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Wednesday, August 27th, 2008By Richard Tyler | A London court has ruled that the British government must disclose information that could support the claim that torture was used to extract confessions from Binyam Mohamed, a former British resident who has been held in Guantánamo Bay since September 2004. The ruling by the Judicial Review—a special court that considers the lawfulness of a decision or action made by a public body—is a rebuff to ...
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UK court rules against gov’t in key Guantanamo case
Friday, August 22nd, 2008Reuters - A British court ruled on Thursday that the government must disclose evidence to a defendant being held at Guantanamo Bay, a decision that carried with it implicit criticism of U.S. government detention policies. In its ruling, the High Court said Britain's Foreign Office must provide Binyam Mohamed, a British resident detained in Pakistan in 2002 and now held at Guantanamo, with information relating to his time in detention. His lawyers ...
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Guantanamo general calls 2nd general ‘bullying’
Thursday, August 14th, 2008By Carol Rosenberg | GUANTANAMO BAY NAY BASE, Cuba — One general testified about another general at the war court Wednesday, describing a Pentagon official fast-tracking trials here as "abusive, bullying, unprofessional.'' Moreover, in testimony, Army Brig. Gen. Gregory Zanetti, deputy prison camps commander, described the approach employed earlier this year by his counterpart, Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, this way: "Spray and pray. Charge everybody. ...
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Coincidence? Guantanamo term ends as Bush’s does
Monday, August 11th, 2008GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - It was no coincidence the U.S. military jurors at Guantanamo timed the prison sentence they gave Osama bin Laden's driver to end just before President Bush's term does, legal analysts say. The timing seems intended to give the next U.S. president who takes office on Jan. 20 a chance to override the Bush administration's announcement that it will continue to hold convicted Yemeni ...
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Bin Laden Firm to Build Saudi Arabian Prisons to Replace Guantanamo Bay
Friday, August 8th, 2008Saudi Arabia prisons to replace Guantanamo bay Pakistan Daily Saudi Arabia is to build five modern prisons in the kingdom to replace US Guantanamo detention facility, a new report has revealed. Jordanian daily quoted unnamed sources as saying that US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and Saudi officials are cooperating to construct the prisons which are to replace Guantanamo and US secret prisons in Europe. Riyadh is to spent about two ...
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Guantanamo detainee petitions rights panel over torture
Friday, August 8th, 2008A Guantanamo detainee on Wednesday urged a human rights panel that investigates abuse cases in the Americas to review his accusations that he was tortured in the US "war on terror" prison. Djamel Ameziane, an Algerian who has been held at the US naval base in Cuba for six years as an "enemy combatant" without charge, became the first Guantanamo detainee to file a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human ...
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Gitmo Detainees Subject to Detention Even If Acquitted: Pentagon
Wednesday, August 6th, 2008Some detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba will likely never be released because of the danger they pose, and those tried and acquitted will still be subject to continued detention as enemy combatants, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday. Geoff Morrell, the Pentagon press secretary, made the remarks as Salim Hamdan, a Yemeni, awaited a verdict in the first war crimes trial to be held under a special regime created for "war on ...
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U.S. May Have Taped Visits to Detainees
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008The Bush administration informed all foreign intelligence and law enforcement teams visiting their citizens held at Guantanamo Bay that video and sound from their interrogation sessions would be recorded, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post. The policy suggests that the United States could possess hundreds or thousands of hours of secret taped conversations between detainees and representatives from nearly three dozen countries. Numerous State Department cables to foreign government ...
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Guantanamo dangles new incentive for detainees
Monday, August 4th, 2008GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA — In hopes of encouraging better behavior among terrorism suspects in a maximum-security facility here, parts of it will be gradually transformed to let some of the men eat, visit and exercise together. The planned easing of conditions in some cell blocks of Camp 6 is part of an effort to provide more "intellectual stimulation" for the prisoners, said Rear Adm. Dave Thomas, who two months ago took ...
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US holds secret session of Gitmo war crimes court
Saturday, August 2nd, 2008The U.S. military has removed journalists from a Guantanamo courtroom for a secret session of the war crimes tribunal. It is the first time the U.S. has held a closed session at the tribunals created to prosecute alleged terrorists at the base in Cuba. Observers without security clearance were told to leave Thursday while a defense witness testified in the trial of former Osama bin Laden driver Salim Hamdan. The defendant stayed in ...
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Judge Bars Evidence Against Terrorism Suspect at Guantanamo Trial
Tuesday, 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 ...
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Guantánamo children
Saturday, 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 ...
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Judge rejects attempt to block Guantanamo trial
Saturday, 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 ...
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Video of Interrogation of Gitmo Teen Released
Wednesday, 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 ...
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U.S. treatment of Khadr may have exceeded military’s own guidelines
Sunday, 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 ...
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