The Obama Justice Department weighed in for the first time on the case of Canadian citizen and “rendition” victim Maher Arar, calling for the Supreme Court not to hear his appeal.
Kenya’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that Nairobi is attempting to secure the release of Kenyan native Mohammed Abdumalik, who is currently detained at Guantánamo Bay.
In a sign that the administration is preparing a return to military tribunals at Guantánamo, the Pentagon installed a retired admiral with international law experience to run the war court.
A federal judge in the District of Columbia denied a Yemeni Guantánamo Bay detainee’s habeas corpus petition, allowing his indefinite detention.
The US Justice Department announced that three Guantánamo Bay detainees had been transferred to the country of Georgia, leaving 183 detainees remaining at the military prison.
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 GarzĂłn—just as he has opened a probe of John “torture memo” Yoo and other Bush administration figures.
