Defense lawyers for the five accused 9-11 conspirators petitioned a US military judge at Guantánamo Bay to preserve the prisons where the defendants were held as evidence.
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit vacated the conspiracy conviction of Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al-Bahlul, former media secretary of Osama bin Laden.
Prisoners in Afghan-run detention facilities are still being beaten and tortured, according to an annual report by the UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that lawyers for a detainee at Guantánamo Bay may not review “top secret” materials related to the case.
A Somali-American accused of planning a Christmas bomb attack in Oregon appears to be the latest victim of an FBI-generated bogus "terrorism" plot.
A military contractor that was accused in a lawsuit by former detainees of the Abu Ghraib prison of conspiring to torture paid $5.28 million to ex-detainees.
Obama signed the 2013 National Defense Authorization Act into law—with measures prohibiting use of funds to transfer individuals detained at Guantánamo.
The European Court of Human Rights ruled that Macedonia is responsible for the torture and degrading maltreatment of Khaled el-Masri, found to be a victim of CIA “rendition.”
The US answered to allegations that it has illegally detained juveniles in a prison in Afghanistan in a recent report given to the UN Committee on Rights of the Child.
Civil and human rights groups are protesting Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s proposed amendment to the 2013 NDAA, saying it paradoxically loans legal cover to indefinite detention.
President Karzai said US forces are capturing and holding Afghans in violation of a detainee transfer pact and, that US forces should turn over that responsibility to Karzai’s forces.
