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Lawyers for detainees being held at Guantanamo say as many as six of those being held were captured before they turned 18 . One lawyer says his client was not even 15 when captured, and...

US Representative Duncan Hunter , chairman of the House Armed Services Committee , said in an interview with Fox News Sunday that there are members of the Bush administration who want to close the Guantanamo Bay prison...

Republican Senator Mel Martinez has become the first major GOP lawmaker to call for the closure of the military terror detention camp at Guantamao Bay . Speaking Friday in Florida, Martinez, a former Secretary of...

Despite increasing pressure to close the US military prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Thursday that the government did not have any plans to shut down the facility...

Amnesty International Secretary-General Irene Khan said Thursday that the US could settle disagreements about alleged abuses of prisoners at its Guantanamo Bay detention camp and other facilities by opening them to inspections by human rights...

A day after President Bush dismissed as "absurd" an Amnesty International rights report condemning the US for ill-treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay and other facilities, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld ...

US Air Force General Richard Myers , Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has criticized an Amnesty International report comparing American treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay to the Soviet gulag where millions...

Santiago v. Rumsfeld, et al., United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, May 13, 2005 [upholding the US military's power to issue emergency stop-loss orders to keep soldiers on active duty beyond the time set in their service...

AP is reporting that the US Supreme Court has agreed to hear Rumsfeld v. Forum for Academic and Insitutional Rights, 04-1152, considering whether universities may ban military recruiters from their campuses without having federal funding withdrawn under...

The New York Times reported Sunday that a new military investigation of interrogation tactics used on terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has found several instances of abuse and humiliation of prisoners. The report by Air Force Lt. Gen....