Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp News

Three weeks after the first Obama-era parole board hearing at Guantanamo, a step toward realizing the White House goal of emptying the prison, the administration is still deciding what portions of a captive's plea for freedom the public may see.

Edmonton lawyer Dennis Edney, who has fought a decade-long battle for legal rights for Omar Khadr, received a prestigious human rights award Tuesday evening from the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights.

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia grilled the Department of Justice lawyers this week on the need for genital searches of Guantanamo detainees.

Will Edward Snowden get a hero's sendoff when he dies? Crikey 's writer-at-large hopes so, as he is a hero every bit as much as Mandela.

Republicans last week were celebrating a Harvard survey of "Millennial" voters -- those Americans between the ages of 18 and 29 -- showing that they have quite sharply turned their backs on both President Obama and his signature Affordable Care Act.

Lawmakers scurried Tuesday to avoid failing to pass a defense authorization bill for the first time in more than a half-century, as the nation's top military commander warned that further delay might imperil U.S. troops stationed around the globe.

Two U.N. special investigators say they fear that an Algerian man recently sent home from Guantanamo Bay against his will is in danger.

A commander's statement to "60 Minutes" about the extent that Guantanamo Bay prison guards are suffering from PTSD proved to be unsupported.

A federal court has declined to get involved in a dispute over medical care for an obese prisoner in declining health at the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

Top House and Senate negotiators unveiled a new agreement Monday on a sweeping military bill that includes Sen. Claire McCaskill's proposal to revamp the way the military deals with sexual assaults.

Some chief executives make promises that they know they probably cannot or will not keep.

Guantanamo Bay’s reputation as the dark heart of America’s war on terror tends to overshadow its more banal role as a naval base – filled with troops, their families and, to a lesser extent, their pretty, pretty cars.

Two congressional committees have agreed to make it easier for the Pentagon to transfer Guantanamo Bay prisoners to their home countries, surpassing a major hurdle in the Obama administration's ability to close the facility.

High school seniors this year were in kindergarten when the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001.

"That's rather provocative and offensive, isn't it?" Judge Thomas Griffith asked a government lawyer at a hearing of a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

A man who cut off his forearm to free himself after becoming trapped by a dislodged boulder in a Utah canyon is in jail after being arrested in Denver over allegations of domestic violence.

Princeton University is set to start the vaccination of nearly 6,000 students to try to stop an outbreak of type B meningitis.

December is Human Rights month and the 10th of December is Human Rights Day. What better time for President Obama to fulfill his promise of actually closing Guantanamo Bay and to initiate an investigation of violations of human rights by the US government post-9/11? The UN Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment ... (more)

A well-known lawyer based in St. Johnsbury travels across Vermont to Burlington this week to talk about representing a client who is imprisoned at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Chuck Hagel is in Afghanistan for his first official visit to the country since taking on the role of defense secretary.