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  • August 2007

    • Brit Resident to Be Released From Gitmo

      Reuters  |  Aug 10, 07 5:07 AM CDT

      Brit Resident to Be Released From Gitmo

      (Newser) - One of five British residents has been cleared for release from Guantanamo, the US announced, following demands from authorities in London that all the prisoners be freed. The man, whose name and nationality were not disclosed, won't be returned to his homeland because of concerns he would be mistreated there, according to a US spokeswoman. More »

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      Great Britain  • Gordon Brown  • Guantanamo Bay  • Guantanamo prisoners  • detainee  • prisoners  • military tribunal

  • July 2007
  • June 2007

    • Supremes Will Hear Gitmo Cases

      Reuters  |  Jun 29, 07 10:25 AM CDT

      Supremes Will Hear Gitmo Cases

      (Newser) - Two Guantanamo Bay detainees will have their say before the Supreme Court, which today unexpectedly agreed to hear their cases in the term that begins this fall. The prisoners want permission to challenge their indefinite confinement in federal court. The high court had rejected an identical appeal in April, and the reversal is the first such action in decades, Reuters reports. More »

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      Bush administration  • US Supreme Court  • White House  • Guantanamo Bay  • detainee  • habeas corpus

    • White House Splits Over Closing Gitmo

      Washington Post  |  Jun 22, 07 5:03 AM CDT

      White House Splits Over Closing Gitmo

      (Newser) - President Bush is under mounting pressure to shut the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, but top aides remain deeply divided over the fate of 375 detainees there. Bush has said he wants to the close the prison, but WaPo reports senior officials including Dick Cheney are opposed to shipping detainees to the US where they'd have expanded rights. More »

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      George W. Bush  • al-Qaeda  • Guantanamo Bay  • Dick Cheney  • prison  • detainee  • Steny Hoyer  • repatriation

    • CIA Helped Devise Torture Tactics

      Salon  |  Jun 21, 07 6:25 PM CDT

      CIA Helped Devise Torture Tactics

      (Newser) - The CIA apparently colluded with the US military to develop torture techniques for interrogating terrorist suspects, Salon reports. The program was based on methods originally designed to teach American special forces how to withstand abuse if captured. While the military's role in this "reverse engineering" had been previously exposed, the CIA link is a revelation.  More »

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      US military  • Pentagon  • CIA  • torture  • terrorist  • prison  • detainee  • Abu Ghraib  • POW  • Geneva Convention

    • 6 Guantanamo Detainees Sent Home

      Associated Press  |  Jun 20, 07 12:19 PM CDT

      6 Guantanamo Detainees Sent Home

      (Newser) - Six prisoners held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base have been returned to their home countries—four to Tunisia and two to Yemen—the AP reports. One detainee's lawyer opposed the transfer on the grounds that he may face abuse for nonviolent political activism. More »

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      Guantanamo Bay  • Guantanamo prisoners  • detainee  • Yemen  • Tunisia

    • Gitmo Charges Against 2 Are Dismissed

      New York Times  |  Jun 5, 07 9:01 AM CDT

      Gitmo Charges Against 2 Are Dismissed

      (Newser) - The system of military tribunals for Guantanamo detainees was thrown into chaos yesterday when military judges separately struck down charges against two detainees. The rulings were both on technicalities: the detainees, one 15 years old when captured 5 years ago, were designated "enemy combatants" and not "unlawful enemy combatants" as the law requires. More »

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      Guantanamo Bay  • detainee  • military tribunal  • enemy combatants  • international law

  • May 2007
  • April 2007

    • Supreme Court Blocks Gitmo Detainees

      Associated Press  |  Apr 30, 07 2:04 PM CDT

      Supreme Court Blocks Gitmo Detainees

      (Newser) - The Supreme Court will not hear the cases of two Guantanamo detainees who sought to challenge the government's policy on military tribunals, it announced today. But it will hear arguments this fall in the case of a Texas death row inmate, a Mexican national whose appeal was supported by the Bush administration and the Mexican government. More »

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      US Supreme Court  • Guantanamo Bay  • trial  • court  • detainee  • military tribunal  • justice

    • Gitmo Prisoners Go On Hunger Strike

      New York Times  |  Apr 9, 07 11:41 AM CDT

      Gitmo Prisoners Go On Hunger Strike

      (Newser) - Thirteen detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention center are on hunger strike, protesting conditions at a maximum-security block known as Camp Six, where 160 inmates are locked in their 8-by-10-foot cells for at least 22 hours a day. It's the first major strike since early 2006, when Gitmo commanders started placing protesting detainees in restraint chairs to force feed them. More »

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      Guantanamo Bay  • US Army  • prison  • human rights  • detainee  • hunger strike

  • March 2007

    • They're Lucky They're Not in Guantánamo

      Guardian (UK)  |  Mar 30, 07 11:57 AM CDT

      They're Lucky They're Not in Guant&aacute;namo

      (Newser) - Iran's British captives may be embarrassed and anxious, but they  appear to be better off than many detainees in American and British hands, observes novelist Ronan Bennett. "They have not been hung from a forklift truck and photographed for the amusement of their captors. They have not had electrodes attached to their genitals or been set on by attack dogs." More »

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      Iran  • Guantanamo Bay  • torture  • hostage  • detainee  • captives

    • Gitmo Detainee Pleads Guilty

      New York Times  |  Mar 27, 07 6:33 AM CDT

      Gitmo Detainee Pleads Guilty

      (Newser) - David Hicks became the first person convicted under President Bush's much-maligned military tribunal system after entering a surprise guilty plea  to charges of providing material support to terrorists. The contentious proceedings may prove a new source of controversy, however, as the judge excluded Hicks' stwo civilian lawyers from court and shot down questions about his impartiality. More »

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      George W. Bush  • al-Qaeda  • Australia  • Guantanamo Bay  • War on Terror  • politics  • court  • detainee  • military tribunal  • conviction  • guilty plea  • David Hicks

    • British Torture Trial Backfires

      Daily Telegraph (UK)  |  Mar 14, 07 9:30 AM CDT

      (Newser) - The prosecution of a group of British soldiers for mistreating Iraqi detainees—one of whom died under questioning—has backfired on the British government. Four soldiers have been acquitted of various crimes after a three-year investigation. Now the knives are out for leading members of the British government over the botched prosecution. More »

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      Iraq  • Great Britain  • United Kingdom  • scandals  • torture  • detainee  • Abu Ghraib  • British troops

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