A federal judge in the District of Columbia found the US Department of Defense in contempt for failing to videotape the testimony of Yemeni Guantánamo Bay detainee Mohammed Al-Adahi.
The US has transfered four detainees from Guantánamo Bay to three European countries: Italy, France and Hungary. Two of the former detainees will stand trial in Italy.
The US Supreme Court vacated a Second Circuit decision that required the Pentagon to release photos of abused detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The UK’s High Court ruled that documents on the possible torture of ex-Guantánamo Bay detainee Binyam Mohamed at the hands of the CIA in Pakistan in 2002 must be released.
A panel of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in New York City has affirmed the conviction of civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart, and ordered her to begin her prison sentence.
Illinois politicians are divided on an Obama administration plan to move Guantánamo Bay detainees to the state’s Thomson Correctional Facility.
US Attorney General Eric Holder announced federal trials for five 9-11 suspects—while implying that other Gitmo detainees will face military commissions.
The ACLU has filed suit on behalf of US citizen Amir Mesha, alleging that FBI agents were involved in his interrogation and rendition in Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia in 2007.
Four Uighurs being held at Guantánamo Bay are challenging their pending transfer on grounds that they will be denied the right to sue in the federal courts once outside the US.
The conspiro-sphere is abuzz with the revelation that the presumed gunman in the Fort Hood shootings worshipped at the same Virginia mosque as two 9-11 hijackers—and other anomalies.
A court in Milan convicted 23 ex-CIA agents in absentia for the 2003 “rendition” of Egyptian terror suspect Abu Omar. Local CIA station chief Robert Seldon Lady was sentenced to eight years.
The federal government has agreed to pay $1.2 million to settle the cases of five Muslim immigrants were among hundreds detained without charge for months after 9-11.
