A military officer warned that a suspected enemy combatant being held in a U.S. naval brig was nearing insanity because of isolation and sensory deprivation, according to newly released documents.
Although she was still in law school, Mahvish Khan had a critical skill that most trained attorneys representing detainees at the U.S. military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay didn’t—as the…
Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed questioned a Guantanamo judge about his religion, his reading habits and his views on torture in a hearing yesterday on his impartiality.
The U.S. Supreme Court has asked for briefs and set a short deadline for the parties to address whether the justices should reconsider their decision that it is unconstitutional to…
Unable to win a five-day war that Russia has waged, Georgia is seeking help from the World Court, as the International Court of Justice, at the United Nations in The…
Congress should abolish the U.S. Supreme Court-created exception to the Federal Torts Claims Act that prohibits members of the military from suing the federal government for tortious government conduct, according…
A military officer who sat on the jury that gave the driver for Osama bin Laden a relatively light sentence says it was not intended as a message to the…
A tactic to soften up Guantanamo Bay terrorism suspects, in which they were frequently moved from cell to cell to disorient them and prevent them from sleeping, was banned in…
Prosecutors sought a prison term of at least 30 years for Salim Ahmed Hamdan, the Osama bin Laden chauffeur convicted this week of some, but not all, of the terrorism…
Onetime Air America host Randi Rhodes’ comments about a military contractor at Abu Ghraib are protected under the First Amendment, the Richmond, Va., 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled…
President George W. Bush has approved an Army request to put a private to death, giving the go-ahead to what would be the first execution by the U.S. military in…
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