The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) called on US President Barack Obama early on the morning after his re-election to shut down the Guantánamo Bay military prison.
Guantánamo Bay detainee Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, accused in the USS Cole bombing, boycotted his pretrial hearing in a military tribunal at the facility.
The High Court of England and Wales approved extradition of five terror suspects to the US, after the European Court of Human Rights dismissed a challenge to the extradition.
Canadian citizen Omar Khadr was transferred to Canada from Guantánamo Bay to serve out the rest of his prison sentence under the authority of the Correctional Service of Canada.
An Italian court upheld the convictions of 23 former CIA officers for the 2003 kidnapping and rendition of Egyptian terror suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr.
Yemeni Guantánamo Bay detainee Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif died over the weekend at a hospital on the US Navy base after guards found him unconscious in his cell.
US Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Justice Department will close its investigation into the CIA’s alleged torture and abuse of detainees, with no criminal charges.
The US Department of Defense announced new terrorism charges against a Saudi Guantánamo Bay prisoner accused of plotting with al-Qaeda to blow up oil tankers.
The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit upheld the life sentence imposed on a former Osama bin Laden aide after he stabbed a prison guard in the eye in 2000.
Amnesty International USA's executive director Suzanne Nossel is a State Department veteran who is leading the human rights group into an accommodation with US imperialism.
A military judge at Fort Meade ordered the prosecution in the case against Pfc. Bradley Manning to submit a number of files that were allegedly withheld from the defense during discovery.
A federal judge strikes down provisions of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act in a legal challenge by Chris Hedges. But does the ruling protect journalists, while legitimizing indefinite detention of “advocates of violence”?
