President Obam announced that he is reinstating the controversial military commission system to try some Guantánamo Bay detainees—with changes to increase defendants’ rights.
US officials said that Algerian Guantánamo Bay detainee Lakhdar Boumediene, whose habeas corpus case went to the Supreme Court, has been released and sent to France.
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay urged the US to hold accountable those accused of committing torture under the Bush administration.
Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi said that the CIA misled Congress about the use of so-called enhanced interrogation techniques during the Bush administration.
President Barack Obama has decided to seek a delay of the release of photographs depicting abusive treatment of detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, reversing an earlier decision.
US Nuremberg trials prosecutor Henry King Jr. died Saturday from cancer at the age of 89. He was an outspoken critic of US practices at Guantánamo Bay and the Military Commissions Act.
The Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs confirmed the government’s intent to appeal a court ruling directing Ottawa to push for the repatriation of Canadian Gitmo detainee Omar Khadr.
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Attorney General Eric Holder hailed the guilty plea of former “enemy combatant” Ali Saleh Kahlah al-Marri as evidence that “our criminal justice system can and will hold…terrorists accountable.”
Lawyers for two Guantánamo Bay detainees captured as juveniles called for their release—the same day the UN Security Council held an open meeting on children in armed conflict.
Spanish judge Baltazar Garzón announced he will initiate an investigation into torture allegations at Guantánamo Bay made by four former prisoners held at the facility.
President Obama reaffirmed his position that the controversial interrogation technique known as waterboarding amounts to torture and defended his decision to ban use of the technique.
