US to transfer non-Afghan Bagram detainees to home countries: report
A US military official has said that the US is in negotiations to transfer non-Afghan detainees at Bagram Air Base back to their home countries, Al Jazeera reported Tuesday. The military intends to...
Khadr seeking suppression of interrogation statements at military commission trial
Lawyers representing Omar Khadr , a Canadian currently being detained at Guantanamo Bay , say they will seek to suppress statements he made during interrogation at a preliminary hearing to begin Wednesday. The...
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...
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed habeas corpus petitions on behalf of four detainees held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. The first petition , filed Friday...
Federal jury convicts Pakistani woman of attempted murder of US personnel
A jury in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York on Wednesday convicted Aafia Siddiqui , a Pakistani woman with alleged ties to al Qaeda, on charges of attempting to murder...
JURIST Contributing Editor Jeffrey Addicott of St. Mary's University School of Law, formerly a Lieutenant Colonel in the US Army Judge Advocate General's Corps, says President Obama's inability to close the lawful Guantanamo prison is actually good news, but so...
US trial begins for Pakistani woman alleged to be al Qaeda agent
The federal trial of Aafia Siddiqui , a Pakistani woman with alleged ties to al Qaeda, began Tuesday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York . Siddiqui is charged ...
US Department of Defense officials Friday released the names of prisoners held at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, in response to a Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request filed by the...
Afghanistan authorities commit to taking over former Bagram detention facility
Afghan officials on Saturday signed a memorandum of understanding to delineate the process through which Afghanistan will take over the US military's Parwan Detention Center that was formerly housed at Bagram Air Base [official website; JURIST news...
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...
