3 hrs ago | Reuters
Guantanamo mail screeners ordered to keep mum
Mail inspectors at the Guantanamo prison camp will be held in contempt of court if they disclose the contents of attorney-client mail without permission, the chief judge in the U.S. war crimes tribunals has ruled.
6 hrs ago | Amnesty International USA
The 10th Anniversary of 'Law of War' Detentions at Guantanamo:
US failure to address as an ongoing human rights issue and to ensure accountability and remedy for past abuses in the counter-terrorism context "As the United States seeks to advance human rights and fundamental freedoms around the world, we do so cognizant of our own commitment to live up to our ideals at home and to meet our international human ... (more)
10 hrs ago | The Guardian
Shaker Aamer, the Briton still locked in Guantanamo, will not be forgotten | Gareth Peirce
When the allied invasion of Afghanistan began in October 2001 with the bombing of Kabul, among the families forced to flee were the Aamers.
17 hrs ago | Daily Kos
Abbreviated pundit round-up: Guantanamo inmate passes his 10th anniversary without charge or trial
Ten years is a long time. That a former British resident has spent every single one of the intervening days between February 2002 and today in a cell in GuantA namo, without answering a single charge or having had one day in court, is an affront to the concept of justice.
Solar-powered lights serve as sentries where U.S. Marines once faced-off along the Cuban frontier.
GOP report questions Guantanamo detainee releases
Facing domestic political pressures, the Bush and Obama administrations released or transferred 600 terror suspects deemed an acceptable threat from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, only to find that 27 percent re-engaged in terrorist or insurgent activities, according to a report by Republicans on the investigations panel of the House ... (more)
Suit challenges new Guantanamo prison mail rule
A lawyer for a Guantanamo prisoner charged in the Sept. 11 attack has filed suit against the prison commander, arguing a new rule subjecting legal mail to a security review is unconstitutional and amounts to illegal "intelligence monitoring" of a U.S. citizen.
Suit challenges new Guantanamo prison mail rule
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico - A lawyer for a Guantanamo prisoner charged in the Sept. 11 attack has filed suit against the prison commander, arguing a new rule subjecting legal mail to a security review is unconstitutional and amounts to illegal "intelligence monitoring" of a U.S. citizen.
New challenge to Guantanamo prison mail rules
A lawyer for a Guantanamo prisoner charged in the Sept. 11 attack has filed suit to overturn a new rule that requires a security team to review legal mail at the prison.
Dr. Aldo Chircop is the project director for the Local Integrated Coastal Management Capacity Building in Southeast Cuba.
APNewsBreak: GOP report questions release of terror suspects from Guantanamo
Facing domestic political pressures, the Bush and Obama administrations released or transferred 600 terror suspects deemed an acceptable threat from the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, only to face the challenge that 27 percent re-engaged in terrorist or insurgent activities, according to a report by Republicans on a House Armed Services ... (more)
State Department: Guantanamo lawyers can't question Yemeni leader
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is in the United States with full diplomatic immunity, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's legal adviser has written the Pentagon, and should not be compelled to provide sworn testimony for the Guantanamo war court.
Cuban 'migrants' held at Guantanamo facing restrictions
Rayarena : Asombra, as usual your observations on right-on-the-dime. castro is a liar.
US judge: Baroque artwork to return to man's heirs
A federal judge has ordered the return of a 16th Century Baroque painting depicting Christ carrying the cross to the heirs of a Jewish man who died shortly before the German occupation of France in World War II.
Jesse 'Younes Abdullah Muhammad' Morton Complains that US Prisons No Better than Guantanamo
Our old friend Jesse "Younes Abdullah Muhammad" Morton has confirmed that he is back on US soil after being extradited from Morocco last October .
Italy frees former Guantanamo detainee
An Italian appeals court has overturned the terrorism conviction of a Tunisian man who had spent nine years in the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo, Cuba.
Pentagon denies 9/11 suspects trial extension
A Pentagon legal official refused Friday to extend an important deadline for defense lawyers for the five Guantanamo Bay prisoners charged in the Sept.
Cuba: Protest Against Hunger Striker's Death
Pedazos de la Isla posts a video of dissidents protesting the death of political prisoner Wilman Villar Mendoza in a neighborhood of Guantanamo.
GOP assails plan to transfer 'high level' Guantanamo detainees
Members of Congress are reacting sharply to a plan being considered by the White House to transfer abroad five of the most dangerous prisoners from Guantanamo Bay as a gesture to the Taliban in advance of Afghanistan peace talks.