A federal judge ordered the release of a Guantánamo detainee who had been accused of planning the 9-11 attacks. Mohamedou Ould Slahi, a Mauritanian, has been in US custody for over seven years.
The US Supreme Court declined to rule in the case known as Kiyemba II, in which the court was asked to consider issues surrounding the transfer of Guantánamo Bay detainees.
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and counterterrorism Martin Scheinin urged the Obama administration to hold civilian trials for accused 9-11 conspirators.
The White House is considering a recommendation that accused 9-11 co-conspirator Khalid Sheikh Mohammed be tried in a military court rather than the civilian justice system.
The Supreme Court ordered a lower court to reconsider the case of five Chinese Uighurs detained at Guantánamo now that each has received an offer of resettlement by another country.
The Federal Court of ruled that former Guantánamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib can sue the Australian government for complicity in his ill-treatment while incarcerated.
Authorities in Spain have moved to suspend investigating magistrate Baltasar Garzón—just as he has opened a probe of John “torture memo” Yoo and other Bush administration figures.
Four Guantánamo Bay detainees have been transferred to Albania and Spain, the US Department of Justice announced. There are still 188 remaining at the facility.
A judge ruled that the government can continue to hold indefinitely two Yemeni Guantánamo Bay detainees, even though the men had been cleared for release two years ago.
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, on whether the law prohibiting material support to terrorism violates the First Amendment.
Two human rights groups released documents confirming that planes associated with the CIA’s “extraordinary rendition” program landed in Poland on six occasions in 2003.
The White House is considering a law to allow the indefinite detention of terrorist suspects to break a logjam with Congress over closure of Guantánamo, said Sen. Lindsey Graham.
