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Lawyers for Gitmo detainees on hunger strike request medical records
Attorneys for some Guantanamo Bay detainees asked for access to their clients' medical records Wednesday as they worried that the detainees' eight-week-long hunger strike may be severely harming their clients' health. Lawyers for a gro (More) |
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Saudi human rights group banned from visiting Gitmo prisoners
The Saudi National Organization for Human Rights, the only human rights watchdog in Saudi Arabia , said Tuesday it has been banned from visiting Saudi prisoners in the US terror detention camp at Guantanamo Bay . Dr. Bandar bin Mohammed, head of the (More) |
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Military, detainee lawyers clash on number of Gitmo hunger strikers
A lawyer for 11 detainees held at Guantanamo Bay says that 90 percent of the 505 prison camp detainees are participating in a hunger strike in "varying degrees," while US military officials have said that only 91 detainees are participat (More) |
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US to release three more Kuwaiti prisoners from Guantanamo
The head of a support group for families of Kuwaiti prisoners held by the US at the Guantanamo Bay military prison has said that American authorities have agreed to release five of the remaining eleven Kuwait prisoners held at the facility, but have (More) |
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Gitmo hunger strike unsettling senior US commanders
Widespread hunger strikes at the US military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay are troubling senior US commanders and presenting serious challenges in managing the detainees, the New York Times reported Sunday. As many as 200 detainees or more than 1/3 (More) |
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FOIA DOD records on prisoner abuse by US personnel [ACLU]
Documents regarding the treatment of US-held detainees in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, released to the public by the ACLU on September 15, 2005 pursuant to a FOIA request . Read the full text of the reports here. Reported in JURIST's P (More) |
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More detainees join Guantanamo Bay hunger strike
The latest Guantanamo Bay hunger strike has expanded to include 131 participants and is now at its largest point since the protest began a month ago, a military official said Thursday. According to the military, the latest strike began on August 8 (More) |
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Documents show US interrogators' techniques 'remembered from movies' in Iraq
US soldiers serving in Iraq relied on techniques they remembered from movies to interrogate prisoners, according to documents released Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union as part of its ongoing Freedom of Information Act requests [ACLU m (More) |
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Three more detainees hospitalized as Gitmo hunger strike continues
Three more Guantanamo Bay detainees have been hospitalized as a hunger strike at the prison facility stretched through its second month. Following the hospitalization, a total of 21 are now being fed intravenously to prevent them from dying of sta (More) |
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Investigation showed Gitmo military police, interrogators divided
A US probe into allegations of abuse of detainees at Guantanamo Bay reported that distrust between military police and investigators led to problems at the prison facility, according to new documents obtained by the Associated Press in a Freedom of (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."
