Watching the Shadows
Harrowing Gitmo memoir published
Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian detained at Guantánamo since August 2002, has had portions of his handwritten prison-camp memoir published in Slate magazine.
Tag: Gitmo
Watching the Shadows
Obama addresses Gitmo hunger strike
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.
Watching the Shadows
Guards fire on Gitmo hunger-strikers
Military guards at Guantanámo Bay fired “non-lethal” rounds at hunger-striking detainees as a federal judge turned down a petition for emergency relief.
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UN rights chief calls for Gitmo prison closure
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.
Greater Middle East
Yemen: protesters press release of Gitmo detainees
Approximately 250 Yemeni demonstrators gathered in front of the US embassy in Sanna to demand the release of Yemeni detainees held at Guantánamo Bay.
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Gitmo detainee requests immediate relief
Human rights lawyers filed an emergency motion alleging that guards at Guantánamo Bay have denied drinking water and sufficient clothing to a Yemeni prisoner.
Iran
Did Iran shelter Sulaiman Abu Ghaith?
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?
Watching the Shadows
Gitmo: harsh conditions, hunger strike reported
Defense lawyers for detainees held at Guantánamo Bay say that ongoing harsh conditions at the prison camp have resulted in a new hunger strike.
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Navy lawyers: Gitmo bugs no breach of privilege
Military lawyers asserted that surveillance equipment deployed throughout the Guantánamo Bay detention center was not used to breach attorney-client privilege.
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Gitmo detainee seeks ECHR ruling on CIA prison
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.
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Prison evidence at issue in 9-11 trial
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.
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Conviction of al-Qaeda media director vacated
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.