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Saudi Arabia releases three former Guantanamo detainees
Saudi Arabia has freed three former Guantanamo Bay detainees who were repatriated there last year. According to an Interior Ministry source, the three "admitted to have been present in troubled areas without obtaining the consent of their pare (More) |
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US reports 75 Guantanamo prisoners on revived hunger strike
The US military said Monday that the number of Guantanamo Bay detainees participating in a hunger strike has increased from 3 to about 75. Navy Cmdr. Robert Durand described the strike as an effort to attract attention. He speculated that it may (More) |
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Over 60 Guantanamo detainees were juveniles when captured: UK rights group
The British prisoners rights group Reprieve has claimed that over 60 of the foreign detainees imprisoned by the US at Guantanamo Bay were juveniles under 18 years of age when captured, and that some were as young as 14. Reprieve told the Independe (More) |
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Guantanamo detainees who attempted suicide recovering
A US military spokesperson said Tuesday that the condition of two of the Guantanamo Bay detainees who attempted suicide last week is improving and both are expected to make full recoveries. The two men, neither of whom were prescribed antidepressa (More) |
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Bin Laden tape claims Moussaoui, Guantanamo prisoners had no role in Sept.11
In a newly released five minute audio tape found on an Islamist website Tuesday, a man claiming to be Osama bin Laden said that convicted September 11 conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui was not intended to be one of September 11 hijackers as he had (More) |
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Second Abu Ghraib dog handler faces court-martial
Court-martial proceedings against US Army Sgt. Santos A. Cardona began Monday on charges of maltreatment of prisoners, dereliction of duty and assault connected to Cardona's alleged use of unmuzzled dogs when questioning detainees at Iraq's (More) |
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UK to challenge Europe rights court ban on deportation to abusive regimes
UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith said Saturday that the British government will ask the European Court of Human Rights to review a long-standing ban against EU countries deporting individuals to countries where they would be at risk of torture or (More) |
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US prison inmates need more protection from rape, brutality: UN
The UN Committee against Torture report released Friday on US compliance with the Convention Against Torture urged the US to do more to protect domestic prisoners and suspects from violence and threats of violence, in addition to calling on it t (More) |
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White House to UN: Guantanamo 'fully within the boundaries of American law'
The White House Friday responded to a report [PDF text; JURIST report] by the UN Committee Against Torture (CAT) calling on the US to shut down its Guantanamo Bay detention facility by reinterating President Bush's statement that he hopes to (More) |
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UN report on US compliance with torture treaty [UN CAT]
Conclusions and recommendations of the Committee against Torture: United States of America, UN Committee Against Torture, May 18, 2006 . Excerpt:The State party should cease to detain any person at Guantanamo Bay and close this detention facility, pe (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."
