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.
A justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1940s has had a major influence in several recent opinions, thanks to one of his former clerks—U.S. Supreme Court Justice John…
What many contend was an excessive use of executive power by President George W. Bush is suddenly the topic of the month. An insider who happens to be a law…
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