The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a 17-year term was not enough for Jose Padilla, convicted on terrorism charges, ordering a new sentence. Padilla himself is suing the US, saying he was illegally detained for over three years on a military base.
Tunisia announced its intention to plead for the return of its remaining citizens being held at Guantánamo Bay. Rights groups say that the fall of the Ben Ali dictatorship means the detainees will no longer be at risk if they are transferred to Tunisia.
The US Court of Military Commission Review rule that Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al-Bahlul, media secretary of Osama bin Laden, was properly convicted of being a propagandist and should spend the rest of this life in prison.
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia affirmed the 2010 denial of habeas corpus for Guantánamo detainee Shawali Khan, an accused member of Gulbuddin Khan’s Hezb-Islami insurgent group in Afghanistan.
A New York judge dismissed a suit seeking to force an investigation of New York-licensed Guantánamo Bay psychologist Dr. John Leso for his development of “interrogation techniques” used at the prison camp.
Convicted Abu Ghraib torture ringleader Spc. Charles Graner was released early from Fort Leavenworth, as the Justice Department has opened an investigation into the apparent torture-death of an Abu Ghraib detainee at the hands of the CIA.
The hacker group Anonymous has called a boycott of PayPal over its refusal to facilitate donations to WikiLeaks. While we demand answers on WikiLeaks’ apparent collaboration with the Belarus dictatorship, the boycott may still have merit. What do you think?
The US is violating UN laws governing torture investigations by insisting on monitoring conversations with imprisoned army private Bradley Manning, UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Juan Mendez charges.
A judge for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia overturned the release of Yemeni Guantánamo Bay detainee Hussein Salem Mohammed Almerfedi, finding circumstantial evidence that he is part of al-Qaeda.
President Obama signed a four-year extension of the Patriot Act minutes before it was set to expire—following three days of filibustering by Sen. Rand Paul over concerns about gun rights and privacy.
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed a lower court’s decision that Yemeni Guantánamo Bay detainee Musa’ab Omar al-Madhwani is lawfully detained for being part of al-Qaeda.
Some international law experts are calling the Osama bin Laden killing an illegal “extrajudicial assassination”—as the White House equivocates on whether an effort was made to take bin Laden alive.
