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.
The US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit rejected a lawsuit by four British ex-Guantánamo detainees against former US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other officials.
A federal judge in Washington DC adopted a new standard for authorizing and reviewing the detention of terrorism suspects at Guantánamo Bay proffered by the Justice Department last month.
President Obama said he would not rule out the possibility of prosecuting lawyers responsible for authoring memos released last week outlining CIA interrogation policies.
President Obama, making his first trip to CIA headquarters, said that agency officials had expressed “understandable anxiety and concern” about his release of memos detailing torture.
Human rights and civil liberties groups protested Barack Obama’s announced decision not to investigate individuals who used or authorized “enhanced interrogation techniques” under the Bush administration.
Guantánamo Bay detainee Mohammad El Gharani alleges that he has been recently abused by guards at the military prison, according to a report by AlJazeera.
The Obama administration will appeal a ruling by the DC district court that allowed detainees being held by the US in Afghanistan to proceed with habeas corpus challenges to their detention.
The CIA announced that the agency will no longer use secret overseas prisons to hold terrorism suspects—but the Obama administration has not officially abandoned the practice of “rendition.”
