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Guantanamo detainee victim of mistaken identity: US government

December 2, 2015 12:05:43 PM

According to an official US government document , a man who fought for the Taliban in Afghanistan and has been held without charge at Guantanamo Bay for 13 years was a victim of mistaken identity. Mustafa Abd-al Qawi Abd-al-Aziz...

October 30, 2015 02:52:55 PM

The US Department of Defense (DOD) on Friday announced that the last remaining British inmate, Shaker Aamer, has been released and returned to the UK after extensive review by the Guantanamo Review Task...

October 5, 2015 07:37:48 AM

The last remaining British Guantanamo detainee is on a hunger strike, the Daily Mail reported Saturday. Shaker Aamer told the Daily Mail via his lawyer that he is still subject to physical abuse despite reports that he will...

October 2, 2015 06:20:06 PM

A lawyer for former Guantanamo detainee Younous Chekkouri said Thursday that the Moroccan government is not upholding the diplomatic assurances it provided to the US State Department regarding the release of his client, namely that...

September 27, 2015 10:06:32 AM

The Obama administration on Friday notified Congress of its plan to release Guantanamo Bay inmate Shaker Aamer to the United Kingdom next month. Aamer, who was captured in Afghanistan in 2001, is the final British resident held...

September 19, 2015 10:56:12 AM

Justice June Ross of the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta on Friday ruled that former Guantanamo Bay inmate Omar Khadr could visit his family in Toronto for two weeks and do so without an electronic monitoring...

July 1, 2015 09:35:27 AM

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday appointed Lee Wolowsky the new envoy to lead the Obama administration's efforts to close the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay . Wolowsky is...

June 28, 2015 06:50:18 PM

The US Periodic Review Board (PRB) announced Friday that one of the longest-held detainees at Guantanamo Bay may now be released to his home country of Saudi Arabia. Abdul Rahman Shalabi has been on a...

May 17, 2015 12:15:06 PM

JURIST guest columnist Peter Jan Honigsberg from the University of San Francisco School of Law discusses possible release of detainees from Guantanamo Bay...On April 24, JURIST reported that Shaker Aamer, a citizen of Saudi Arabia (SA) and a British resident...

May 15, 2015 09:45:51 AM

The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday rejected the Canadian government's bid to have former Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr declared an adult offender. The case concerned whether the eight-year war crimes sentence Khadr received...

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Martin Luther King Jr. awarded Nobel Peace Prize

On October 14, 1964, civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Read Dr. King's acceptance speech, delivered in Oslo on December 10 of that year.

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On October 14, 1994, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, and Yassar Arafat, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, shared the Nobel Prize for Peace. The three men were awarded this honor for the 1993 Oslo Accords in which Israel and the PLO agreed to peace and mutual recognition. The Accords also granted the Palestinians general self-government in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Learn more about the 1994 Nobel Prize for Peace and the three men who shared it.