v. Peters that the legal power of the federal judiciary is greater than that of any individual state: "If the legislatures of the several states may, at will, annul the judgments of the courts of the United States, and destroy rights acquired under those judgments, the constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery; and the nation is deprived of the means of enforcing its laws by the instrumentality of its own tribunals."
