The government is considering granting new hearings for Guantanamo detainees to determine whether they are unlawful enemy combatants who should continue to be held.
Lawyers at a Vermont firm that represents clients being held in the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay and in Afghanistan believe the federal government may be wiretapping their law…
The Bush administration argues in a U.S. Supreme Court brief (PDF posted by SCOTUSblog) that detainees at Guantanamo Bay “enjoy more procedural protections than any other captured enemy…
A federal judge has barred the government from transferring a Guantanamo detainee to his home country of Tunisia, where he says he could be tortured or killed.
A second Army officer has submitted a court affidavit questioning the fairness of the process used to decide whether detainees at Guantanamo Bay are enemy combatants.
Clive Stafford Smith is a lawyer who serves as the legal director of Reprieve, a British human rights agency that represents prisoners at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler this week ordered the U.S. not to transfer a detainee in Afghanistan without giving his attorney at least 30 days’ notice.
Fourteen terrorism suspects transferred to Guantanamo Bay from secret CIA prisons have been told they have the right to a lawyer and ABA assistance in locating one.
A special military appeals court is giving Guantanamo prosecutors a chance to prove that detainees are unlawful enemy combatants in a ruling that paves the way for war crimes trials.
Four former Guantanamo Bay military prison detainees who claim American officials abused them there haven’t had any luck trying to sue the U.S. government over alleged constitutional rights violations. But…
The U.S. military is investigating how several prisoners at Guantanamo Bay came to be wearing unauthorized underwear, and among those it is questioning are their attorneys.
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