A military judge has found that Afghan police tortured a youth later transferred to Guantanamo Bay, and the confession he gave as a result cannot be used at his trial.
Lawyers representing Sept. 11 suspect Ramzi Binalshibh have won permission to inspect a secret detention center at Guantanamo Bay where he is being held.
A federal judge’s definition of the term “enemy combatant” matches that used by the Pentagon in 2004 and more than 550 tribunals that reviewed the status of detainees at Guantanamo…
A military lawyer appointed to defend an unwilling client in a terrorism trial before a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has joined his client in refusing to participate in…
Two top employees in the unit of the Mexican attorney general’s office charged with fighting organized crime have instead been passing information to the Beltran-Leyva drug trafficking cartel about federal…
The Pentagon official who oversees the war crimes tribunals at Guantanamo Bay is facing two investigations into allegations he bullied prosecutors and retaliated against at least two military officials.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy has subpoenaed Attorney General Michael Mukasey to testify and provide Justice Department memos on terrorism legal advice.
Charges have been dropped against five terrorism suspects at Guantanamo with links to Abu Zubaydah, an al-Qaida recruiter who was subjected to waterboarding during interrogations.
Updated: Joseph Margulies, a challenger of both the Clinton and Bush administrations’ detention policies, is wary of John McCain’s and Barack Obama’s harmonious promises to close the prison at Guantanamo…
The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia has halted the release of 17 Chinese Muslims from the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
Joseph Margulies will talk about his role in coordinating the litigation challenging the Bush administration’s post-9/11 detention policy at 5 p.m. CT on Tuesday, Oct. 21, at the ABA’s headquarters…
A Justice Department court filing describing 17 Guantanamo detainees as “a danger to the public” has reportedly stalled State Department efforts to find a country willing to accept the men.
A Guantanamo military prosecutor who cited “ethical qualms” before he quit had wrestled with the decision, telling an online priest about his misgivings.
The Bush administration issued secret memos in 2003 and 2004 telling CIA officials that it approved waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques for al-Qaida suspects.