Obama’s new declassification order sets new standards for treatment of “national security” information and establishes a “National Declassification Center” to oversee the backlog.
The military prison at Guantánamo Bay may have to remain open until 2011 to allow an Illinois prison time to prepare for the arrival of the detainees, reports indicate.
A federal judge in Washington DC granted Yemeni Guantánamo Bay detainee Saeed Hatim’s petition for habeas corpus, ordering his release.
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia denied Yemeni Guantánamo Bay detainee Musa’ab Al-Madhwani’s petition for habeas corpus.
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.
