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Federal judge rules Chinese Gitmo detainees can be held indefinitely
A federal judge ruled Thursday that two Chinese Uighur detainees held by the US at Guantanamo Bay could be detained there indefinitely even though their imprisonment was unlawful. US District Judge James Robertson said that the courts simply had no (More) |
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Senate passes defense bill banning torture but limiting detainee court access
The US Senate on Wednesday approved a defense policy bill banning the cruel and inhumane treatment of detainees in US custody but also limiting the ability of Guantanamo Bay prisoners to challenge their detention in federal court, effectively all (More) |
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Gitmo detainees allege torture in Afghan prison
Eight detainees held at Guantanamo Bay have told their lawyers that they were tortured at a secret prison in Afghanistan, according to report released Sunday by the New York-based Human Rights Watch . The detainees separately provided "consist (More) |
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Pentagon invites OSCE representative to visit Guantanamo
The US Department of Defense announced Friday that it has extended an invitation to special representative Anne-Marie Lizin of the 55-nation Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to visit the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay , (More) |
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Red Cross in talks for full access to US detainees
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Friday that it is in “intense dialogue” with US authorities to visit all detainees held by the US in the war on terror. The US State Department confirmed Thursday that the ICRC (More) |
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Retired US judges urge Congress not to limit court review of Gitmo detentions
A group of 12 retired federal judges on Thursday urged US lawmakers not to pass legislation that would strip federal courts of the power to hear habeas corpus claims brought by detainees held at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay . In a letter to (More) |
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ICRC not visiting all US detainees, official confirms
The US State Department confirmed Thursday that the International Committee of the Red Cross does not have access to all US detainees, but said that ICRC had access to "absolutely everybody" held at Guantanamo Bay . John Bellinger, top l (More) |
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US bans cruel treatment of detainees by worldwide personnel in policy shift
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced Wednesday that the US has changed its policy on the interrogations of detainees, and will impose a worldwide ban on US personnel subjecting prisoners to cruelty, citing obligations under the Convent (More) |
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Military trials set for Canadian, Yemeni Guantanamo detainees
The Pentagon announced Tuesday that military commission trials for two foreign Guantanamo prisoners will begin with plea hearings on January 10 at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility without waiting for the US Supreme Court to decide the legality (More) |
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Secret CIA flights stopped in France, newspaper reports
French newspaper Le Figaro reported Friday that two CIA-chartered flights made secret stops in France in 2002 and 2005 [Le Figaro report], bolstering allegations that the intelligence agency used the flights to transport Islamist terror suspects to (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."
