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detainee stories: 62 news summaries

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ANALYSIS

No Clear Way for US to Prosecute Gitmo Prisoners

Experts split on whether to use federal courts or military commissions

Oct 29, 09 11:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama is edging closer to his goal of closing the Guantanamo Bay prison: Congress has approved detainee trials on US soil and the National Defense Authorization Act, passed yesterday, attempts to repair the damaged legality of President Bush’s military-commissions system. But hurdles remain, with legal scholars split on... More »

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Bush administration • terrorism • military tribunal • Guantanamo Bay • detainee • Human Rights Watch • Guantanamo prisoners • Obama administration • President Obama • National Defense Authorization Act


 Iran Allows 
 Swiss Envoys 
 Visit With 
 Detained Hikers 

Policy reversal may be gesture of goodwill ahead of nuclear talks

Sep 29, 09 4:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - Iran has changed its policy on three detained US hikers, allowing Swiss diplomats—who represent American interests in Iran—to visit them. Officials have been denied access to the three Americans since they were detained in July after crossing the border from Iraqi Kurdistan into Iran. Tehran’s reversal may... More »

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Iraq • Iran • United Nations • Tehran • Kurdistan • Switzerland • United States • detainee • UN Security Council • hikers • Shane Bauer • Joshua Fattal • Sarah Shourd

 Iran Admits Protester 
 Was Beaten to Death 

First official acknowledgment of post-election state violence

Sep 1, 09 7:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - A man arrested in the upheaval following Iran's presidential election was beaten to death in jail, Iranian media reported yesterday—offering the first official acknowledgment that a detained protester died after the disputed vote. Officials had originally said the man died of an illness, but a coroner's report said he... More »

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Iran • Tehran • prison • detainee • political prisoner • Ayatollah Ali Khamenei • Iranian election • Iranian protests

(Newser) - A Guantanamo inmate recently released to his native Afghanistan after almost 7 years of detention plans to sue the US for damages, the AP reports. Mohammed Jawad is considered one of the youngest prisoners held at the Cuban base—he claims he was 12 at the time he was captured,... More »

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Afghanistan • torture • Department of Justice • Guantanamo Bay • lawsuit • detainee • punitive damages • Mohammed Jawad • Eric Montalvo

(AP) - A newly declassified CIA report says interrogators threatened to kill the children of a Sept. 11 suspect. The document, released today by the Justice Department, says one interrogator said a colleague had told Khalid Sheikh Mohammed that if any other attacks happened in the United States, "We're going to... More »

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CIA • terrorism • September 11 • Guantanamo Bay • threats • detainee • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • interrogation

 Judge Orders Gitmo Detainee 
 Returned to Afghanistan 

But Mohammed Jawad may still face conventional prosecution

Jul 30, 09 2:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Guantanamo Bay inmate may be released to Afghanistan next month after successfully challenging his detention under habeas corpus, the Washington Post reports. US District Judge Ellen Huvelle ordered Mohammed Jawad’s release based on the dodgy evidence against him—mainly, a confession allegedly obtained by threatening to kill Jawad... More »

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Afghanistan • Congress • human rights • Guantanamo Bay • detainee • Guantanamo prisoners • confession • Mohammed Jawad

(Newser) - Ireland has agreed to resettle two Uzbek detainees from the US’ Guantanamo Bay detention center, Ireland’s foreign minister tells the Irish Times. The detainees are among those who are not considered a threat, but can’t be returned to their home countries. Dermot Ahern, a longtime proponent of closing... More »

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rendition • Guantanamo Bay • Ireland • detainee • Uzbekistan • detainees • Dermot Ahern

(Newser) - British troops called Iraqi detainees "apes," beat them so that their moans of pain sounded like an "orchestrated choir," and forced them to dance like Michael Jackson, a public inquiry into the death of one of the detainees heard yesterday. The inquiry panel was told... More »

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Iraq • Basra • detainee • British Army • British military • inquiry • Iraq war • Baha Mousa

Detainees, Once Acquitted, May Still Die at Gitmo

Like Bush, Obama administration argues for indefinite detention

Jul 8, 09 6:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Detainees held at Guantanamo Bay and other military prisons may not be freed even if a US commission acquits them of all charges, an Obama administration official testified yesterday. The Defense Department rep told a Senate committee that detainees would be assessed on an individual basis and that prisoners might... More »

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Guantanamo Bay • detainee • Lindsey Graham • Senate Armed Services Committee • detainees • military commissions • war powers • Obama administration • indefinite detention

(Newser) - Lynndie England is trying to rebuild some semblance of a normal life, but her past continues to haunt her, she tells the AP. “It’s my face that's always recognized,” the former Army Reservist and poster child for Abu Ghraib abuse said of trying to get a job—... More »

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Abu Ghraib • US military • abuse • prisoners • detainee • US Army • biography • West Virginia • Lynndie England • Iraq war

 Senate OKs $106B for Wars 


Jun 18, 09 5:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Senate today overwhelmingly passed a bill authorizing $106 billion to fund the nation’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Hill reports. It now goes to President Obama for his expected signature. The vote had been delayed by wrangling over how to keep detainee abuse photos under wraps.... More »

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Senate Democrats • US military • Senate Republicans • IMF • detainee • Iraq war • Afghanistan war • US Senate • supplemental funding • torture photos • military funding

(Newser) - The youngest detainee at Guantanamo Bay has been freed to his native Chad, Reuters reports. Mohammed El Gharani was seized in Pakistan in 2001 at 14, and accused variously of being an al-Qaeda operative, messenger, and combatant. Five months ago a judge found the evidence against him insufficient. “That... More »

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Afghanistan • Chad • Pakistan • US military • Guantanamo Bay • detainee • al-Qaeda • Reprieve • Mohammed El Gharani

Colorado Town Would Welcome Gitmo Inmates

Supermax is already home to Unabomber, '20th hijacker'

Jun 4, 09 7:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Members of Congress have protested President Obama's efforts to move Guantanamo inmates to US prisons, but residents of Florence, Colo., say they wouldn't mind taking in a few enemy combatants. The supermax prison near town already holds some of the world's most infamous terrorists: a 1993 World Trade Center assailant,... More »

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prison • Guantanamo Bay • detainee • federal prison • Colorado • Guantanamo prisoners • Supermax

Europe Balks
at Taking Gitmo Detainees

After US Congress raises objections, allies change tune

May 29, 09 6:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration has intensely lobbied its European allies to allow at least 50 Guantanamo detainees to resettle overseas. But as the US Congress rebels against the president's plans to move inmates to federal prisons, reports the Washington Post, an already skeptical Europe has strengthened its objections. "If the... More »

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Germany • Guantanamo Bay • detainee • Guantanamo prisoners • Uighurs • Obama administration

Reuters Journo Held by US in Iraq 8 Months

No charges against photographer; military cites insurgent ties

May 24, 09 7:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Amid the outrage over journalist Roxana Saberi’s detention in Iran, the US is holding a Reuters photographer in Iraq without charges, the Los Angeles Times reports. Ibrahim Jassam, 31, has been held since September “as the result of his activity with a known insurgent organization,” said a... More »

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Iraq • US military • detainee • photographers • journalist • photojournalist • Committee to Protect Journalists • Roxana Saberi • Ibrahim Jassam

Supreme Court Dumps Suit Vs. Mueller, Ashcroft

9/11 detainee faulted FBI head, former AG over confinement rules

May 18, 09 10:29 AM CDT
(AP) - The Supreme Court says a lawsuit against FBI Director Robert Mueller and former Attorney General John Ashcroft by a former Sept. 11 detainee cannot go forward. The court today overturned a lower court decision that let Javaid Iqbal's lawsuit against the high-ranking officials proceed. Iqbal is a Pakistani Muslim who... More »

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FBI • John Ashcroft • Robert Mueller • September 11 • lawsuit • detainee • US Supreme Court • attorney general • Javaid Iqbal

ANALYSIS

Obama's Photo Flip-Flop Has Political Roots

White House wasn't prepared for scale
of torture outrage

May 14, 09 6:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama's about-face on the release of photographs of abused detainees has angered civil libertarian groups, who have denounced the president for turning back on campaign promises. But as Politico writes, the move demonstrated how carefully the administration is treading on an issue that has become explosive, subsuming George Bush's... More »

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national security • Barack Obama • torture • abuse • detainee • photograph • harsh interrogation • Obama administration • torture photos

Courts Unlikely to Block Release of Torture Pics

White House has slim hopes for appeal, may look to Congress

May 14, 09 6:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Barack Obama has said he wants to prevent the publication of photos depicting abuse of  detainees, but legal experts say the White House has an uphill battle in reversing the court decision to release them. The administration thinks that the Bush-era lawyers did not make a sufficiently strong case in... More »

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Barack Obama • torture • Freedom of Information Act • Joe Lieberman • abuse • detainee • photograph • Lindsey Graham • civil lawsuits • Obama administration

updated

 Obama Reverses, 
 Will Block Release  
 of Abuse Photos 

In reversal, president says images would endanger US troops

May 13, 09 1:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama has reversed position and will oppose the release of abuse photos of detainees in US custody, the Washington Post reports. "The publication of these photos would not add any additional benefit to our understanding of what was carried out in the past by a small number of... More »

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Iraq • Afghanistan • torture • American Civil Liberties Union • abuse • detainee • photograph • harsh interrogation • decision • Obama administration • President Obama • Jay-ZTV

Shrink Waterboard 'Experts'
Racked Up $1K a Day

Operation's architects lacked training in conducting interrogations, say CIS records

May 1, 09 4:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two US psychologists with no training in conducting interrogations boasted of earning $1000 a day designing and helping to implement use of waterboarding techniques on CIA detainees, reports ABC News. Bruce Jessen and Jim Mitchell, former military officers, are considered the architects of the interrogation operation that Barack Obama has... More »

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CIA • torture • Guantanamo Bay • prisoners • detainee • interrogation • waterboarding • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • detainees • Bruce Jesson • Jim Mitchell

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