The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of a suit brought by the ACLU against a Boeing subsidiary in connection with its alleged role in the CIA “extraordinary rendition” program.
In an egregious and all too revealing faux pas, Amy Goodman appears to have put a mouthpiece of the German far right on Democracy Now as a "former UN expert" to discuss Venezuela. This is one Alfred de Zayas, who is given Goodman's typical sycophantic treatment—all softballs, no adversarial questions. We are treated to the accurate enough if not at all surprising line about how the US is attempting a coup with the complicity of the corporate media. Far more interesting than what he says is de Zayas himself. Not noted by Goodman is that he is on the board of the Desiderius-Erasmus-Stiftung, a Berlin-based foundation established last year as the intellectual and policy arm of Alternative für Deutschland, the far-right party that has tapped anti-immigrant sentiment to win an alarming 94 seats in Germany's Bundestag. He has won a neo-Nazi following with his unseemly theories of Aliied "genocide" against Germans in World War II. (Image via Democracy Now)
Amnesty International called the Guantánamo Bay prison camp a "stain on human rights" on the eve of the facility's seventeenth anniversary. Guantánamo currently holds 40 detainees, many of whom were tortured by the CIA before being transferred to the facility. Some of the detainees have been cleared for transfer for years, but still remain at the facility. Some have been waiting for transfer as far back as 2010. Since its opening, the Guantánamo facility has housed around 800 prisoners, many without formal charges or due process. (Photo via Jurist)
The US Treasury and the UN announced sanctions against a supposed al-Qaeda leader who also is Osama bin Laden’s son-in-law for serving as a top financial official in the terror organization.
US military judge Col. Patrick Parrish rejected claims by Canadian Guantánamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr that his confession was a product of torture, allowing his trial to continue.
The controversial military trial of Canadian Guantánamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr was suspended following the collapse of his lawyer during opening testimony. The trial has been criticized by the UN.
Sudanese Guantánamo Bay detainee Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al-Qosi reached a plea agreement with the US government setting out the maximum sentence he can receive at his military tribunal.
The CIA transferred several high-profile prisoners to Guantánamo in 2003, only to transfer them back to the agency’s secret prison network so they would not be entitled to access to US courts, AP reports.
The ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights are challenging the government’s Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT) program, under which Anwar al-Awlaqi has been targeted for death.
A federal judge in Washington DC granted the habeas corpus petition of Yemeni citizen Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif and ordered his immediate release from the Guantánamo Bay facility.
US senators are demanding that BP face a criminal investigation into its possible role in freeing convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi as a kickback for a Libyan oil deal.
The US Supreme Court declined to review a decision allowing the transfer of Gitmo detainee Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed to Algeria, despite his fears of torture at the hands of the authorities.
