John McCain introduced legislation to prohibit funding for civilian trials of Guantánamo Bay detainees and place restrictions on the transfer of detainees to foreign countries.
US President Barack Obama issued an executive order allowing military commissions for Guantánamo Bay detainees to resume for the first time since he took office.
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A US military tribunal sentenced Sudanese Guantánamo Bay detainee Noor Uthman Mohammed to 14 years in prison following a plea agreement in which he admitted to aiding al-Qaeda.
A federal judge in Washington DC denied a petition for writ of habeas corpus of a Yemeni man, Mashour Abdullah Muqbel Alsabri, currently detained at Guantánamo Bay.
US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said at a congressional hearing that the Guantánamo Bay prison camp is unlikely to be closed any time soon because of security concerns.
Sudanese Guantánamo Bay detainee Noor Uthman Mohammed pleaded guilty before a military tribunal to charges of collaborating with al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.
The Pentagon has reduced the sentence of Ibrahim al-Qosi, the accused former al-Qaeda cook who pleaded guilty before a military tribunal, under terms of a secret plea deal.
The City Council of Berkeley, Calif., is to vote this week on a resolution to invite Guantánamo Bay detainees who have been cleared of wrongdoing to resettle in the town.
The Center for Constitutional Rights said the death of a Guantánamo Bay detainee highlights problems of the Obama administration’s policy of permanent detention.
The US is conducting a manhunt for a previously unknown cell believed to be involved in the planning of the 9-11 attacks, according to a US cable released by WikiLeaks.
An Italian court convicted former Guantánamo Bay detainee Mohamed Ben Riadh Nasri on terror charges and sentenced the Tunisian man to six years in prison.
