Bahraini authorities arrested two former Guantánamo detainees as they attempted to cross in from Saudi Arabia. They are charged with plotting an attack in Bahrain.
His case delayed for years by his “extraordinary rendition” by the CIA from Milan to Egypt, cleric Abu Omar went on trial in absentia on charges of terrorist conspiracy in Italy.
Doctors and psychologists working in US military detention centers helped to design methods of torture for terrorism suspects, according to an independent report.
The lawyer for five Gitmo prisoners charged in the 9-11 attacks has asked President Obama to declassify the CIA interrogation program that allegedly subjected prisoners to torture.
The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that it has no jurisdiction to rule on a former Guantánamo Bay detainee’s lawsuit for damages.
The US Second Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the conviction of ex-Guantánamo detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani in the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa.
A military judge refused defendants’ request to suspend pretrial hearings in the case against five Guantánamo Bay prisoners related to the 9-11 terrorist attack.
The Joint Task Force at Guantánamo Bay suspended daily updates on detainee hunger strikes—despite the fact that 19 detainees continue to be force-fed.
A US judge ruled that the government does not have to release photographs and videotapes taken during the interrogation of Guantánamo Bay detainee Mohammed al-Qahtani.
The Justice Project Pakistan released a report charging that prisoners of the US conitnue to be detained without charge at Bagram base despite the facility’s transfer to Afghan control.
Panama detained but quickly released an ex-CIA agent wanted for kidnapping in Italy. Cuban sources link him to the Contragate scandal; since 2005 he's been living in Honduras.
A federal judge denied a motion by Guantánamo Bay detainees to end forced feeding of hunger-striking prisoners, finding “there is nothing so shocking or inhumane” in the practice.
