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.
The US turned over full control of Bagram Prison to Afghanistan, after long maintianing a special secretive wing for high-level Taliban and al-Qaeda detainees.
Ten years after the US invasion, Iraq is enmeshed in a cycle of human rights abuses, including attacks on civilians, torture and unfair trials, Amnesty International charges.
Reports that Obama bin Laden’s co-conspirator and brother-in-law Sulaiman Abu Ghaith was sheltered in Iran could lubricate the war drive—but how credible are they?
Defense lawyers for detainees held at Guantánamo Bay say that ongoing harsh conditions at the prison camp have resulted in a new hunger strike.
Military lawyers asserted that surveillance equipment deployed throughout the Guantánamo Bay detention center was not used to breach attorney-client privilege.
Ex-CIA agent John Kiriakou gets five years for blowing the cover of a fellow agent, and claims that he is a “whistleblower” on CIA torture—despite having justified the practice.
The Milan Court of Appeals convicted three US nationals for their roles in the CIA's 2003 "rendition" kidnapping of Egyptian cleric and terrorism suspect Abu Omar.
Gitmo detainee Abu Zubaydah asked the European Court of Human Rights to rule on whether Poland violated his rights by hositng a secret CIA prison where was tortured.
