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US should shut Guantanamo, stop renditions, reveal secret prisons: UN panel
The United Nations Committee Against Torture (CAT) said Friday in a report on its annual review of US compliance with the Convention Against Torture that the United States should shut down its prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay . The r (More) |
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Guantanamo prisoners attack guards trying to stop suicide attempt
Four detainees at Guantanamo Bay attempted to commit suicide on Thursday, and several other prisoners attacked US soldiers who tried to intervene, according to a US military spokesman. Three of the detainees ingested a large amount of prescription (More) |
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Transferred Saudi detainees arrive home from Guantanamo
Fifteen Saudi detainees who were being held at Guantanamo Bay arrived in Saudi Arabia on Friday. The US transferred the detainees to Saudi custody after the transfers were approved by a Guantanamo Administrative Review Board . Saudi Foreign Minist (More) |
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US to transfer 16 Guantanamo detainees to Saudi custody: Saudi foreign minister
Saudi Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal has said that 16 Saudi detainees now held by the US at Guantanamo Bay will be returned to Saudi Arabia in the next few days. During an interview with US media Wednesday, al-Faisal said that after their return (More) |
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Rumsfeld says no agreement yet on revised Army interrogation manual
US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld confirmed Wednesday that military officials are conflicted about the specific guidelines on interrogation techniques to be included in a new Army Field Manual on Intelligence Interrogation during a hearing (More) |
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Pentagon releases more Guantanamo detainee names
The Pentagon Monday released the names of 759 current and former Guantanamo prisoners pursuant to a court-approved agreement with the Associated Press, which had separately sued the Defense Department under the Freedom of Information Act to disclo (More) |
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Russia jails two ex-Guantanamo detainees for 2005 pipeline attack
A Russian court in Tatarstan Friday sentenced two former Guantanamo Bay detainees and another man to between 11 and 15 years in prison for their involvement in a January 2005 gas pipeline explosion on the Volga River. The three had been acquitted (More) |
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Federal judge stays Guantanamo military commission trial of Saudi terror suspect
A federal judge Friday stayed the military commission trial of a Saudi Arabian man who has been held at the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay since 2002 for allegedly plotting with members of al Qaeda to build car bomb detonators in Pakistan and sen (More) |
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US dismisses UK call to close Guantanamo Bay
US officials have dismissed a call from UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith to close the facility at Guantanamo Bay used to detain terror suspects, saying that the US is working to release detainees who no longer pose a threat, but insisting that (More) |
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Goldsmith Guantanamo closure speech [UK AG]
UK Terrorism Legislation in an International Context, Lord Peter Goldsmith at the Royal United Services Institute, May 10, 2006 . Excerpt:...the existence of Guantanamo Bay remains unacceptable. It is time, in my view, that it should close. Not only (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."
