Red Cross chief urges US military to allow outside evidence in Afghan detainee hearings
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) President Jakob Kellenberger on Monday urged the US military to allow the introduction of outside evidence during enemy combatant review hearings at the Bagram Temporary Internment Facility . Kellenberger, who...
Afghan court trying ex-US detainees based on questionable evidence: rights group
A criminal court in Afghanistan is trying detainees previously held by the US detainees at Bagram Air Base and Guantanamo Bay and is relying primarily on allegations and evidence provided by the US military, the New...
Aisling Reidy : "On March 13, the defense for Omar Khadr had some fairly basic objectives - to get the government to disclose evidence, such as notes relating to the interrogation of their client when...
Moazzam Begg : "In January this year, a training document produced by the Canadian foreign ministry, which referred to Guantanamo Bay, listed the United States as a country known to practice torture. Despite this...
Report from Guantanamo: prisoner calls prosecution unjust, refuses representation
Sahr MuhammedAlly : "On March 12, 2008, Mohammed Jawad , a twenty-three year old Afghan prisoner, announced to the military commission judge that he has "been brought here illegally." Jawad is accused of attempted...
An Afghan journalist working as a cameraman for Canadian television network CTV has been designated as an enemy combatant , a US military spokesperson said Wednesday. US officials alleged that Jawed Ahmad [SAJA report; CPJ...
Red Cross announces video teleconference system for US Afghan detainees
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the US military have installed a video teleconferencing system at Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan to allow detainees held at the base to speak with loved ones,...
Federal judge grants detainee request for advance notice of transfer
US District Judge Gladys Kessler of the DC District Court has ruled that Haji Rohullah , an Afghan citizen detained by the US military at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan, is entitled to...
US military violated CSRT rules on exculpatory evidence: CCR
Lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed a petition Wednesday under the Detainee Treatment Act (DTA) challenging the enemy combatant designation of Guantanamo Bay detainee Mohammed Sulaymon Barre, saying the US military violated governing...
Two alleged CIA rendition victims join ACLU lawsuit against Boeing subsidiary
Two men who allege that the CIA detained and tortured them in foreign prisons Wednesday joined a lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) against San Jose-based Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen Dataplan [corporate...
