Rights groups raise alarm over surge in executions in Saudi Arabia
Human Rights Watch and the Middle East Democracy Center raised alarm on Monday over the increasing use of the death penalty without due process in Saudi Arabia this year, calling the practice a means to crush peaceful dissent. They highlighted the executions of Turki al-Jasser, Abdullah al-Shamri, Salman al-Odah, Muhammad al-Ghamdi, and the mass execution [...]
Saudi Arabia authorities urged to release detained scholar Salman al-Ouda
Amnesty International on Monday renewed its urgent call for the immediate and unconditional release of prominent Saudi cleric and reformist scholar Salman al-Ouda, who has been held in solitary confinement since his arrest in September 2017. The organization condemned the continued detention of Alodah as “unjust” and “politically motivated,” citing a broader crackdown on dissent [...]
US Department of Justice files sealed opposition in Guantanamo Habeas case
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday submitted a sealed document in opposition to the habeas corpus petition of Tariq Ba Odah, despite a 2009 government security review that cleared Ba Odah for...
The US Department of Defense (DOD) on Wednesday announced the release of Fouzi Khalid Abdullah Al Awda from the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, after nearly 13 years of imprisonment without a...
The Status of Guantanamo Detainees in a War that May Never End
J. Wells Dixon, Center for Constitutional Rights
Guantanamo detainee demands release following Afghanistan pull out
Kuwaiti Guantanamo Bay detainee Fawzi Odah filed suit on Monday in the US District Court for the District of Columbia alleging that he should be freed from prison upon US withdrawal from Afghanistan, citing international...
Kuwait lawyer sues government officials for release of Guantanamo detainees
A Kuwaiti lawyer announced Tuesday that he has filed a lawsuit against Kuwait's prime minister and other government officials in order to pressure authorities to facilitate the release of two Kuwaiti detainees at Guantanamo Bay ....
The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Wednesday released a partially redacted opinion in Latif v. Obama, overturning the release order for Yemeni Guantanamo detainee Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif...
A judge for the US District Court for the District of Columbia on Thursday ruled against the release of a former high-ranking Taliban official at Guantanamo Bay despite a request from Afghanistan's...
Federal judge overturns release of Yemeni Guantanamo detainee
A judge for the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Friday overturned the release of Yemeni Guantanamo Bay detainee Hussein Salem Mohammed Almerfedi . After his...
