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28 min ago | Russia Taday

'Guantanamo detainees distrust military doctors' - open letter to Obama

Over 150 doctors and medical professionals have signed an open letter to US President Barack Obama calling for hunger-striking prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention center in Cuba to receive independent medical care.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, Cuba, World News,

Tue Jun 18, 2013

MetaFilter

We just think you are guilty so you must be ''detained indefinitely''.

The US government has finally released the names of 46 men being held in Guantnamo under the classification of " indefinite detainees " - terror suspects deemed too dangerous to release or move yet impossible to try in a civilian or even military court for reasons of inadequate or tainted evidence.

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Related Topix: Guantanamo Bay, US Military Prisons, US News, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison

Worcester Telegram & Gazette

5 Gitmo prisoners appear in court

Five Guantanamo Bay prisoners accused of helping orchestrate the Sept. 11 terror attack returned to court Monday as arguments resumed over preparations for a trial that remains distant.

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Related Topix: US News, US Military, US Navy, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison

Nanaimo Daily News

ICRC fights effort by defence in 9-11 case to get private Guantanamo reports

A lawyer for the International Committee of the Red Cross urged a military judge Tuesday to refuse a request for private reports that the organization compiled on conditions of confinement for the five Guantanamo Bay prisoners charged in the Sept.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, US News

Seattle Times

Judge urges new approach for Gitmo detainee cases

A federal appeals court judge Tuesday called on the president and Congress to consider a different approach to the handling of legal cases of Guantanamo Bay prisoners.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, US News, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals, Cuba, World News,

Common Dreams

Yemeni's Gather to Protest Detention, Torture in Gitmo

Relatives of Yemeni detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison shout slogans during a protest to demand the release of the detainees, outside the U.S. embassy in Sanaa June 17, 2013.

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Related Topix: World News, Yemen, Middle East, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, US News, Guantanamo Bay, Liberal Political News

NewsOn6 Tulsa

Yemen protesters demand Gitmo detainees release

President Barack Obama will appeal to Northern Ireland's youth to sustain their peace in his first opportunity to highlight the role the United States has played helping bring about reconciliation in the country.

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Related Topix: World News, Yemen, Middle East, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, US News, US Politics, Barack Obama

HawaiiNews

Amid Gitmo strike, ex-detainee tells of force-feed For more than...

For more than three months, the U.S. military has faced off with defiant prisoners on a hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay, strapping down as many as 44 each day to feed them a liquid nutrient mix through a nasal tube to prevent them from starving to death.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, Guantanamo Bay, US News, Cuba, World News,

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Russia Taday

No trial, transfer or release: Gitmo's 'indefinite detainees' identified

For the first time since President Obama took office Washington has publicly disclosed the names of inmates at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp classified as "indefinite detainees" - those who pose too great a threat to release but cannot be tried in court.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, US News, Guantanamo Bay, World News, Asia, Afghanistan, Terrorism

Santa Cruz Sentinel

US names prisoners slated for indefinite detention

A sign is seen outside the Courthouse One Expeditionary Legal Complex at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Monday, June 17, 2013, as Military Commission preliminary hearings reconvened in the case against Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and his fellow 911 co-conspirators.

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Related Topix: US News, George Bush, W.

Reuters

WikiLeaks breach included secret details on Guantanamo prisoners: official

The soldier accused of the largest release of classified data in U.S. history provided WikiLeaks with secret details of prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, threatening "serious" damage to national security, the prison's former commander testified on Monday.

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Related Topix: WikiLeaks, Prison, US News, Guantanamo Bay, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp

Fire Dog Lake

Bradley Manning's Trial, Day 7

Numerous stipulations of testimony are expected in military court at Fort Meade during the seventh day of Pfc.

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Related Topix: Fort Meade, US Military, US Army, Fort Meade, MD, Guantanamo Bay, US News, WikiLeaks, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison

Sun Jun 16, 2013

Washington Examiner

After House blocks Gitmo closure, Obama taps envoy

Under pressure to demonstrate a renewed commitment to shutter the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, President Obama has tapped a high-powered Washington attorney as one of two special envoys dedicated to brokering a deal to close the facility.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, US News, Guantanamo Bay

Sat Jun 15, 2013

Mercury-Register

Amid Gitmo strike, ex-detainee tells of force-feed

For more than three months, the U.S. military has faced off with defiant prisoners on a hunger strike at Guantanamo Bay, strapping down as many as 43 each day to feed them a liquid nutrient mix through a nasal tube to prevent them from starving to death.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, Guantanamo Bay, US News, Cuba, World News,

Boston.com

Amid Gitmo strike, ex-detainee tells of force-feed

Ahmed Zuhair poses for a picture in the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Friday, June 14, 2013.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, Guantanamo Bay, US News, World News, Saudi Arabia

Fri Jun 14, 2013

Daily Kos

The House Just Voted Against Ending Indefinite Detention. Which 13 Democrats Went Along?

This afternoon, the House of Representatives voted on a series of amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act .

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, US News, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, ACLU, US Politics, US Senate, Republican, Mike Crapo

National Review Online

Doctors Wrong to Help Guantanamo Hunger Strikers Strike

I previously weighed in on the controversy over force-feeding Guantanamo prisoners.

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The Virginian-Pilot

Tribunal for Cole attack case goes into secret session

The war crimes tribunal for the Guantanamo prisoner charged in the attack on the Norfolk, Va.-based Cole is going into a closed session dealing with a subject so secret even the defendant can't hear it.

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Related Topix: Guantanamo Bay, US News, Norfolk, VA, Terrorism, US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison

The Huffington Post

Medea Benjamin: Americans on Long-Term Hunger Strike to Close Gitmo Prison

Unreported in the mainstream press is the long-term hunger strike by a group of Americans in solidarity with the hunger strikers in Guantanamo prison.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, Prison, US News

Boing Boing

Inside GTMO's library

Charlie Savage writes in the New York Times of the books on offer to prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, which include a set of Indiana Jones novelizations, some Star Trek: TNG novels, Ender's Game, Arabic editions of Danielle Steele, and some Captain America graphic novels.

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Related Topix: US Military Prisons, Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp, US News, Prison