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Freed Egyptian detainee says torture at Guantanamo put him in wheelchair
Former Guantanamo Bay detainee Sami-al-Leithy , an Egyptian national transferred to Egyptian custody earlier this month , has told Egyptian television that he was tortured by guards at the US military camp. Leithy, 49, alleged in an interview Sunda (More) |
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Red Cross confirms Gitmo hunger strike
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has confirmed that detainees are on hunger strike at the Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba. The humanitarian agency, which made a 10-day visit to the US base in late September, was allowed to visit (More) |
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Australian Gitmo detainee threatens legal action over UK citizenship application
British lawyers representing Australian Guantanamo detainee David Hicks [BBC profile; advocacy website] have threatened legal action to compel the UK Home Office to grant him citizenship. Hicks applied for British citizenship on the grounds that h (More) |
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British PM asked to intervene as Gitmo hunger strike continues
Human rights groups Amnesty International and Reprieve have sent a joint letter to British Prime Minister Tony Blair , asking him to pressure the US government to consider the demands of hunger strikers at Guantanamo Bay . Over 200 detainees are (More) |
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BREAKING NEWS ~ US Senate approves detainee treatment restrictions
AP is reporting that the US Senate has overwhelmingly approved legislation that sets restrictions on the detention, interrogation and prosecution of terror suspects. The Senate approved the measure by a 90-9 vote margin despite the threat of a Wh (More) |
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Ex-Gitmo detainee convicted, sentenced in Spain for al Qaeda involvement
A Spanish court convicted a former Guantanamo Bay detainee Wednesday and sentenced him to six years in Spanish jail for his involvement in the al Qaeda terror organization. Hamed Abderrahman Ahmed, who hails from the Spanish region of Ceuta in nort (More) |
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US military personnel detail Gitmo, Iraq detainee abuse in new book, meeting
Amid efforts to pass legislation that would impose restrictions on the detention and interrogation of terror suspects, more allegations have been made of detainee mistreatment at US facilities in Guantanamo Bay and Iraq. Army Capt. James Yee , fo (More) |
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Egyptian detainee freed from Guantanamo Bay
The US Department of Defense announced Saturday the release of one Egyptian detainee from the prison at Guantanamo Bay after a military Combatant Status Review Tribunal determined he was no longer an enemy combatant. The unnamed detainee will be (More) |
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Former Abu Ghraib commander says little done to prevent detainee abuse
US Army Reserve Colonel Janis Karpinski , former US commander of Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison , said Friday that the US military has done little to ensure that abuses first exposed by the Abu Ghraib photos are not continuing in US-run facilities in (More) |
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Lawyers request federal judge to oversee Gitmo hunger strike
Expressing concern over the condition of Guantanamo Bay detainees participating in a hunger strike, attorneys for some of the detainees have told District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly that the detainees are in worse condition than the military has (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."
