The US government released the names and nationalities of 46 men classified for “continued detention” at Guantánamo Bay, ineligible for release, transfer or prosecution.
The Pentagon announced that military commission charges have been filed against Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, who has been held at Guantánamo Bay since 2007.
London-based Public Interest Lawyers accused the UK military of detaining at least eight men without charge at the temporary holding facility in Camp Bastion, Afghanistan.
President Obama’s speech outlining plans to restrict drone strikes and renew efforts to close Guantánamo Bay did little more than reiterate existing policy.
Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian detained at Guantánamo since August 2002, has had portions of his handwritten prison-camp memoir published in Slate magazine.
President Obama renewed his pledge to close the Guantánamo Bay detention center—in response to a hunger strike now involving 100 of the facility’s 166 detainees.
US authorities have engaged in the torture of detainees, and the nation's "highest officials" bear responsibility, according to a report by the bipartisan Constitution Project.
Military guards at Guantanámo Bay fired “non-lethal” rounds at hunger-striking detainees as a federal judge turned down a petition for emergency relief.
Italian president Giorgio Napolitano pardoned US Air Force Colonel Joseph Romano of his conviction related to the “extraordinary rendition” of Egyptian cleric Abu Omar.
UN human rights commissioner Navi Pillay called for the US to close the Guantánamo prison camp, calling the continued indefinite incarcerations as a violation of international law.
Approximately 250 Yemeni demonstrators gathered in front of the US embassy in Sanna to demand the release of Yemeni detainees held at Guantánamo Bay.
Human rights lawyers filed an emergency motion alleging that guards at Guantánamo Bay have denied drinking water and sufficient clothing to a Yemeni prisoner.
