The US sentenced Egyptian-born cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri to life in prison for supporting terrorism. The European Court of Human Rights had earlier barred his extradition.
The convening authority for the Office of Military Commissions overturned the conviction of ex-Gitmo detainee Noor Uthman Muhammed, who has been repatriated to Sudan.
The Defense Department announced that five prisoners at Guantánamo Bay will be released to Kazakhstan, bringing the number of detainees remaining at the facility to 127.
The US Department of Defense repatriated four Guantánamo Bay detainees to Afghanistan, despite restrictions on detainee transfers in the new defense spending bill.
While many in the US seemed shocked by the Senate's torture report, some US media wrote honestly about the "direct line" from torture in Latin America to the post-9-11 version.
"Enhanced interrogation techniques" employed during the Bush administration were "ineffective," finds a long-awaited report by the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
The US Department of Defense released six Guantánamo Bay detainees to Uruguay—days after a UN report criticized the US for non-compliance with the Convention Against Torture.
The US Department of Defense announced the transfer of five detainees from Guantánamo Bay to Slovakia and Goergia, leaving 143 prisoners at the facility.
A US federal judge ordered the public release of 28 videos showing the forced feeding of Guantánamo Bay detainee Wa'el Dhiab.
Australian citizen and former Guantánamo detainee David Hicks filed a motion to dismiss his conviction before the US Court of Military Commission Review.
A nurse at the Guantánamo detention center has refused to participate in the force-feeding of hunger-striking inmates, UK-based human rights group Reprieve reports.
A US appeals court overturned two out of three convictions of al-Qaeda media secretary Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al-Bahlul, finding he was improperly tried by a military tribunal.
