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No Habeas at Guantanamo? The Executive and the Dubious Tale of the DTA
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Ian Wallach, habeas counsel for several Guantanamo Bay detainees, says that the US Executive Branch may have engaged in questionable acts and disseminated inaccurate information to encourage Senate passage of provisions (More) |
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World Christian leaders criticize Guantanamo detentions
Leaders of the both the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches have sharply criticized the US prison at Guantanamo Bay as international pressure builds to close down the controversial facility that currently contains almost 500 individuals the US gov (More) |
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Judge considers Gitmo force-feeding in first test of Detainee Treatment Act
At a hearing in Washington Thursday US District Judge Gladys Kessler questioned the treatment of Mohammed Bawazir, a former hunger striker at Guantanamo Bay eventually force-fed in treatment his lawyers say was torture contrary to the terms of the (More) |
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Pentagon defends denying UN investigators access to Gitmo detainees
A US Department of Defense official Wednesday defended the government's decision in October to refuse access by UN investigators to detainees being held at the US prison base in Guantanamo Bay , and reiterated that the operation of the facilit (More) |
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Blair 'hopes' for Guantanamo closure
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair told the British House of Commons Wednesday that he hopes the US will close its much-criticized detention camp at Guantanamo Bay , but measured his words by adding that the US had justifiably opened it in response to th (More) |
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Detainee lawyer wants court to prohibit Guantanamo force-feedings
A lawyer for a Yemeni prisoner held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp has filed a motion in DC federal court asking that the use of a restraint chair and large nasal feeding tubes to force-feed his client be prohibited if he resumes his hunger s (More) |
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US holding Afghanistan detainees in cages without charge: report
Inmates at the main US base in Afghanistan are being held in "primitive conditions, indefinitely and without charges" according to a Sunday New York Times report . Over 500 terror suspects are held at Bagram Air Base , located north of Ka (More) |
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FBI memos suggest top military officials endorsed harsh Gitmo interrogations
FBI memos released Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act action suggest that senior US military officials, up to and including former Undersecretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, were aware o (More) |
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Federal judge orders DOD release of Guantanamo detainee names by March 3
US District Judge Jed S. Rakoff of the Southern District of New York on Thursday ordered the Defense Department to release uncensored transcripts, including detainee names, of 317 Combatant Status Review Tribunal hearings held at Guantanamo Bay . (More) |
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Reports decry UK anti-terror policies on rights, torture, Guantanamo
Two separate reports issued in Britain Thursday strongly criticized the anti-terror strategy of Prime Minister Tony Blair's government, documenting domestic deprivations of human rights, condemning UK policy on torture, and urging the government (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."
