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Hicks in poor health at Guantanamo after five months solitary: lawyer
Australian detainee David Hicks has been kept in solitary confinement at Guantanamo Bay for about five months and his health is deteriorating, Hicks' US military lawyer Major Michael Mori said Wednesday. Mori insisted that Hicks is among the (More) |
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New military tribunal process could leave Hicks in Gitmo for 7 more years: lawyer
Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks may serve up to seven more years in US military custody before facing trial under a new military tribunal system, his military lawyer Major Michael Mori said Sunday. Since the US Supreme Court's d (More) |
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US Army general who ran Gitmo, oversaw Iraq detentions resigns with honors
US Army Major General Geoffrey Miller , the former commander of Guantanamo Bay , retired from the Army Monday with honors. Miller ran Guantanamo from 2002 to 2004, and served as a consultant at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq during 2003, where he (More) |
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Guantanamo Bay detainees attacked guards hundreds of times: DOD records
Detainees at the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay have used items found in their cells to attack military guards hundreds of times, according to Pentagon memos released through a Freedom of Information Act request by conservative legal group (More) |
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UN panel slams US rights practices in wide-ranging report
The UN Human Rights Committee slammed current US rights practices in a report released Friday, saying among other things that the US needs to close all alleged secret detention facilities and allow the International Committee of the Red Cross acc (More) |
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Appeals court lets government file more arguments in Guantanamo cases
The US Court of Appeal for the DC Circuit will allow the Bush administration to file briefs in yet another round of legal arguments challenging hundreds of lawsuits filed by detainees held at Guantanamo Bay . A court panel has outlined a schedule f (More) |
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Spain high court frees ex-Guantanamo detainee
The first prisoner at Guantanamo Bay to be turned over to a foreign government for prosecution was released Monday by the Spanish Supreme Court , which found that the evidence against him was insufficient to support a conviction. Hamed Abderrahaman (More) |
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Kuwait high court upholds acquittals of former Guantanamo detainees
Kuwait's high court Saturday upheld a May lower court decision acquitting five Kuwaiti citizens formerly held at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay of alleged connections with al Qaeda. The five men were returned to Kuwait in November and s (More) |
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Canadian Guantanamo detainee Khadr fires US lawyers
Omar Khadr , the nineteen-year-old Canadian citizen who has been detained at Guantanamo Bay for more than four years, wrote a letter to his mother last week telling her that he has fired his US lawyers, the Globe and Mail reported Friday. A US mili (More) |
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Guantanamo accusations questioned after review turns up basic errors
Accusations against Guantanamo Bay detainees made in declassified documents contain basic factual errors and easily-refuted claims, the Boston Globe reported Friday. After reviewing declassified records, Globe journalists uncovered a number of simp (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."
