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Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, addresses a press conference concerning his findings during a country-wide visit to the U.S. Credit:UN ...

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A federal appeals court is comparing a military decision at Guantanamo Bay to a nonsensical 19th-century poem by Lewis Carroll.

Nine Pakistani films - among the 45 movies screened at the South Asian Film Festival here - drew attention and appreciation here with their themes of fundamentalism and society vis-a-vis the West.

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - This was a sleepy Navy outpost before the U.S. began using it to hold prisoners in the wake of the Sept.

Detainees 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.

Filmmaker Alex Gibney said on Thursday he was seeking more than $1 million in damages from a company he says failed to properly distribute and promote his Oscar-winning feature documentary "Taxi to the Dark ...

Vice President Dick Cheney's top adviser on Thursday refused to claim any responsibility for the adoption of harsh interrogation methods following the Sept.

Description: A former Taliban fighter has provided a gripping first-hand account of being secretly trained by members of the Pakistani military, paid $500 a month and ordered to kill foreigners in Afghanistan.

By Sean Reed, Rocky Mountain Collegian, Colorado State U. Posted: 6/26/08 Section: Opinion Columns Justice is making a comeback.

Terrorism suspect Omar Khadr can see a document in which a Canadian official was told of his mistreatment by U.S. authorities at Guantanamo Bay, a Canadian judge ruled on Wednesday.

Over the objections of senior lawyers across the military, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, acting on the advice of the Pentagon's General Counsel William "Jim" Haynes, approved the use of 15 harsh ...

The new Guantanamo Bay detention center commander, who was at the Pentagon on Sept.

Hearings for terror suspects before US military tribunals in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are going ahead despite a US Supreme Court ruling that affirmed the detainees have a right to challenge their detention in a ...

"We already have very robust procedures that actually exceed what prisoners would get under the Geneva Conventions," said Kyndra, "so I think the Supreme Court made a mistake stepping into a system that was ...

Kuala Lumpur, June 20 : The Malaysian government has come under attack once again over the stringent Internal Security Act , not from a detainee's family but from the Malaysian Bar Council chief.

Sweden will deport a former prisoner from the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba to Albania, Swedish Migration Board officials said.

A federal appeals court announced Monday that it has overturned the Pentagon's classification of a Guantanamo Bay detainee as an enemy combatant.

In the first Guantanamo Bay case to be reviewed, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled in favor of Huzaifa Parhat, a Chinese Muslim known as a Uighur, undermining the basis for his more than six years in detention.

The appeals court directed the U.S. military to release Parhat, to transfer him or to hold a new proceeding promptly in light of the appeals court's ruling.

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson told a House panel he thought leadership failed at the highest levels of the Pentagon, in the vice president's office and perhaps even in the Oval Office, The Washington Times reported ...

In this image reviewed by the U.S. Military, soldiers in a Humvee patrol the perimeter of the Camp Delta detention compound at Guantanamo Bay U.S. Naval Base in Cuba June 6, 2008.

Where government can lock people up and throw away the key - answerable to no one at all - there liberty does not dwell.

"As Omar Khadr's war crimes trial pushes forward this week, his lawyers are furiously working behind the scenes to establish a rehabilitative program that would ease the Toronto detainee back to freedom.

By Michael Abramowitz Senior lawyers inside and outside the Bush administration repeatedly warned the White House that it was risking judicial scrutiny of its detention policies in Guantanamo Bay if it did not ...

A furious debate over terrorism, security and the rule of law broke out on Tuesday as the presidential campaigns of Sens.

In a makeshift prison in the north of Poland, Al-Qaida's engineer of mass murder faced off against his Central Intelligence Agency interrogator.

Submitted by SHNS on Fri, 06/20/2008 - 15:28. Without question, Boumediene v. Bush is a landmark legal decision in America's war on terrorism.

One possibility would be to use it as a training site for US Marines and for joint missions with US allies in Latin America, Capt Mark Leary told visiting journalists.

When U.S. guards frog-marched Abdul Salam Zaeef through the cellblocks of Guantanamo, detainees would roar his name, "Mullah Zaeef! Mullah Zaeef!" Zaeef, in shackles, looked at the guards and smiled.

The Bush administration wants to rewrite the official evidence against Guantanamo Bay detainees, allowing it to shore up its cases before they come un ...

The forceful language of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy's decision in the case granting detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp the right to contest their confinement in federal court is the voice of a Supreme ...

American Senator John McCain aligned himself with critics of the Bush administration during a speech to a Canadian audience Friday, vowing to close down Guantanamo Bay prison and be a crusader for the ...

Former terrorist suspects detained by the United States were tortured, according to medical examinations detailed in a report released Wednesday by a human rights group.

The Bush administration wants to rewrite the official evidence against Guantanamo Bay detainees, allowing it to shore up its cases before they come under scrutiny by civilian judges for the first time.

The government has stood behind the evidence for years. Military review boards relied on it to justify holding hundreds of prisoners indefinitely without charge. Justice Department attorneys said it was thoroughly and fairly reviewed.

Now that federal judges are about to review the evidence, however, the government says it needs to make changes.

A federal appeals court ruled on Friday it cannot act on an appeal by a young Canadian until after his case has been decided at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp where he faces charges of murdering a U.S. soldier ...

Sweden denied asylum Thursday to a Chinese Muslim who was released from Guantanamo Bay after the U.S. acknowledged he was not a terrorist.

Habeas corpus, the Great Writ, is a legal principle first articulated in medieval England that gives a prisoner the right to be brought before a judge to hear the charges and challenge his imprisonment.

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba - An Afghan prisoner subjected to 14 consecutive days of sleep deprivation at Guantanamo interrupted his war crimes hearing on Thursday to ask why a Harvard ...

Last week the Supreme Court ruled that Guantanamo Bay detainees could challenge their detention in federal court.

A former military officer who served as chief of staff to former Secretary of State Colin Powell on Wednesday said Vice President Dick Cheney probably knew the U.S. military was using torture on Iraqi detainees ...

The report's first recommendation is that the government of Canada demand the immediate termination of the U.S. military commission's proceedings against the 21-year-old Canadian.

In a hearing today on the Hill, Michigan Senator Carl Levin -- who is also the Democratic head of the Senate Armed Services Committee -- tied US interrogation policies to former Bush Secretary of Defense Donald ...

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American soldiers herded the detainees into holding pens of razor-sharp concertina wire, the kind that's used to corral livestock.The guards kicked, kneed and punched many of the men until they collapsed in ...

The recent Supreme Court decision affirming that Guantanamo prisoners have habeas corpus access in domestic civil courts raises vital questions on the judiciary's role in checking executive power.

' The U.S. military hid the locations of suspected terrorist detainees and concealed harsh treatment to avoid the scrutiny of the International Committee of the Red Cross, according to documents that a Senate ...

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A military attorney for one of the Sept. 11 defendants at Guantanamo Bay predicted on Tuesday the Pakistani would at best see only a sliver of classified evidence and would be convicted ...

Medical examinations of former terrorism suspects held by the U.S. military at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, found evidence of torture and other abuse that resulted in serious injuries and ...

Military lawyers warned against the harsh detainee interrogation techniques approved by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in 2002, contending in separate memos weeks before Rumsfeld's endorsement that they could be illegal, a Senate panel has found.

The investigation by the Senate Armed Services Committee also has confirmed that senior administration officials, including the Pentagon's then-general counsel William 'Jim' Haynes, sought information on a program involving military psychologists early on to devise the more aggressive methods _ which included the use of dogs, making a detainee stand for long periods of time and forced nudity, according to officials familiar with the findings.

PEMBERTON, N.J. - Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain on Friday denounced the U.S. Supreme Court decision granting broader legal rights to the detainees at Guantanamo Bay as 'one of the worst ...

Up to 2,500 demonstrators held a boisterous rally in London's Parliament Square on Sunday as U.S. President George W. Bush dined with his British counterpart nearby.

In a stinging rebuke to President Bush's anti-terror policies, a deeply divided Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign detainees held for years at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have the right to appeal to U.S. ...

The Guant namo Bay detention center will not close today or any day soon. But a Supreme Court decision Thursday stripped away the legal premise for the remote prison camp that officials opened six years ago in ...

On June 12, the United States Supreme Court decided by a close 5-4 majority that so-called "enemy combatants" held at the U.S. prison camp in Guantanamo Bay have the right to challenge their detention in United ...

The militants crept up behind Mohammed Akhtiar as he squatted at the spigot to wash his hands before evening prayers at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.They shouted Allahu Akbar God is great as one of them ...

BACKGROUND: Guantanamo Bay detainees are entitled to a judicial review of their imprisonment, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

The imminent start of war-crimes trials at Guantanamo Bay was thrown into doubt Thursday when the Supreme Court ruled that detainees have constitutional rights and can appeal to civilian courts.

SAN JUAN, Puerto RicoA U.S. military judge today rejected a request to postpone an upcoming pretrial hearing for a Guantanamo prisoner following a Supreme Court ruling that detainees at the base in Cuba have ...

John McCain on Friday lambasted the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to grant greater rights to prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, aligning himself with George W. Bush at a time when the unpopular president is seen as a ...

Jun. 13--Trials by military commission at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will go forward despite a U.S. Supreme Court decision granting war-on-terror detainees recourse to federal court, the Bush administration said ...

The Supreme Court's landmark Guantanamo Bay decision Thursday could free foreign prisoners while it inflames Capitol Hill.

A Supreme Court ruling that grants terrorist suspects confined at Guantanamo Bay the right to challenge their detention in civilian courts bolsters the arguments of the only detainee on U.S. soil classified as ...

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the Constitution to challenge their detention in U.S. civilian courts.

The justices handed the Bush administration its third setback at the high court since 2004 over its treatment of prisoners who are being held indefinitely and without charges at the U.S. naval base in Cuba. The vote was 5-4, with the court's liberal justices in the majority.

Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for the court, said, "The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times."

MIAMI -- Critics of the war crimes tribunal at Guantanamo Bay have consistently assailed the coerced confessions that may be used as evidence against the defendants and have repeatedly charged that the ...

The U. S. Pentagon abruptly replaced the military judge in the Omar Khadr case yesterday after he chastised the prosecution at a recent Guantanamo Bay hearing.

It's a "myth" that Canadian Maher Arar was sent to Syria under a contentious extraordinary rendition program, a top U.S. State Department official said Tuesday.

Sign at entrance of Camp Delta Human Rights Watch says more than two-thirds of the people held at the Guantanamo Bay prison are housed in inhumane conditions that could damage their mental health.

House Democrats sent a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey Friday requesting that he appoint a special prosecutor to investigate whether White House officials, including President Bush, violated the War ...

The U.S. ambassador to Kuwait said Monday that although Kuwaitis account for only a small percentage of foreign insurgents fighting in Iraq, their funding from the oil-rich country remains a concern that must ...

Highlights of some high-profile Supreme Court cases, among the 22 that remain to be decided before the court begins its summer recess scheduled in late June: - Rights of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay naval ...

New York, June 9: Human Rights Watch, a US-based group of lawyers, journalists, academics, and HR experts, has said that America should immediately implement the recommendations of a new UN report calling on ...

The Pentagon urged interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to destroy handwritten notes in case they were called to testify about potentially harsh treatment of detainees, a military defense lawyer said Sunday.

United Nations experts on child rights criticized the United States on Friday over detention of juveniles at Guantanamo, in Afghanistan and Iraq, and voiced concern that some may have suffered cruel treatment.

Kabul: An American military spokesperson has dismissed any suggestion that a new prison planned for Afghanistan is intended to receive prisoners from Guantanamo Bay, the detention centre in Cuba that is facing ...

A U.N. committee on child rights criticized the United States on Friday for filing war crimes charges against Guantanamo Bay detainees who were picked up as minors.

By Josh White Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, June 4, 2008; Page A16 More than 6 1/2 years after devastating suicide attacks against the United States launched the Bush administration's fight against ...

London, June 5 : In a startling revelation, a top UK legal official has said that in exchange of millions of dollars, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf had allowed a large number of his countrymen to be put ...

The confessed mastermind of the Nine-Eleven attacks and four other alleged plotters go on trial today before a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Almost seven years after terrorists hijacked airliners and used them as missiles to kill 2,973 people, five men who allegedly plotted the attacks face a military tribunal Thursday.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher on Wednesday dismissed the idea that taunting terrorism suspects with women's panties is a form of torture.

Attorney General Michael Mukasey, defending military commissions to prosecute suspected terrorists, told federal judges Wednesday the upcoming trials will be "in the best traditions of the American legal ...

The British branch of human rights organization Reprieve has accused the United States government of using naval military ships to detain in secret and interrogate alleged terror suspects.

U.S. military prosecutors at Guantanamo Bay have filed war-crimes charges against a former British resident accused of plotting with al-Qaida to bomb apartment buildings in the United States, the Pentagon said ...

Canadian Omar Khadr, the only remaining Western prisoner at Guantanamo Bay, is well-liked by his U.S. guards, according to reports by Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs.

KARACHI (Reuters) - An American lawyer pleaded on Monday for the Pakistan government to intervene on behalf of a prisoner being held at the U.S. detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

Zachary Katznelson, a senior counsel for Reprieve, a charity that campaigns for prisoners facing injustice, made the plea on behalf of Saifullah Paracha, a 60-year-old Karachi-based businessman, who has been held in detention for almost 5 years.

Suspected of having contacts with al Qaeda, Paracha was detained in Bangkok in July 2003 and taken to Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan, before being transferred to Guantanamo Bay in 2004.

The United States has operated more than a dozen "floating prisons" to hold and question suspected Islamist extremists as part of its so-called "war on terror", a British rights group said Monday.

US accused of operating secret "floating prisons" Holding and interrogating war on terror suspects 26,000 people currently detained without trial THE US has reportedly been accused of operating secret "floating ...

REGISTER STAFF REPORTS Posted at 19:57 on 05/31/2008 Four Iowans were among 34 activists sentenced Friday for protesting the United States government's treatment of Guantanamo Bay detainees.