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DoD announces transfer of Gitmo detainees
The US Department of Defense announced the transfer of five detainees from Guantánamo Bay to Slovakia and Goergia, leaving 143 prisoners at the facility.
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Judge orders release of Gitmo force-feeding videos
A US federal judge ordered the public release of 28 videos showing the forced feeding of Guantánamo Bay detainee Wa'el Dhiab.
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Ex-Gitmo detainee appeals conviction
Australian citizen and former Guantánamo detainee David Hicks filed a motion to dismiss his conviction before the US Court of Military Commission Review.
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Guantánamo nurse refuses to force-feed detainees
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.
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Convictions of ex-Qaeda media director overturned
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.
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Gitmo detainees file motion for religious freedom
Lawyers for Guantánamo detainees seek a restraining order barring the government from depriving inmates of the right to pray communally during the month of Ramadan.
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Appeals court dismisses Gitmo detainee lawsuit
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia dismissed a torture lawsuit brought by an ex-Guantánamo detainee against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
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DoD approves war crimes trial for Qaeda leader
The US Department of Defense approved the war crimes trial of Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, a leader of al-Qaeda's armed forces in Afghanistan between 2002 and 2004.
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Judge orders halt to force-feeding at Gitmo
The US District Court for the District of Columbia ordered officials at Guantánamo Bay to temporarily suspend forced feedings of a detainee at the facility.
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Human Rights Watch: ban killer robots
Human Rights Watch finds use of fully autonomous weapons to be an affront to basic human rights that should be preemptively banned by international convention.
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Benghazigate and Internet freedom
The provocateur video that supposedly incited the Benghazi attack is at the center of a persistent news story—but we can't see it, because the Ninth Circuit ordered it suppressed.
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Panel calls for transfer of Yemeni Gitmo prisoner
The Defense Department's Periodic Review Secretariat recommended the release of Ali Ahmad Mohamed al-Razihi, a Yemeni prisoner currently held at Guantánamo Bay.