Federal court hears further evidence on denied petitions of Bagram detainees
The US District Court for the District of Columbia heard arguments Monday on whether US courts could hear foreign nationals' challenges to their detention by the US military at Bagram Air Force Base (Bagram) [official website; JURIST...
It was reported Monday that the US will retain control of non-Afghan detainees at Parwan Detention Center at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, despite plans to transfer control of the facility...
JURIST Guest Columnist Leonard Cutler of Siena College says that President Obama did not keep his promise to make the country's counterterrorism policy more consistent with constitutional principles and international law, and that it remains to be seen whether his...
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ruled Friday in Al Maqaleh v. Gates that detainees held at Bagram Air Force Base in Afghanistan cannot bring...
Bagram detainees allege torture at secret US prison in Afghanistan: BBC
Nine Afghan witnesses have claimed that they were held and tortured in a secret US prison at the Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, according to a BBC report Thursday. The witnesses say that they...
International human rights officials toured the new US detention facility in Parwan, Afghanistan, at the edge of Bagram Air Base on Sunday. The new facility , which has room for 1,400 detainees, is part of the...
Federal judge lets Afghanistan detainees habeas challenges proceed
Judge John Bates of the US District Court for the District of Columbia ruled Thursday that three detainees being held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan can proceed with...
JURIST Special Guest Columnist Jonathan Horowitz, Research Director at human rights and public interest investigation firm One World Research, says that notwithstanding the pending closure of the Guantanamo Bay prison and all the publicity surrounding that, if the US government...
Obama must not allow Bagram prison to remain an Afghan version of Guantanamo
Sahr MuhammedAlly : "On January 20th, President-elect Barack Obama will inherit the responsibility for thousands of detainees being held by the United States in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, and Iraq. Obama has already...
A national of Bahrain, two Pakistani nationals and one Iranian were transferred from US custody at Guantanamo Bay into the hands of their home governments over the weekend, the US Defense Department confirmed Monday....
