Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp News

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

According the report, the OLC told the White House in a confidential memo that while federal courts may not extend all Constitutional rights to detainees, they were likely to find that the use of coerced statements would violate Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment [text]. The memo advised the White House to seek changes to the Military ...

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

Like his fellow prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Kuwaiti detainee Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed al-Kandari hoped that President Obama's election would finally bring justice.

It's the Fourth of July in America, and a U.S. citizen sits in solitary confinement in New York - and he hasn't even been convicted of a crime.

Andrew Walden at Canada Free Press writes: Bermuda and Palau may not be the only beautiful tropical islands to host illegal Islamist combatants being released from US custody at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station.

NEW YORK: Lawyers for the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be transferred to US soil for a civilian trial, set for September 2010, asked yesterday to see the secret CIA prisons where he was allegedly tortured.

Mohammed Al Gharani was the youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay. Now, seven years later, he has returned to Chad, his country of origin, after being freed and is adjusting to life without the fear of being brutalised.

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.

President Barack Obama said Thursday the Supreme Court was "moving the ball" on affirmative action in this week's decision favoring white firefighters in New Haven , Conn., but he added that the court had not ruled out the use of racial preferences in the future.

The Supreme Court has delayed for three months a decision on whether to hear arguments from a group of Chinese men who have been imprisoned at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp for more than seven years.

Lawyers for a Guantanamo detainee charged with terrorism crimes have asked the U.S. 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.

IRELAND HAS agreed to accept two Uzbek detainees at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba for resettlement in Ireland.

In five short months, it's become a tradition: you have to watch the news wires carefully on Friday evening, because that's when the Obama administration announces or leaks actions or decisions that they want to stay under the radar.

The results of the Czech EU presidency in the human rights area are contradictory, the Czech Amnesty International says in a report CTK has obtained.

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 Marine Corps has denied clemency to a Marine who pleaded guilty in the death of an Iraqi policeman but is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder despite pleas from his Navy doctor to release him because confinement is aggravating his mental condition.

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June 29, 2009 09:32 PM - New revelations about the government's mishandling of evidence in the high-profile terrorism case of Mississauga's Hassan Almrei are prompting calls for an independent investigation into Canada's spy service.