Republicans seek tougher Guantanamo rules
© AFP/File Paul J. Richards AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama’s Republican foes unveiled legislation to toughen rules on the detention and trials…
© AFP/File Paul J. Richards AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama’s Republican foes unveiled legislation to toughen rules on the detention and trials…
Restart of Military Tribunal System Announced Wiki Commons image Jason Ditz AntiWar President Obama today signed an executive order that will formalize the indefinite extralegal…
Guantanamo Bay prison at Camp Delta in Cuba © AFP/File Paul J. Richards AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama said Monday he would…
© AFP Tim Sloan AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – If Osama bin Laden or Al-Qaeda number two Ayman al-Zawahiri are caught, they will likely be sent…
AFP/Activist Post WASHINGTON (AFP) – The “war on terror” prison at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba is “one of the finest prison…
AFP/Raw Story WASHINGTON – Guantanamo detainees have been holding daily peaceful protests against the jail’s continued existence, despite pledges from US President Barack Obama to…
Alister Bull Reuters President Barack Obama, in a setback to hopes for the quick closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison, reluctantly signed a bill on…
The proposal to create a special new legal system by Executive Order is an extremely dangerous end run around Congress and the Judiciary. Vince Warren…
Dafna Linzer ProPublica The White House is preparing an Executive Order on indefinite detention that will provide periodic reviews of evidence against dozens of prisoners…
image: Jared Rodriguez/Truthout Jason Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye Truthout The Defense Department forced all “war on terror” detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison to take…
Setback for Obama as first former Guantánamo detainee to be tried in civilian court is convicted on just one of 285 charges Chris McGreal Guardian…
Stephen Lendman Rense In March 2005, a UK Deborah Davis Channel 4 report titled, “Torture, Inc., America’s Brutal Prisons” highlighted the horrors, including prisoners savaged…
Omar Khadr Janet Hamlin/Pool/CBC Ben Fox Associated Press GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — A prosecutor urged a military jury to send a message to…
Glenn Greenwald Salon Here is the latest Outrage of Evil from the Persian Hitlers: Iran’s intelligence minister confirmed on Wednesday that two U.S. citizens detained…