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NEWS ABOUT: Boumediene v. Bush

Boumediene v. Bush stories: 7 news summaries
Interview

 Gitmo Detainee: I Was Tortured 


Jun 8, 09 11:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - In 2002, Lakhdar Boumediene was a relief worker who cared for orphans. “I’m a normal man,” he says. So when the US shackled him and flew him to Guantanamo Bay, he thought he’d be freed soon. “They have CIA, FBI. Maybe one week, two weeks,... More »

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(Newser) - Lakhdar Boumediene, the Guantanamo detainee who took on the Bush administration in a landmark Supreme Court case, was released today and flown to France to be reunited with relatives, the Washington Post reports. He was named the plaintiff in Boumediene v. Bush, the Supreme Court case that extended... More »

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France • Guantanamo Bay • hunger strike • Boumediene • Boumediene v. Bush • Lakhdar Boumediene

2 Dozen Gitmo Prisoners Win Court Cases

All but 3 who got hearings were found wrongfully detained

Jan 19, 09 4:26 AM CST
(Newser) - At least 24 detainees at Guantanamo Bay have won cases in federal court or military tribunals voiding their detention in the last 3 months. While the Bush administration has insisted that the prisoners who remain at Gitmo are "the worst of the worst," there was apparently no legal... More »

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Taliban • enemy combatants • Guantanamo Bay • habeas corpus • Afghanis • Guantanamo prisoners • Boumediene v. Bush

5 Ordered Freed From Gitmo on Feds' Lack of Evidence

Governments' classified case insufficient to justify further detention

Nov 20, 08 1:50 PM CST
(Newser) - A federal judge today ordered the release of five Guantánamo Bay inmates, ruling that the US government’s evidence was not enough to justify their continued detention, the New York Times reports. The men were among the inmates who won a Supreme Court verdict in June that found they... More »

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Bush administration • War on Terror • Guantanamo Bay • habeas corpus • Guantanamo prisoners • federal judges • Boumediene v. Bush • evidence

Gitmo Detainees Begin Court Challenge

Six Algerian prisoners are first to contest detention by US

Nov 7, 08 8:15 AM CST
(Newser) - A federal judge opened the first habeas corpus hearing for prisoners at Guantanamo Bay yesterday, five months after the Supreme Court ruled that they may challenge their detention in court. The judge closed the court after opening statements were made, saying that the evidence was classified, the New York Times... More »

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Guantanamo Bay • habeas corpus • Guantanamo prisoners • terror suspects • detainees • Boumediene • Boumediene v. Bush

ANALYSIS

Mukasey Can't Reach Dems Across Gulf on Terror Law

Disgust, distrust on policy has attorney general's push falling on deaf ears

Jul 24, 08 4:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - The refusal by Democrats to give Michael Mukasey a hearing during a Hill appearance yesterday is evidence of a “huge and poisonous gulf” between the legislative and executive branches that threatens to delay action on judicial process until 2009, Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball write in Newsweek. The attorney... More »

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Congress • habeas corpus • Jerrold Nadler • Michael Mukasey • Boumediene v. Bush

 Bush Could Decide by 
 Weekend to Close Gitmo 

Supreme Court's decision has forced administration's hand

Jul 3, 08 3:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush could decide by Saturday to close Guantanamo Bay as a prison for high-value detainees, insiders tell ABC. There is “generally wide agreement” among Bush's top advisers—Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates among them—that Gitmo should eventually be shuttered, but the landmark recent Supreme Court decision undermines... More »

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Robert Gates • Condoleezza Rice • Cuba • Guantanamo Bay • habeas corpus • US Supreme Court • George W. Bush • Boumediene v. Bush

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