Guantanamo Bay Cases

Guantanamo Bay Cases

Follow cases in Guantanamo Bay and discuss how the military is using a culture of fear and ambiguity to hold prisoners with dramatically reduced prisoner rights.

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The U.S. attorney general says reviews are under way to decide which Guantanamo Bay detainees could face trial in American courts or special military tribunals. Eric Holder said Sunday the decisions on some detainees could come as soon as next week. The Senate last Thursday backed a plan that allows prosecution of suspects — including those accused in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks — in either federal courts or by a military commission. Holder also told reporters in Qatar's capital Doha that the Obama administration is working to meet its deadline to close the Guantanamo detention facility by January. Holder is in Doha attending ... Read Full Story
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The US Senate voted Thursday to defeat a measure that would have blocked five Guantanamo Bay detainees accused of plotting the September 11, 2001 attacks from getting trials in federal courts. Lawmakers voted 54-45 to effectively kill Republican Senator Lindsey Graham's proposal, an amendment to a 2010 spending bill for the US Departments of Commerce, State and Science. Graham, backed by fellow Republican Senator John McCain, Democratic Senator Jim Webb, and Independent Senator Joe Lieberman, had sought to forbid funding to try the suspected terrorists in federal courts. Attorney General Eric Holder and Defense Secretary Robert Gates had opposed Graham's measure as tying their ... Read Full Story
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Guantanamo Bay was used as a "recruiting tool" for terrorism more than anything else, US homeland security chief Janet Napolitano said Friday, during a visit to the European parliament. "Guantanamo has been used more as a recruiting tool than anything else," she told members of the European parliament's civil liberties committee in Brussels. Therefore "it needs to be closed and the individuals dealt with appropriately," she added. Napolitano stressed President Barack Obama's commitment to close down the Guantanamo Bay camp in Cuba in January. "The president's executive order that it be closed remains in effect... we are working through individual by individual," she said. ... Read Full Story
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Six former Guantanamo Bay detainees brought to Palau for resettlement have received a warm official welcome, but a plan to deport Bangladeshi workers could halve this Pacific Island nation's already-tiny Muslim community, making integration harder. The ex-detainees, who are Muslim ethnic Uighurs from a region in China's far west, already face tough challenges to adapt to their new lives in Palau after eight years in the U.S. military camp in Cuba, although they will be provided housing, job training and a full-time interpreter. President Johnson Toribiong himself welcomed the group when they arrived before dawn Sunday on a secret flight, and he will treat ... Read Full Story
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration has decided to transfer overseas a Kuwaiti held at the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and will not appeal a court decision freeing him, the Justice Department said on Monday. In September, a U.S. district judge ordered the release of Fouad al Rabiah, a Kuwaiti Airways engineer, and harshly criticized the U.S. government for using coerced confessions to justify detaining him indefinitely. Held at Guantanamo for almost eight years, al Rabiah was accused of providing money to al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden during a trip to Afghanistan in July 2001 and of helping Taliban fighters ... Read Full Story
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[JURIST] A letter [text, PDF] from a Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainee, made public Monday, alleges that conditions at the prison have worsened for detainees a year after the election of US President Barack Obama [official website]. Abdul Rahman Shalabi wrote the letter [Al Jazeera report] in September, describing his declining physical condition. Last week, independent medical  
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GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA - The saying that many hands make light work has been around for years, and the Marines of the Logistics Combat Element attached to the first ever Security Cooperation Marine Air-Ground Task Force are putting the wisdom of this ...  
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military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and will not appeal a court decision freeing him, the Justice Department said on Monday. Palau resettlement 'major step' toward closing Gitmo: US AFP - Mon Nov 2, 3:52 PM ET WASHINGTON (AFP) - The Obama ...  
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FILES) Demonstrators protest the detention of Uighurs at the Naval Base in Guantanamo, Cuba on February 12, 2009 in Washington, DC, near the Lincoln Memorial. The Supreme Court Tuesday agreed to hear a plea from Uighur inmates in Guantanamo Bay ...  
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[JURIST] US officials are conducting reviews to determine which Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees may face trials in military or civilian courts in the United States, according to statements [AP report] made by Attorney General Eric Holder [official profile] to reporters Sunday. Holder also said a decision on whether to hold such proceedings may come as early as November 16. The  
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The U.S. attorney general says reviews are under way to decide which Guantanamo Bay detainees could face trial in American courts or special military tribunals.Eric Holder said Sunday the decisions on some detainees could come as soon as next week.The Senate last Thursday backed a plan that allows prosecution of suspects - including those accused in the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks - in either federal courts or by a military commission.  
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Boston GlobeUnited States Transfers Six Uighur Detainees from Guantanamo Bay to PalauReutersThese transfers were carried out under an arrangement between the United States and the Republic of Palau. The United States has coordinated with the ...Uighurs Leave Guantánamo for PalauNew York TimesJustice Department: Six Guantanamo detainees arrive in PalauCNNSix Guantanamo Uighurs arrive in Palau: USAFPall 429 news articles »  
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