{"id":154336,"date":"2015-05-25T15:51:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-25T15:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=154336"},"modified":"2015-05-25T15:51:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-25T15:51:27","slug":"incommunicado-forever-gitmo-detainees-case-stalled-2477-days-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/war-terrorism\/incommunicado-forever-gitmo-detainees-case-stalled-2477-days-counting\/","title":{"rendered":"&quot;Incommunicado&quot; Forever: Gitmo Detainee&#8217;s Case Stalled for 2,477 Days and Counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span class=\"wf_caption\" style=\"display: inherit; max-width: 635px;\">Since being seized in a raid in Pakistan in 2002, Abu Zubaydah has had his life controlled by American officials, first at secret sites, where he was tortured, and since 2006 in a small cell in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. And, thanks to one of the strangest, and perhaps most troubling, legal cases to grow out of the War on Terror, it appears he\u2019s not going to be leaving anytime soon\u2013which was exactly the plan the CIA always wanted. Not even his lawyers understand what\u2019s transpired behind closed doors in a Washington, D.C., courtroom.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In June of 2008, the Supreme Court ruled that detainees at Guantanamo had the right to challenge their imprisonment in federal court and that their cases should be handled \u201cpromptly\u2019\u2019 by the judicial system. The next month, lawyers for Abu Zubaydah, a detainee whose torture and waterboarding in secret prisons was among the most notorious of the Bush years, filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging his detention.<\/p>\n<p>The progress of that case has been anything but prompt. While more than 100 Guantanamo detainees have been released since then, and the military tribunals of even more high-profile detainees like 9\/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed are moving forward in Guantanamo\u2019s courtrooms, the federal judge hearing Zubaydah\u2019s case has failed to rule on even the preliminary motions.<\/p>\n<p>The seemingly intentional inaction has left even experienced court observers baffled. Richard W. Roberts, the U.S. District court judge handling the suit, is not a particularly slow-moving judge. His median time for resolving entire cases is slightly over two years; Zubaydah\u2019s initial plea has already been pending 6 years 9 months and 12 days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truth-out.org\/news\/item\/30963-incommunicado-forever-gitmo-detainee-s-case-stalled-for-2-477-days-and-counting\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since being seized in a raid in Pakistan in 2002, Abu Zubaydah has had his life controlled by American officials, first at secret sites, where he was tortured, and since 2006 in a small cell in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. And, thanks to one of the strangest, and perhaps most troubling, legal cases to grow out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487,18,16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-154336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-war-terrorism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}