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Guantanamo« Previous EntriesJudge Bars Evidence Against Terrorism Suspect at Guantanamo TrialTuesday, July 22nd, 2008By Carol J. Williams | A military judge says some statements by Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a driver for Osama bin Laden, were made in 'highly coercive' settings. It could set a standard for other cases. WASHINGTON -- The military judge overseeing the first war crimes trial against a terrorism suspect at Guantanamo Bay agreed Monday to bar some evidence against Osama bin Laden's former driver because it was obtained ... tagged GuantanamoGuantánamo childrenSaturday, July 19th, 2008The Guardian | In a submission to the UN in May, the Pentagon said that no more than eight youths, aged 13 to 17 at time of capture, were held at Guantánamo Bay. But a prisoner list released in 2006 in response to US freedom of information act litigation names 21 inmates under 18 when they arrived. A separate defence department admission brings the total to ... tagged GuantanamoJudge rejects attempt to block Guantanamo trialSaturday, July 19th, 2008A U.S. military judge has rejected another attempt to halt the first Guantanamo war crimes trial. The Navy judge's ruling comes as a civilian judge in Washington considers a separate bid to stop the trial of Salim Hamdan. Hamdan is a former driver for Osama bin Laden. He is charged with supporting terrorism and could get life in prison if convicted. The ruling Thursday concerns the Constitution's equal-protection clause. Hamdan's lawyers argued the ... tagged GuantanamoVideo of Interrogation of Gitmo Teen ReleasedWednesday, July 16th, 2008By IAN AUSTEN | OTTAWA — The video is blurry and the soundtrack muffled, but the technical shortcomings of the video recordings released Tuesday did not obscure the emotions of Omar Khadr as he was interrogated at the Guantánamo Bay detention center in Cuba. Mr. Khadr, just 16 years old at the time of the ... tagged Guantanamo and TortureU.S. treatment of Khadr may have exceeded military’s own guidelinesSunday, July 13th, 2008By OMAR EL AKKAD | In subjecting Omar Khadr to the so-called "frequent flier program" - a sleep deprivation technique that has since been prohibited - the U.S. military may have exceeded even its own guidelines on the controversial practice. Department of Foreign Affairs documents made public this week show that the U.S. military intentionally deprived Mr. Khadr of sleep in order to "make him more amenable ... tagged Guantanamo and USA-News9/11 defendant argues to see classified evidenceFriday, July 11th, 2008By Carol Rosenberg | An alleged al Qaida fighter accused of training the Sept. 11 hijackers sought access to classified evidence Thursday, reassuring the war court here that, once convicted, he'll take U.S. secrets to his grave. ''If I am going to receive the death sentence, this evidence will go with me,'' declared Waleed bin Attash, a one-legged Yemeni captive accused of running an al Qaida camp in Afghanistan. After ... tagged Guantanamo and USA-News9/11 suspect to defend self at Guantanamo trialThursday, July 10th, 2008AP News | A Guantanamo prisoner accused in the Sept. 11 attacks complained Wednesday that his confinement and obstructions by the U.S. military are complicating his court-approved effort to serve as his own lawyer. Ali Abd al-Aziz Ali, one of five men charged in the attacks, said the military did not deliver two letters and a law motion that he wrote to the judge ahead of the pretrial hearing. The ... tagged GuantanamoUS war crimes court to resume at GuantanamoWednesday, July 9th, 2008AP | U.S. military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay resume this week even as new legal challenges could throw the system into further turmoil. Five men charged in the Sept. 11 attacks, including alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, are to appear Wednesday and Thursday for pretrial hearings in the Bush administration's special tribunal for terrorism suspects. Their trials have not yet been scheduled. The suspects could get the death penalty if convicted of ... tagged Guantanamo and USA-NewsJudge to Bush admin.: Guantanamo is top priorityWednesday, July 9th, 2008AP News | A federal judge overseeing Guantanamo Bay lawsuits ordered the Justice Department to put other cases aside and make it clear throughout the Bush administration that, after nearly seven years of detention, the detainees must have their day in court. "The time has come to move these forward," Judge Thomas F. Hogan said Tuesday during the first hearing over whether the detainees are being held lawfully. "Set aside every ... tagged Guantanamo and USA-NewsGuantanamo Bay may be turned into marine ‘rapid reaction’ baseTuesday, July 8th, 2008By Damien McElroy in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba | The United States is considering transforming the Guantanamo Bay terrorism prison into a base for a Marines "rapid reaction force" to deal with threats in Central America. In the first official admission that closure of the camp had entered the planning stage, the base commander, Captain Mark Leary, said regional US Marines commanders have surveyed the site to assess its suitability. "The ... tagged GuantanamoChina Inspired Interrogations at GuantánamoThursday, July 3rd, 2008By SCOTT SHANE | The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive management techniques” for possible use on prisoners, including “sleep deprivation,” “prolonged constraint,” and “exposure.” What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese ... tagged Guantanamo and TortureUN official says Gitmo trials unfairThursday, July 3rd, 2008AP | U.S. prosecution of terror suspects at its Guantanamo Bay detention facility fall short of international standards for fair trials, a U.N. rights official said Monday. U.N. envoy Philip Alston said the tribunals are flawed because of detainees' limited access to defense attorneys at the remote U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba, as well as rules that allow hearsay and coerced evidence to be presented in court. "It would violate international ... tagged GuantanamoGuantanamo’s days numbered, tough choices aheadSunday, June 29th, 2008ANDREW O. SELSKY | This was a sleepy Navy outpost before the U.S. began using it to hold prisoners in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks — and it may soon become one again. It is increasingly obvious that the days of this U.S. offshore prison are numbered. The Bush administration's main rationale for holding terrorism suspects without trial vanished when the Supreme Court ruled on June 12 ... tagged GuantanamoGuantanamo detainees made to feel like ‘nomads’Saturday, June 28th, 2008Detainees at Guantanamo Bay are turned into "nomads" to keep them agitated and to punish those who break rules, a Sudanese journalist recently released from the U.S. military prison said Friday. Sami al-Haj said moving detainees between camps and from cell to cell appeared to be part of an official policy to destabilize them. "They were made into nomads," the Al-Jazeera journalist said. Frequent cell transfers at the prison became an issue ... tagged GuantanamoGitmo Detainee’s Lawyer ‘Not Allowed To Tell Him’ He’s No Longer An ‘Enemy Combatant’Friday, June 27th, 2008Think Progress | Nearly two weeks after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that detainees held at Guantánamo Bay have the right to habeas corpus and can thus challenge their detention in civilian courts, a U.S. Court of Appeals dealt another blow to the Bush administration’s detention policy. The appeals court ruled that the Pentagon improperly designated Huzaifa Parhat, an ethnic Uighur Chinese national, an “enemy combatant” after ... tagged Guantanamo and USA-News« Previous Entries |
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