Guantanamo, Cuba News

The Metropolitan Police is launching an investigation into allegations of torture made by a British former prisoner in Guantanamo Bay.

The controversy of where to house inmates from Guantanamo Bay comes to the Heartland.

Even as the White House pledges to empty the prison camps at Guantanamo, a 30-year-old prisoner is so afraid of returning to his native Tajikistan that he is asking to stay at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba.

Obama administration lawyers said Tuesday at a Senate hearing that detainees prosecuted by military commissions should have some of the same constitutional rights as American citizens tried in civilian criminal courts.

Apparently, Congress has detected some footnotes to Emma Lazarusa famous poem engraved inside the Statue of Liberty: a oeGive me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.a But dona t bother sending anyone released from detention at Guantanamo Bay.

A former Guantnamo detainee has launched a legal attempt to prevent the US from destroying evidence that he claims proves he was abused while being held at the detention camp.

Lawyers for an alleged Sept. 11 plotter held at Guantanamo want to inspect secret CIA overseas prisons, saying in court papers Monday the conditions in the so-called black sites may yield insight into a mental disorder that has raised questions about whether he is competent to stand trial.

Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian held at the U.S. naval base in Cuba since 2006 accused of involvement in the bombing of U.S. embassies in Africa, is depicted in this courtroom sketch of his arraignment, in New York in this June 9, 2009 file photo.

The head of the Archdiocese for the Military Services USA crossed between the Navy base at Guantanamo and Guantanamo province, worshipping in both places.

In this Nov. 13, 2005, photo maintenance employees replace a burned out light in a hallway inside the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Ill.

U.S. President Barack Obama is still struggling with what to do with the most dangerous terror detainees at the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

By PAMELA HESS and NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press Writers Thu Jul 2, 9:17 pm ET WASHINGTON Newly released Defense Department documents and memos about the first years of operation of the jail at the U.S. base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba , portray a chaotic and sometimes violent operation that its own commanders described as dysfunctional.

LAWYERS for a Guantanamo detainee charged with terrorism crimes have asked the US government to preserve overseas locations where he was subjected to 'physical and psychological ill-treatment' at secret CIA prisons known as 'black sites' until they can inspect them.

Attorneys for a Guantanamo Bay prisoner asked a federal judge Wednesday to exclude as evidence against him the statements he made during at least 57 interrogations since his capture, saying they were the result of torture and other coercion.

WASHINGTON: Approximately 229 detainees from "about two dozen countries" are still held in Guantanamo, according to the latest Pentagon figures.

The White House said Monday that President Barack Obama "absolutely" believed he could still close the Guantanamo Bay terror camp by next January, despite a political storm over how to deal with detainees.

A United Nations official says U.S. terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, must be tried or released and those who used torture should be held accountable.

Ireland is examining the possibility of taking in two Uzbek prisoners identified for resettlement from the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, Foreign Minister Micheal Martin said on Friday.

Stymied by Congress so far, the White House is considering issuing an executive order to indefinitely imprison a small number of Guantanamo Bay detainees considered too dangerous to prosecute or release, two administration officials said Friday.

The U.N. human rights chief said on Wednesday the United States still had much to do to close the chapter of its Guantanamo Bay prison for terrorism suspects and should itself accept detainees for resettlement.