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.
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.”
