Federal judge orders Pentagon to turn over Guantanamo videos
May 25, 2012
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Wednesday ordered the US Department of Defense (DOD) to turn over three videotapes depicting Kuwaiti Guantanamo Bay detainees being forcibly removed from their cells. The ruling came in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit file....... [more] 
Afghan Guantanamo detainee died in apparent suicide
May 18, 2012
On May 18, 2011, US Southern Command announced that a Guantanamo Bay detainee known as Inayatullah was found dead in his cell in an apparent suicide. In 2007, the families of two other Guantanamo detainees who committed suicide filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the United States and 24 governme....... [more]
Gates claimed some Guantanamo detainees posed release threat
May 8, 2012
On May 8, 2010, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates claimed that a number of the detainees housed at the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities would pose a new threat to the US if they were returned to their home countries. Though Gates advocated closing the facility at Guantanamo earlier in his tenure....... [more]
9/11 suspects arraigned at military tribunal
May 6, 2012
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four of his alleged co-conspirators were arraigned on Saturday at a military tribunal in Guantanamo Bay for their involvement in the 9/11 attacks. The hearing was prolonged by numerous interruptions from the defendants. The defendants face charges of conspiracy, murder i....... [more]
ACLU seeks access to 9/11 trial testimony
May 3, 2012
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on Wednesday filed a motion in the Guantanamo Bay military court seeking access to hear what methods the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) used when interrogating the five alleged 9/11 conspirators. The ACLU acknowledged that the US government will likely as....... [more]
Supreme Court to rule on ineffective assistance of counsel
April 30, 2012
The US Supreme Court granted certiorari Monday in Chaidez v. United States to rule on an ineffective assistance of counsel claim. In 2010, the court held in Padilla v. Kentucky that the Sixth Amendment guarantee of effective assistance of counsel requires a criminal defense lawyer to advise a non-ci....... [more]
US soldier charged with releasing classified docs ruled competent to stand trial
April 29, 2012
On April 29, 2011, a US Army panel of experts declared that Pfc. Bradley Manning was competent to stand trial for leaking a classified video and classified State Department documents to the controversial website Wikileaks in 2010. Manning's pre-trial hearing concluded in December 2011, after which M....... [more]
IACHR Guantanamo Case a Hallmark for Human Rights
April 27, 2012
JURIST Guest Columnist J. Wells Dixon, Senior Staff Attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, and attorney for Guantanamo detainee Djamel Ameziane, says that the IACHR's acceptance of his case is instrumental in promoting US responsibility for the well-being of detainees at Guantanamo Bay....... [more]
Padilla appeals dismissal of unlawful detention suit to Supreme Court
April 24, 2012
US citizen and convicted terrorist Jose Padilla filed a petition for certiorari with the US Supreme Court on Monday, appealing the dismissal of his lawsuit against US officials for allegedly illegally detaining him at a military jail in South Carolina. Padilla's lawsuit claims nominal monetary redre....... [more]
Attorney General Holder denied 'selective' interrogation memo release
April 23, 2012
On April 23, 2010, US Attorney General Eric Holder testified before the House Appropriations subcommittee that he was willing to release as much information as possible about interrogation techniques used on Guantanamo Bay detainees and defended the decision from accusations of political gamesmanshi....... [more]
Uighur Guantanamo detainees released to El Salvador
April 20, 2012
The Pentagon announced on Thursday that two Uighur detainees were released from the US detention center at Guantanamo Bay to be transferred to El Salvador, where they have chosen to resettle. They are being released pursuant to a 2008 order by the US District Court for the District of Columbia. An e....... [more]
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