Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp News

Hassan, who has been held in Guantanamo since 2002, alleges that he has been force-fed more than 5,000 times since 2007 [IBT report] in an effort to end his hunger strike.

The Pentagon is now terming the refusal to eat by Muslim inmates at the GuantA namo Bay prison not as "hunger striking," but as "long term non-religious fasting," the Miami Herald reported.

I was raised in an America engaged in World War II. We gasped in horror at the cruel and inhumane behavior of those evil Japs and Nazis and were so glad to live in a country which did not physically abuse prisoners.

We're five days into a hunger strike by immigrants being detained behind bars by Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Tacoma's Northwest Detention Center.

A lawyer for a group of detainees at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay Cuba is accusing the military of torture.

The interior of an unoccupied communal cellblock is seen at Camp VI, a prison used to house detainees at the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay In December, the US Defense Department shifted to considering the year-long hunger strike among Guantanamo detainees as "long term non-religious fasting", according to a forced-feeding protocol document.

Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. leaves the Senate chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 11, 2014, after saying that the CIA's improper search of a stand-alone computer network established for Congress has been referred to the Justice Department.

A Tennessee man was to appear in court Tuesday on charges of kidnapping and murdering 20-year-old nursing student Holly Bobo, an indictment that came almost three years after her highly publicized disappearance.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor will be joined in her March 24 presentation at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey by Thomas Wilner, an international attorney who successfully represented Guantanamo detainees before the Supreme Court in 2004 and 2008.

A Yemeni inmate at Guantanamo Bay is taking the military's practice of force-feeding hunger strike participants.

In what is being hailed as a "historic legal challenge" to the United States government, a U.S. court will hear for the first time from a Guantnamo detainee who claims that force-feeding at the U.S. military prison amounts to torture.

There will be no more hunger strikes at Guantanamo Bay, according to a new document first reported on Monday night.

Sen. Rand Paul is insistent he can spread the appeal of the GOP to young people with a foreign policy that sounds like President Obama on steroids , drug reform/legalization and use of a bunch of pop culture references.

Annie Machon is a former intelA liA gence officer for the UK's MI5, who resigned in 1996 to blow the whistle.

A new lawsuit has been filed detailing the inhumane practices of force feeding that the US is using at Guantanamo.

In January 2009, Barack Obama entered the Oval Office projecting idealism and proud to be the constitutional law professor devoted to turning democratic principles into action.

After seven years the American Psychological Association recently decided to close an ethics case against a Guantanamo psychologist without taking disciplinary action.

If the annual Conservative Political Action Conference is any indication, conservative media won't be abandoning their scandal-mongering about the 2012 attacks in Benghazi any time soon.

On Monday, Naval Base San Diego was bustling with families welcoming home sailors aboard the Navy's newest ship, USS Coronado.

The motion is the first successful use of the so-called European citizens' initiative , which was introduced by the Lisbon treaty and allows for 1 million EU citizens to assign the European Commission with a task, by way of their signatures.