The former chief prosecutor at Guantanamo Bay testified for a defendant yesterday that Pentagon officials pressured him to hurry cases along and to prosecute high-profile detainees first for “strategic political…
A busy BigLaw rainmaker who has for nearly 30 years made time to promote the rights of armed services veterans “is a big, unresponsive government agency’s worst nightmare,” a California…
About 270 detainees held by the United States have been transferred to Afghanistan where they face trials without due process rights or longtime detention without a hearing.
In detailed discussions in the White House basement, top aides to President Bush micromanaged at least several torture sessions of terrorist suspects, starting in 2002, a major newspaper says.
As efforts to conduct military trials of terrorism suspects held at the Guantanamo Bay military prison inch forward, some suspects and their counsel are not optimistic about the process.
As the countdown continues toward controversial military trials starting next month for terrorism suspects being detained by the U.S. at Guantanamo Bay, two prominent law professors at major universities are…
A controversial case concerning an al-Qaida terrorism suspect who has been held in U.S. custody since he was 15 years old is being argued in Canada’s highest court today, where…
ABA President William H. Neukom is expressing “grave concerns” about coerced evidence, restrictions on lawyers and other aspects of the Guantanamo trial process.
Lawyers for four Kuwaitis being held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, say government prosecutors are violating standard legal ethics rules by contacting defendants whom they know…
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