The US Supreme Court declined to hear a lawsuit by four UK citizens and former Guantánamo Bay detainees against former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other US officials.
The Obama administration asked the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to dismiss a lawsuit accusing former Bush administration attorney John Yoo of authorizing the torture of terrorism suspects.
The US Department of Justice announced Dec. 9 that Kuwaiti Guantánamo Bay detainee Fouad al-Rabiah has been transferred to the control of the Kuwaiti government. Al-Rabiah, a Kuwaiti national, had been held at Guantánamo Bay for nearly eight years under… Read moreGtimo detainee transferred to Kuwait
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.
