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.”
US military judge Colonel Patrick Parrish ruled April 7 that Pentagon officials lacked the authority to dismiss Lieutenant Commander William Kuebler as defense counsel for Canadian Guantánamo Bay detainee Omar Khadr. Chief defense counsel Colonel Peter Masciola reassigned Kuebler earlier… Read moreGitmo defendant Omar Khadr’s lawyer reinstated by military judge
A US appeals court ruled that courts cannot prevent the government from transferring Guantánamo detainees to foreign countries on the grounds that they may face prosecution or torture.
Medical professionals violated codes of medical ethics by participating in and assisting in ill-treatment of Guantánamo Bay detainees, says a report by the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The US Navy reassigned William Kuebler, a military lawyer defending Guantánamo detainee Omar Khadr, after he filed a complaint against an official overseeing the case.
French President Nicholas Sarkozy said his country will accept one Guantánamo Bay detainee in a symbolic effort to aid the closure of the detention center.
