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The US House of Representatives voted 212-206 Wednesday in favor of a defense spending bill that includes a provision preventing Guantanamo Bay detainees from being transferred to the US...

JURIST Guest Columnists Lawrence Friedman and Victor Hansen of New England Law Boston say that the Ghailani trial demonstrated that, even without evidence obtained from questionable interrogation techniques used on terrorism suspects, the government can make and prove its case.......

JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that while pundits on either side of the political spectrum may criticize the trial of or verdict against Ahmed Ghailani, the case shows that US civilian...

The first civilian trial of an ex-Guantanamo detainee ended on Wednesday with the jury convicting Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani on only one of 285 counts of conspiracy, murder and attempted murder for...

A judge for the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday denied a defense motion for mistrial in the trial of ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani ....

The US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Tuesday heard opening statements in the first civilian trial of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee. An attorney for Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani [GlobalSecurity...

A federal judge on Wednesday barred key US government witness Hussein Abebe from testifying in the trial against former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ghailani . Judge Lewis Kaplan of the US District...

The first civilian trial of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee began Wednesday, as Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani appeared in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York ...

A federal judge on Tuesday refused to dismiss charges against former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ghailani , ruling that his Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial was not...

A federal judge on Thursday ruled that former Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Ghailani is not suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and is therefore fit to stand trial. The issue of Ghailani's psychological state...