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Powell urges immediate closure of Guantanamo detention facilities

June 11, 2007 12:46:00 PM

Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Sunday that he favors the immediate closure of all detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay , adding that he would also "get rid" of the framework created...

January 21, 2007 10:26:00 AM

A UK House of Commons committee called Sunday for the British government to work with the United States to develop an alternative to the Guantanamo Bay prison and speed up its closure. The panel, seven of...

January 11, 2007 07:49:00 PM

Protests against the US military prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay Cuba continued Thursday as the facility marked its fifth anniversary. In Cuba itself, peace activists, including former detainee Asif Iqbal ,...

October 20, 2006 10:34:00 AM

The US Department of State's top legal advisor asked Friday that the UK and other foreign governments to help repatriate detainees at Guantanamo Bay rather than calling for closure of the prison. In an interview [excerpt,...

October 13, 2006 08:01:00 AM

The US State Department has rejected Britain's latest call for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention center, saying the prison would remain open as long as necessary and was needed to house "some very dangerous...

October 6, 2006 04:47:00 PM

A top US Marine Corps lawyer has called for an investigation of alleged abuses of detainees at Guantanamo Bay after reviewing a sworn statement filed by a Marine paralegal who said that last month she spoke...

September 25, 2006 08:01:00 AM

JURIST Guest Columnist Benjamin Davis of the University of Toledo College of Law says that the overall theme of the "compromise" military commissions bill seems to be the highly-problematic creation of a unique legal regime for a specific group of...

September 17, 2006 11:40:00 AM

UK Attorney General Lord Goldsmith called on the US Saturday to close down Guantanamo Bay at an International Bar Association event in Chicago. While acknowledging that the September 11 attacks [JURIST news...

July 6, 2006 07:19:00 PM

Five special rapporteurs making up the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention in the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights on Thursday called on the US to set a date for...

June 27, 2006 08:57:00 AM

John Bellinger , the top legal adviser for the US State Department , said Monday that the US would like to close its detention camp at Guantanamo Bay , but must first make sure that...

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