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Last UK Guantanamo detainee on hunger strike: report
The last remaining British Guantanamo detainee is on a hunger strike, the Daily Mail reported Saturday. Shaker Aamer told the Daily Mail via his lawyer that he is still subject to physical abuse despite reports that he will be released sometime mo (More) |
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Defense Department reviewing Colorado prisons as alternative to Guantanamo Bay
Officials from the US Department of Defense (DOD) said Friday that they are sending teams to review three Colorado prisons as part of President Barack Obama's ongoing efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay prison. Officials plan to visit ADX Florence, (More) |
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Morocco violating State Department assurances for former Guantanamo prisoner: lawyer
A lawyer for former Guantanamo detainee Younous Chekkouri said Thursday that the Moroccan government is not upholding the diplomatic assurances it provided to the US State Department regarding the release of his client, namely that it would not pr (More) |
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Algeria man released from Guantanamo Bay seeks reparations from Inter-American court
Former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Djamel Ameziane filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) seeking reparations from the US government for human rights violations he alleges that he endured while in custody. Ameziane (More) |
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Guantanamo Bay prisoner to be released to UK
The Obama administration on Friday notified Congress of its plan to release Guantanamo Bay inmate Shaker Aamer to the United Kingdom next month. Aamer, who was captured in Afghanistan in 2001, is the final British resident held in the United States (More) |
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DOD transfers Guantanamo detainee to Saudi Arabia
The US Department of Defense (DOD) announced Tuesday that it had transferred Guantanamo detainee Abdul Shalabi. Shalabi, who likely was a bodyguard for Osama Bin Laden , was transferred to the government of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia after a Per (More) |
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Lawyers for US soldier held captive in Afghanistan request release of documents
Lawyers for Bowe Bergdahl filed a petition with the US Army Court of Criminal Appeals asking for the public release of unclassified documents that were admitted into evidence in a public preliminary hearing last week. In 2009 Bowe Bergdahl, then a (More) |
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Canada judge relaxes bail conditions for former Guantanamo inmate
Justice June Ross of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta on Friday ruled that former Guantanamo Bay inmate Omar Khadr could visit his family in Toronto for two weeks and do so without an electronic monitoring bracelet. Born in Toronto, Khadr was (More) |
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Guantanamo prisoner released to Morocco
Moroccan born Younis Abdurrahman Chekkouri, who spent 13 years in the Guantanamo Bay prison, was released Thursday as part of the Obama Administration's effort to wind down and eventually close the detention center. The US never formally charged C (More) |
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Guantanamo force-feeding videos released to federal court
The US government, on order from federal judge Gladys Kessler , has released eight redacted videos showing forced feedings at Guantanamo Bay prison. The videos, released to the US District Court for the District of Columbia as part of former prison (More) |
Ford pardoned Nixon for Watergate
On September 8, 1974, President Gerald Ford, in a televised address to the American people, pardoned ex-President Richard Nixon for any offenses committed in association with the Watergate break-in.
Read the full text of Ford's address, or listen to him read the pardon (via Watergate.info).
