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Specter to open hearings on rights of Gitmo detainees
US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter opens hearings Wednesday on the legal rights of detainees held by the US at Guantanamo Bay. Part of the agenda for the hearings is to examine the due process rights of the prisoners and the auth (More) |
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Rumsfeld Guantanamo briefing [US DOD]
US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld briefing on the military detention center at Guanatanamo Bay and other subjects, June 14, 2005 . Excerpt:Allegations of abuse at Guantanamo, as at any other U.S. military facility, have been thoroughly investig (More) |
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Rumsfeld defends prisoner treatment, says no reason to close Guantanamo Bay
US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in a Pentagon news conference Tuesday that the US government had gone to great length and enormous expense to ensure that terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay were well-treated and that there was no reason t (More) |
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GOP Armed Services chair says White House divided on Guantanamo closing
US Representative Duncan Hunter , chairman of the House Armed Services Committee , said in an interview with Fox News Sunday that there are members of the Bush administration who want to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp to end the debate over al (More) |
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GOP Senator calls for Guantanamo closure
Republican Senator Mel Martinez has become the first major GOP lawmaker to call for the closure of the military terror detention camp at Guantamao Bay . Speaking Friday in Florida, Martinez, a former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in th (More) |
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Rumsfeld says no plans to close Guantanamo
Despite increasing pressure to close the US military prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday that the government did not have any plans to shut down the facility any time soon. Rumsfeld told (More) |
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Bush noncommittal on Guantanamo shutdown
When asked about the fate of the US prison camp in Guantanamo Bay during a Fox News interview Wednesday, President Bush insisted that all prisoners there are being treated in accordance with international standards, but did say that the government (More) |
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Prisoners begin hunger strike as Israeli officials deny Koran abuse
Palestinian detainees at Israel's Megiddo prison [Jerusalem Post report] began a hunger strike on Wednesday as Israeli officials denied reports that prison guards there had abused the Koran, echoing similar stories from Guantanamo Bay . Prisoner (More) |
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Carter calls for Guantanamo Bay shutdown
Former US President Jimmy Carter closed a two-day human rights conference at the Carter Center in Atlanta Tuesday by saying that the US should close the Guantanamo Bay military prison camp and two dozen other secret detention centers in order to (More) |
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Biden: US should close Guantanamo Bay prison
US Senator Joseph Biden said Sunday on ABC-TV's This Week that the US should begin efforts to close down the military prison camp in Guantanamo Bay. Biden, head Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee , also suggested that an indepen (More) |
First Non-Aligned Movement conference closes
On September 6, 1961, the Non-Aligned Movement concluded its first official conference in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. The organization was founded in 1955 to support mostly developing countries who did not wish to side with either of the great Cold War powers. It also worked to shepherd these nations through the process of decolonization.
Learn more about the history and founding principles of the Non-Aligned Movement.
