Canada's refusal to accept Guantanamo Uyghurs reflects weakness in relationship with China
Mehmet Tohti : "Kory Teneycke, spokesman for Prime Minister Stephen Harper, told the Associated Free Press that "Canada is not looking to take any detainees from Guantánamo...In the case of the Uighurs and other Guantanamo...
Failure to release torture photos a symptom of larger "rule of law" problems
Kevin Zeese : "The images of torture and abuse of prisoners are vivid. They are an embarrassment to a nation that led the efforts for the Geneva Convention which made torture and other war...
Australia to consider third US petition to accept Guantanamo detainees
Australian Foreign Affairs Minister Stephen Smith confirmed on Friday that Australia is considering the Obama administration's request that Australia accept six of the Uighur Guantanamo detainees who have already been cleared for release. Smith...
JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says that President Obama's recent announcement that his administration will reform rather than abolish the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay threatens to undercut his highly-touted efforts to bring change...
The Man Who Knew Too Much? A Convenient Suicide in a Libyan Prison
JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says the claimed "suicide" in a Libyan prison of al-Qaeda operative Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi is too convenient for too many people who have besmirched American honor in...
The US is planning on accepting into the country up to seven Chinese Uighur Muslims currently being held at the Guantanamo Bay detention center, according to the Los Angeles Times...
Federal judge rejects jurisdiction over Guantanamo force-feeding case
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia denied Tuesday a petition by two Guantanamo Bay detainees to stop the force-feeding imposed on them during their hunger strike,...
China reiterated its request Thursday that all Chinese Muslims, or Uighurs, held at Guantanamo Bay be returned to China after the prison's closing. Spokesperson for the Chinese Foreign Ministry [official website, in...
JURIST Contributing Editor Michael Kelly of Creighton University School of Law says the pending closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison by executive order of new US President Barack Obama pointedly leaves open the politically and legally troubling question of what...
The US military announced on Monday that the Guantanamo Bay hunger strike has increased to 42 detainees. The number was believed to be 30 last Thursday. The military attributes the increase to the recent seven year...
