The ABA’s policymaking house of Delegates voted overwhelmingly at the midyear meeting to endorse rights of due process for detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
A landmark civilian criminal court indictment of an accused “enemy combatant” who has been held without trial for years by the U.S. military was approved yesterday by a federal grand…
A Pentagon report concludes that the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay meets the requirements of the Geneva Conventions, but conditions could be improved by allowing more social interaction and…
The Pentagon official overseeing the courts at Guantanamo has avoided a confrontation with the Obama administration by dismissing the case of a Guantanamo detainee accused of planning the deadly attack…
Two British High Court judges say they have refused to release evidence of alleged torture because of a U.S. threat to stop sharing intelligence evidence with the country.
President Barack Obama signed executive orders today closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay within a year and ending harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects.
In his one of his first acts in office yesterday, President Barack Obama instructed prosecutors to seek 120-day delays in all cases now before U.S. military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay…
The outgoing director of the CIA says Barack Obama has indicated he won’t pursue a legal probe into the agency’s use of waterboarding and other harsh interrogation practices.
A military prosecutor who quit his post at Guantanamo because of ethical qualms tells of his transformation from gung ho terrorism fighter, brushing off tales of detainee abuse as “hyperbole,”…