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”?
While mainstream accounts emphasize the defendants’ refusal to respect the court, the ACLU points out that the Gitmo tribunal for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his co-defendants falls short of international standards for justice.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals granted qualified immunity to former Bush administration official John Yoo in a suit over his controversial memos asserting the legality of “enhanced interrogation techniques.”
In the first transfers from Guantánamo Bay this year, the Pentagon announced that two Uighur detainees will be released to El Salvador—over the protests of China. With these transfers, 169 detainees will remain at the facility.
In a move protested by rights groups, the US Department of Defense referred charges to a military commission against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other alleged 9-11 conspirators being held at Guantánamo Bay.
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) agreed to hear the case of Guantánamo Bay detainee and Algerian national Djamel Ameziane, who has been held at the facility for more than 10 years.
The former head of the Polish intelligence services, Zbigniew Siemiatkowski, may face charges for his assistance to the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in operating a secret prison where torture reportedly occurred.
